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22/30454213 DC BS EN IEC 62561-2. Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 2. Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes, 2022
- 81_696e_CD (1).pdf [Go to Page]
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions
- 4 Requirements [Go to Page]
- 4.1 General
- 4.2 Documentation – installation instructions
- 4.3 Air-termination conductors, air-termination rods, catenary wires, earth lead-in rods and down conductors
- 4.4 Earth electrodes [Go to Page]
- 4.4.1 General
- 4.4.2 Earth rods
- 4.4.3 Couplers for earth rods
- 4.4.4 Earth conductors and earth plates
- 4.5 Marking
- 5 Tests [Go to Page]
- 5.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.2 Air-termination conductors, air-termination rods, catenary wires, down conductors, earth lead-in rods, earth conductors and earth plates [Go to Page]
- 5.2.1 General
- 5.2.2 Test for thickness of coating [Go to Page]
- 5.2.2.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.2.2.2 Copper coating thickness test [Go to Page]
- 5.2.2.2.1 Test description (magnetic method)
- 5.2.2.2.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.2.2.3 Zinc coating thickness test [Go to Page]
- 5.2.2.3.1 Laboratory test
- 5.2.2.3.1.1 Test description (Gravimetric method) [Go to Page]
- 5.2.2.3.1.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.2.2.3.2 Instrumental method test (Alternative)
- 5.2.2.3.2.1 Test description (Magnetic method) [Go to Page]
- 5.2.2.3.2.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.2.3 Bending and adhesion test for coated conductors [Go to Page]
- 5.2.3.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.2.3.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.2.4 Environmental test for coated materials [Go to Page]
- 5.2.4.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.2.4.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.2.5 Electrical resistivity test [Go to Page]
- 5.2.5.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.2.5.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.2.6 Tensile strength test [Go to Page]
- 5.2.6.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.2.6.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.3 Earth rods [Go to Page]
- 5.3.1 General
- 5.3.2 Test for thickness of coating on earth rods [Go to Page]
- 5.3.2.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.3.2.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.3.3 Adhesion test for copper coated earth rods [Go to Page]
- 5.3.3.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.3.3.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.3.4 Bending test [Go to Page]
- 5.3.4.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.3.4.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.3.5 Environmental test for coated earth rods [Go to Page]
- 5.3.5.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.3.5.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.3.6 Electrical resistivity test [Go to Page]
- 5.3.6.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.3.6.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.3.7 Tensile strength test [Go to Page]
- 5.3.7.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.3.7.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.3.8 Test for yield/tensile ratio (for copper coated steel earth rods only) [Go to Page]
- 5.3.8.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.3.8.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.4 Couplers for earth rods [Go to Page]
- 5.4.1 General
- 5.4.2 Compression test by mechanical means [Go to Page]
- 5.4.2.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.4.2.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.4.3 Environmental test [Go to Page]
- 5.4.3.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.4.3.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.4.4 Lightning current test
- 5.4.5 Tensile strength test [Go to Page]
- 5.4.5.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.4.5.2 Acceptance criteria
- 5.5 Marking test [Go to Page]
- 5.5.1 General conditions for tests
- 5.5.2 Acceptance criteria
- 6 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
- 7 Structure and content of the test report [Go to Page]
- 7.1 General
- 7.2 Report identification
- 7.3 Specimen description
- 7.4 Conductor
- 7.5 Standards and references
- 7.6 Test procedure
- 7.7 Testing equipment, description
- 7.8 Measuring instruments description
- 7.9 Results and parameters recorded
- 7.10 Statement of pass/fail
- Annex A (normative) Environmental test [Go to Page]
- A.1 General
- A.2 Salt mist treatment
- A.3 Humid sulphurous atmosphere treatment
- A.4 Ammonia atmosphere treatment
- Annex B (normative) Lightning current test [Go to Page]
- B.1 General
- B.2 Acceptance criteria
- Annex C (normative) Requirements and tests for air-termination conductors, air-termination rods, catenary wires and down conductors
- Annex D (normative) Requirements and tests for earth lead-in conductors, earth plates, earth rods and couplers for earth rods
- Annex E (normative) Flow chart of tests for air-termination conductors, air-termination rods, earth lead-in conductors, down-conductors, earth conductors and earth plates, see Figure E.1
- Annex F (normative) Flow chart of tests for earth rods
- Annex G (normative) Flow chart of tests of couplers for earth rods
- Annex H (normative) Material, configuration and cross-sectional area test [Go to Page]
- H.1 General conditions for tests
- H.2 Acceptance criteria for air-termination conductors, air-termination rods, catenary wires, earth lead-in rods and down conductors
- H.3 Acceptance criteria for earth electrodes
- Bibliography [Go to Page]