Monthly Archives: April 2012

Lightning Monitoring Systems

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Detecting and Analyzing Lightning Strikes

Industrial systems are frequently subject to high loads due to lightning strikes, which can cause both direct and secondary damage. The LM-S lightning monitoring system detects and analyzes lightning surge currents, providing a way to evaluate the actual system load.

All industrial sectors are striving to maintain the availability of their systems and avoid costly unplanned downtimes. Lightning strikes are a frequent cause of system failures. Electrical and electronic components should be effectively safeguarded using surge protection.

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Phoenix Contact Wins Hermes Award

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Phoenix Contact has been awarded the 2012 Hermes Award for a system that measures lightning surges in lightning conductors and conveys operational status evaluations via the Internet to the remote control center.

The system is based on the electrical-optical Faraday effect and measures the full course of the lightning surge as well as the impact on each of the individual rotor blades.

 

Read the article on Drives & Control and the Hanover Messe websites

Remote Access to Energy Data

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Energy data collected using the Phoenix Contact EMpro family of measuring devices can now be monitored and analyzed remotely via a Web interface. This is made possible by two new Ethernet communication modules with an integrated Web server that allow measuring devices to be quickly and easily integrated into existing Ethernet networks.

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