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04/10/2022 By Ian

Electrical Earthing & Lightning Protection For Data Centres

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Electrical Earthing Protection for Data centres barely existed thirty years ago. But, in the past few years, they have become essential to the functioning of virtually every large business. And professional organisation.

Very little commercial or administrative activity can take place if the computers are out of action. So, every minute of data centre downtime can have severe consequences for a firm’s profitability. Also, crucially, its reputation. Therefore, sound Electrical Earthing Protection can help to ensure that frequent but unpredictable events. Such as lightning strikes. And power surges do not cause data loss. As well as, severe and lasting damage to sensitive data centre equipment. Therefore, electrical earthing is a matter of vital importance.

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22/08/2022 By Ian Leave a Comment

Chem-Rods Solution to Nordic Earthing Challenge

In electrical terms, the geologies found in the Nordic region can seem a tough nut to crack. It is no surprise that there are some unique difficulties with earthing power systems in this region. Could Chem-Rods be the answer?

Igneous rock types such as granite make the soil resistivity much higher than in other parts of Europe. As a result, large sums of money can be thrown into compliant earthing designs. There is now an additional string to the earthing armoury – chem-rods!

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04/07/2022 By Hugh Leave a Comment

Understanding the risks of EMF

Impressed voltages and interference from electromagnetic fields are increasingly becoming a hot topic for safety professionals and engineers alike. Hugh looks at understanding the risks of EMFs, when you need to do an EMF study and how XGSLab does the heavy lifting for you when doing EMF studies. Watch a replay of the webinar here.

Ian: Hello, and welcome.

Thank you all for coming here today. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Ian Griffiths from GreyMatters, I am the principal consultant here. And I’d like to start things off with a quote or something that kind of resonated through the past week. One that came to mind was this, it was beautifully done. “Nearly everything awesome, takes longer than you think, get started now and don’t worry about the clock.” Think that’s a massive mantra to live by.

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08/06/2022 By Ian Leave a Comment

Earthing in Difficult Geologies

Ian takes us on a recap of earthing in difficult geologies, you can find the webinar replay here.

Ian: Hello and welcome.

How many times have we faced with the install team, or you are doing tests on site. You come back, and the readings are high, far higher than expected, and you are scratching your head wondering what is going on.

My name is Ian Griffiths, I am the Principal Consultant here at GreyMatters. In today’s webinar, we will take a step back, and we are going to revisit a webinar that was a piece done by Hugh a couple of years ago now, but it has come up is very topical. It is something that we get asked a lot of questions on. So that is the plan for today, let us dive in.

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03/05/2022 By Hugh Leave a Comment

Why is a hot site a problem?

Hugh takes us on a deeper dive into hot sites and answers the question ‘Why is a hot site a problem?’ You can find the webinar replay here.

Hugh: Hello, everyone, thanks for joining our webinar this morning. This is a continuation from our previous session where Ian introduced the concept of a hot site and talked about how it came about. You can find a replay of the first webinar ‘Why am I getting a hot site?’ here.

And what we are going to do in today’s session is we are going to develop on from that and talk about what the problems associated with hot sites are. Talk a bit about some of the things you can do to fix hot sites when they come about as a problem.

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