Lightning protection system of weather radar
By constructing a lightning protection system, grounding system, and direct lightning strike protection system, as well as a lightning warning system, the problem of weather radar being susceptible to lightning strikes has been solved, and the safe and stable operation of the equipment and early warning protection have been achieved.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202422384391.3
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-09-29
- Publication Date
- 2025-11-18
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-09-29
AI Technical Summary
Weather radar is susceptible to interference and damage from lightning, which can lead to equipment damage and prolonged downtime, affecting monitoring functions and causing safety and economic losses.
The system employs an induction protection system, a grounding system, a direct lightning strike protection system, and a lightning warning system, including components such as lightning rods, surge protectors, grounding electrodes, electric field meters, and magnetic field meters, to construct comprehensive lightning protection. It is combined with a data analysis platform for real-time monitoring and early warning.
Effective protection against lightning strikes ensures safe and stable operation of the equipment and reduces losses caused by lightning activity.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model belongs to the lightning protection technical field, especially a weather radar lightning protection system. BACKGROUND
[0002] Weather radar belongs to complex electronic system, extremely vulnerable to lightning interference and damage, once encounter lightning, because equipment damage, radar is forced to long time downtime, this seriously affected the monitoring function of weather radar, not only lead to equipment damage, also can cause production safety hidden danger and economic loss. SUMMARY
[0003] Therefore, the utility model aims at overcoming the above-mentioned problems of prior art, and provides a weather radar lightning protection system.
[0004] To achieve the above-mentioned purposes, the technical scheme of the utility model is as follows:
[0005] A weather radar lightning protection system, the lightning protection system includes anti-induction system, grounding system, direct lightning protection system and lightning warning system;
[0006] The direct lightning protection system includes lightning rod, lightning belt and lightning net, four lightning rods in equal height four-corner arrangement are installed on the top of the platform of radar antenna pedestal to carry out direct lightning protection, the lightning belt and lightning net are arranged on the whole roof of radar station, the lightning rod down lead is connected with the main reinforcement of the main building of radar station and is connected with the lightning belt and lightning net grid in equipotential connection;
[0007] The anti-induction system includes surge protector, is respectively installed in the total switch front end of the total distribution cabinet of power distribution room, radar main machine room distribution box, other electric equipment electric box and radar signal receiving end;
[0008] The grounding system includes grounding electrode, grounding bus and grounding cross-over line;
[0009] The lightning warning system includes electric field instrument, magnetic field instrument and data analysis platform, is used for monitoring lightning activity and sends early warning signal.
[0010] Further, the lightning rod adopts glass steel lightning rod.
[0011] Further, the glass steel lightning rod includes high-strength composite glass steel support pole, lightning arrester, down lead and foundation.
[0012] Further, the data analysis platform includes host computer and server, and the server includes cloud server.
[0013] Further, the electric field instrument and magnetic field instrument are connected with the host computer and server of data analysis platform through wired transmission mode.
[0014] Further, the host computer is provided with an alarm device, which alarms and reminds through the ways of sound and light alarm and broadcast.
[0015] Further, the host computer is further provided with a GSM module, which alarms and reminds by sending short messages to the staff's intelligent terminal.
[0016] Compared with the prior art, the lightning protection system of the weather radar has the following advantages:
[0017] The lightning protection system of the weather radar has the following advantages: BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0018] The accompanying drawings, which form a part of this description, are included to provide a further understanding of the application. The embodiments of the application and its features (A and B) described hereinbelow are meant as non-limiting examples, as the true scope of the application is indicated by the appended claims.
[0019] Fig. 1 Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the lightning protection system of the weather radar of the present application;
[0020] Fig. 2 Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the radar early warning system of the present application.
[0021] DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0022] 1- lightning protection system; 2- direct lightning protection system; 3- induction protection system; 4- grounding system; 5- lightning early warning system. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0023] It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other without conflict.
[0024] In the description of the utility model, it is necessary to understand that the orientation or positional relation indicated by the terms "center", "longitudinal", "transverse", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer" and the like is the orientation or positional relation shown based on the drawings, and is only for the convenience of describing the utility model and simplifying the description, and therefore cannot be understood as indicating or implying that the devices or elements indicated must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as limiting the utility model. In addition, the terms "first", "second" and the like are only for the purpose of description, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of the technical features indicated. Therefore, the features limited by "first", "second" and the like can explicitly or implicitly include one or more features. In the description of the utility model, the meaning of "a plurality of" is two or more, unless otherwise specified.
[0025] In the description of the utility model, it should be explained that, unless otherwise explicitly specified and limited, the terms "mounting", "connection", "connection" should be understood broadly, for example, it can be fixedly connected, or it can be detachably connected, or integrally connected, it can be mechanically connected, or it can be electrically connected, it can be directly connected, or it can be indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, it can be the communication inside two elements. For ordinary skilled in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the utility model can be understood through specific circumstances.
