Surge Protection

The importance you attach to surge protection depends on your appetite for risk. Lightning protection systems safeguard systems against fire or electrical destruction and protect people from injury. A lightning strike discharges several hundred kilovolts of electricity.

Costly repairs, downtimes and sustained revenue losses can result in the absence of lightning arresters. Reason enough to protect yourself against damage by using VARITECTOR lightning and surge protection devices from Weidmüller.

With VARITECTOR we offer an extended family of surge arresters of various types for power distribution systems, electronic equipment as well as for measurement, control and regulating signals (MSR technology ), such as analogue and digital signal circuits, data interfaces like Ethernet Cat. 6. Protective elements are also available for your telephone system. Furthermore, we are an experienced partner at your side when it comes to lightning protection solutions and 600V, 1000V, 1200V and 1500V surge arresters for wind power and photovoltaic systems.

The products for lightning and surge protection can be used in conjunction with all Weidmüller Industrial Ethernet, power supplies, analogue signal processors as well as relays and semiconductor switches or combined to form countless complete solutions.