Fiber Optic Cable Circuit Also Need Lightning Protection

Some time ago a customer bought the fiber optical cables from our Fiberstore.com,
but he asked me if it can be used in frequent areas of lightning and if he needs to
lightning protection. Well, As for this problem, I give the customer this explanation.
Suitable cable barrier property makes its lightning protection is not so obvious as coax
and open cable circuit. And in the process of rapid development of fiber optic cables,
safety grounding is often misunderstood and even forgotten. With a large number of
adoptions of optical fiber cable, the situation of the fiber optical cable circuit from
lightning often occurs these years. Fiber optic cable circuit has a great deal of capacity
and the easiest links that be lightning struck is buried links, and it is also difficult to
repair, so once it is in trouble, will cause huge losses. This page mainly introduces the
fiber optic cable circuit lightning protection.

Fiber optic cable has no electrical conductivity, can protect from impact current, but
in order to male high capacity optical cables from environmental events, fiber optic
cables must have armored cable components and when electric line close to short and
a lighting strike, people will feel current ac or surge current, harm the safety or
damage the link road equipment. Related product:?adss fiber
Lightning has the trend to find the minimum impedance path to bleed thundercloud
charge opposite charges neutralize underground. When lightning the land or buildings,
lightning point potential while the cable extends to the very far, far end can be
regarded as a potential 0, so the potential of lightning strikes near the cable is also
regarded as 0. Such colony formation and fiber optic cable between the lightning

point of great potential difference, the potential difference exceeds the compressive
strength of Jiang Lei point between the outer sheath of the cable will breakdown the
outer sheath formed from lightning point to the metal components arc channel, so a
lot of lightning current flock to the cable, causing serious damage to the cable. ?It is
the time to use?optical fiber cable st termination kit. Cable lines in the construction
inevitably damage PE (polyethylene) jacket, another rat-bite, external staff may cause
the cable exposed metal components. These points will be easy to expose a strong
electrical charge is introduced or lightning cable, causing damage.
According to relevant data show that in the following cases, cable lines susceptible to
lightning strikes:

Metal sheaths, strengthen the core or the insulation lower copper cable.
Mutation terrain, soil resistivity changes in the larger area.
Cable trees or tall buildings with a single gauge are not enough time.

According to the above analysis, the same cable line to be concerned about its main
work. Fiber optic cable lines for lightning protection, can target local weather and
terrain and other natural conditions, a targeted manner. After analysis of a few
lightning cable, I found that the cable line construction and maintenance should pay
attention to the following questions.

First, as for aerial cables, one of the outdoor fiber optic cable, the connector box
usually has to the structure of the core can be broken even, whether using electrical
connected or disconnected, metal pressure plate structure is superior to the selfcontained bolt connection, and the self-contained horizontal hole is better than vertical
slot structure, it is a problem that should be paid attention to when choosing connector
box.
Second, for underground cable lines protection, first of all, station grounding method,
in the joint of the metal part of the cable shall be connected, the relay length of cable,

moisture proof layer, strengthens core armored layer connected state.In both ends
(station), the wrong layer, reinforcement, they can moisture proof layer should be
through the arrester grounding.