[0026] The utility model will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and in combination with embodiments.
[0027] As Figs. 1-2 shown, the utility model provides a weather radar lightning protection system, lightning protection system 1 including anti induction system 3, grounding system 4, anti direct lightning system 2 and lightning early warning system 5.
[0028] The anti direct lightning system 2 includes lightning rod, lightning belt and lightning net, installs the lightning rod of equal height four corners arrangement in the platform top of installing radar antenna pedestal and carries out direct lightning protection, lightning belt and lightning net are arranged in the whole roof of radar station, and the main reinforcement of lightning rod down lead is connected with the main building of radar station, and is connected with lightning belt and lightning net grid equipotential connection, in the utility model, the lightning rod adopts glass steel lightning rod. The glass steel lightning rod used in the utility model includes high-strength composite glass steel support pole, spark arrester, down lead and foundation.
[0029] The anti-induction system 3 comprises surge protectors respectively installed at the front end of a general switch of a general power distribution cabinet of a power distribution room, a power distribution box of a radar host room, power distribution boxes of other electric equipment and a radar signal receiving end; the surge protector at the front end of the general switch of the general power distribution cabinet of the power distribution room is used for protecting all electric equipment of the radar station, the surge protector at the power distribution box of the radar host room is used for protecting the radar system, the surge protectors at the power distribution boxes of other electric equipment are used for protecting electric equipment other than the radar system, and the surge protector arranged at the radar signal receiving end is used for protecting the radar.
[0030] The grounding system 4 comprises a grounding electrode, a grounding bus and a grounding jumper.
[0031] The lightning early warning system 5 comprises an electric field instrument, a magnetic field instrument and a data analysis platform, which are used for monitoring lightning activities and sending early warning signals.
[0032] In the utility model, the data analysis platform comprises a host computer and a server, and the server comprises a cloud server.
[0033] In the utility model, the electric field instrument and the magnetic field instrument are connected with the host computer and the server of the data analysis platform through a wired transmission mode.
[0034] In the utility model, the host computer is provided with an alarm device and alarms and reminds through an audible and visual alarm and broadcast.
[0035] In the utility model, the host computer is further provided with a GSM module and alarms and reminds by sending a short message to a staff intelligent terminal.
[0036] In the utility model, the anti-induction system, the grounding system and the direct lightning protection system are used to realize lightning protection of the radar and the radar station, the electric field instrument and the magnetic field instrument are used to acquire lightning data and send the data to the host computer, the host computer calculates the lightning data and sends an early warning signal in time, so that the radar station is prevented from being influenced by severe environment and extreme weather, and the loss is reduced.
[0037] The above only describes preferred embodiments of the utility model, and does not limit the utility model, and any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. within the spirit and principle of the utility model should be included in the protection scope of the utility model.
Claims
1. A lightning protection system for a weather radar, characterized by: The lightning protection system (1) comprises an anti-induction system (3), a grounding system (4), an anti-direct lightning system (2) and a lightning warning system (5); The anti-direct lightning system (2) comprises lightning rods, lightning belts and lightning nets, four lightning rods arranged in an isometric quadrangle are installed on the top of the platform of the radar antenna pedestal for direct lightning protection, the lightning belts and the lightning nets are arranged on the entire roof of the radar station, the lightning rod down lead is connected with the main reinforcement of the main building of the radar station and is equipotential connected with the lightning belts and the lightning net. The anti-induction system (3) comprises surge protectors, which are respectively installed at the front end of the main switch of the main power distribution cabinet of the power distribution room, the power distribution box of the radar main machine room, the electric box of other electric equipment and the radar signal receiving end. The grounding system (4) comprises grounding electrodes, grounding buses and grounding cross-over wires. The lightning warning system (5) comprises electric field meters, magnetic field meters and a data analysis platform, which are used for monitoring lightning activities and sending warning signals.
2. The lightning protection system for a weather radar according to claim 1, characterized in that: The lightning rod is a glass fiber reinforced plastic lightning rod.
3. The lightning protection system for a weather radar according to claim 2, characterized in that: The glass fiber reinforced plastic lightning rod comprises high-strength composite glass fiber reinforced plastic supporting rods, a lightning arrester, a down lead and a foundation.
4. The lightning protection system for a weather radar according to claim 1, characterized in that: The data analysis platform comprises an upper computer and a server, and the server comprises a cloud server.
5. A lightning protection system for a weather radar according to claim 4, characterized in that: The electric field meters and the magnetic field meters are connected with the upper computer and the server of the data analysis platform through a wired transmission mode.
6. The lightning protection system for a weather radar according to claim 4, characterized in that: The upper computer is provided with an alarm device and alarms and reminds through an audible and visual alarm and broadcast broadcasting.
7. The lightning protection system for a weather radar according to claim 4, characterized in that: A GSM module is further arranged in the upper computer, and the alarm and reminder are realized by sending a short message to a staff intelligent terminal.