Symptom Diagnostic Table

Drawn from among the many challenges and problems that SAE has tackled and solved over the years, the issues and symptoms provided in the table below will assist you in assessing and diagnosing your particular circumstances. Review the listings for those that match or resemble your symptoms or situation, then follow the links to our recommended solutions, products and services. Please don’t hesitate to call or eMail us with additional details relevant to your issue, or to describe a unique situation not covered in the table.

1. Lightning strike has destroyed equipment and property causing service disruptions. Can this be prevented in the future?

2. Plant equipment is not working properly due to excessive ambient electrical noise on the power and ground lines. Can this be fixed?

3. Our facility is experiencing strange or weird electrical behaviour, such as flickering lights or unexplained computer and server crashes.

4. Our microwave or broadcast radio transmissions are being corrupted by unexplained system noise. Can you assist?

5. Critical communication site must remain operational during extreme weather conditions, including lightning storms. Do you have a solution?

6. We are required to comply with regulatory requirements governing personnel safety and EMF exposure on our sites. Is this something you can help us with?

7. Strict new environmental regulations prohibit the use of the deep anode beds provided by our previous supplier. Will we be forced to use less efficient horizontal anodes?

8. We have been advised of stringent grounding requirements to reduce GPR (ground potential rise) in our new municipal public skating rink. The problem looks to be insolvable

9. Dangerous arcing initiated by lightning strikes poses a severe risk to personnel and is damaging equipment and infrastructure. Can the arcing be reduced or eliminated?

10. We require a quiet grounding system, free from ambient electrical noise, for use with sensitive scientific experiments. Can you provide this?

11. Critical airport navigational equipment is being taken off-line or damaged during electrical storm activity. Can you increase the percentage up-time?

12. We need to ground our systems in areas where the soil resistivity is extremely high (20,000 ohm-m or more). Can help us overcome this challenge

13. Our telephone switching centre is suffering a very high failure rate in equipment circuit boards, even though we have a grounding system and very little lightning. Is this a problem that you can solve?

14. We must shut down equipment during electrical storms or risk longer service outages to our clients due to lightning damaged equipment. Can you provide a solution that will allow us to keep our equipment running 24/7?

1. Lightning strike has destroyed equipment and property causing service disruptions. Can this be prevented in the future?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection and Lightning Protection
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2. Plant equipment is not working properly due to excessive ambient electrical noise on the power and ground lines. Can this be fixed?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection
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3. Our facility is experiencing strange or weird electrical behaviour, such as flickering lights or unexplained computer and server crashes.: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection
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4. Our microwave or broadcast radio transmissions are being corrupted by unexplained system noise. Can you assist?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection and Engineering & Project Delivery
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5. Critical communication site must remain operational during extreme weather conditions, including lightning storms. Do you have a solution?: Please see Grounding & Lightning Protection and Lightning Protection
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6. We are required to comply with regulatory requirements governing personnel safety and EMF exposure on our sites. Is this something you can help us with?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection and Engineering & Project Delivery
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7. Strict new environmental regulations prohibit the use of the deep anode beds provided by our previous supplier. Will we be forced to use less efficient horizontal anodes?: Please see Cathodic Protection and AEL Anodes
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8. We have been advised of stringent grounding requirements to reduce GPR (ground potential rise) in our new municipal public skating rink. The problem looks to be insolvable: Please see AC Mitigation and Engineering & Project Delivery
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9. Dangerous arcing initiated by lightning strikes poses a severe risk to personnel and is damaging equipment and infrastructure. Can the arcing be reduced or eliminated?: Please see Lightning Protection
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10. We require a quiet grounding system, free from ambient electrical noise, for use with sensitive scientific experiments. Can you provide this?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection
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11. Critical airport navigational equipment is being taken off-line or damaged during electrical storm activity. Can you increase the percentage up-time?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection and Lightning Protection
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12. We need to ground our systems in areas where the soil resistivity is extremely high (20,000 ohm-m or more). Can help us overcome this challenge: Please see Grounding & Lightning Protection and Lightning Protection
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13. Our telephone switching centre is suffering a very high failure rate in equipment circuit boards, even though we have a grounding system and very little lightning. Is this a problem that you can solve?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection and Lightning Protection
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14. We must shut down equipment during electrical storms or risk longer service outages to our clients due to lightning damaged equipment. Can you provide a solution that will allow us to keep our equipment running 24/7?: Please see Grounding & Electrical Protection and Lightning Protection
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Symptom Diagnostic Table

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