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Seasonal Greetings and A Round-Up of 2019

Firstly I’d like to take this opportunity to wish our Clients, Friends, Academy Students and Blog subscribers SEASONAL GREETINGS and a very prosperous New Year.

I’m actually in Western Australia writing this post. Having completed a life long ambition and the most challenging personal goal of my life. That’s crossing the Southern Ocean from South Africa to Australia. Competing in a leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. I write more about this in my personal blog.

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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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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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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Here’s a slight departure from the usual technical blog – so, the holiday’s are a distant memory, yet, the scene outside my window right now looks like something out of “A Christmas Carol”, by Charles Dickens. This time of year is a strange one for us; both December and January are truncated by the holidays which can mean playing catch-up on the work-related items to recover from the time spent during family reunions.

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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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