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18/09/2020 By Ian Leave a Comment

A Roundup of The Free Summer Webinar Series

As teams around the world adapt their work style and business practices to take precautions for COVID-19, staying connected and having clarity around work and priorities is more important than ever. To that end, we want to help our global customers. So we are sharing tips and best practices around earthing, earthing design, and best design practices. With a monthly series of Free Webinars.

Below are the links to the recorded replays.

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30/04/2020 By Ian Leave a Comment

Corona Blues – My Advice While Furloughed (or Remote Working).

With the current pressure on governments to relax or even lift the current lockdown measures, there’s one word that the more neurotic amongst us try not to use – recession!

Robert Kiyosaki gives some good advice.

“Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.”
Robert Kiyosaki

There are several things we can all do to get ourselves prepared for and even thrive in a recession (having gone through many economic downturns myself from the 1980s), there’s always something we can do to improve our situation when it passes.

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19/06/2019 By Ian Leave a Comment

Are you getting tired of people stealing your lovely earthing arrangements

Good news – having just finished a project to pin lovely shiny copper conductors to their supporting structures protecting their Earthing Arrangements. We’ve ended up with quite a few surpluses of the Fischer FNAII stainless pins (we call them Titan pins – part no. 044112) leftover … 3,400 to be exact!

These bad boys are simple to fit concrete structures using a 6mm dia masonry drill at discrete spacings (typically 500mm) to make things incredibly hard for a thief to remove the valuable conductor without spending considerable time trying. This Anti-theft earthing arrangement is not a silver bullet, but even if they do persist all that they can practically do is to cut away a 500mm section at a time not 10’s or 100’s of meters — therefore slowing the whole process down massively.

Thus, making things incredibly frustrating for the thief and making them more vulnerable to getting caught as well as reducing how much of the conductor goes missing.

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26/03/2019 By Ian Leave a Comment

Here’s something else to make your life a little easier! A lightning-quick risk assessment service

Ever needed a quick response Lightning Protection Risk assessment service? Here is something we’ve tried to make incredibly easy for you to use. You can now order and pay online, and the independent lightning protection risk assessment to IEC 62305-2 can be turned around within a week with our premium service, or two weeks on our normal service.

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25/01/2018 By Ian Leave a Comment

A Round-Up of 2017 and The 10 Most Read Posts

Well, 2017 was an exciting year for the team GreyMatters. So, at the end of 2016, we set goals on what we wanted to achieve in 2017. The biggest success story, which is probably closest to my heart. Is smashing the previous year’s lives-protected by HV Earthing, Grounding Design.

Lives Saved by Earthing Grounding Design – Explained

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