EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING

Destruction

• Voltage breakdown of semiconductor transitions
• Destruction of the bond wire connections of components
• Destruction of conductor paths or connections of printed circuit boards
• Destruction of triacs or thyristors by too high dV/dt-values.

Operational faults

• Undefined operation of logic gates, thyristors and triacs
• Deletion of memory contents
• Program errors or crashes
• Data and transmission errors

Premature aging

Components that are exposed to overvoltages have a shorter service life.

(Average percentage of damage caused by overvoltages)

(Damage caused by overvoltage)