Protecting monitoring sites from lightning damage is an important consideration for equipment and stations that are deployed in areas that are prone to lightning strikes.
Lightning that does not directly strike a site may still cause damage by traveling through the ground and into buried sensors or cable. Proper planning for such events can help reduce the risk of lost data or expensive equipment replacement and site downtime.
Continue reading to find out several ways to help protect your systems from potentially damaging and costly lightning strikes.
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