Protection against lightning and overvoltages not only ensures the safety of people, goods and equipment, but also ensures continuity of installation services and meet criteria of energy efficiency. Overvoltage protection extends the life of the equipment by more than 20%, which significantly reduces the volume of electronic waste. It also reduces the power consumption of the installations, all of which translates into cost savings and environmental sustainability.

Standards committees and power generation companies, both in Spain and the rest of the world, have standardised the use of overvoltage protectors by adopting overvoltage standards and even mandatory private technical specifications.

NQT, a pioneer in the design and manufacture of lightning and surge protection, has developed the new products in order to facilitate the selection of the best protector for every need and application, based on features and technical parameters such as:

• Type of overvoltage: transient and/or permanent overvoltages (TOV).
• Discharge capacity of transient overvoltages.
• Standard: IEC 61643 and UL 1449 3rd Ed.
• Type of communications/data connector.