The invention discloses a lightning current impact test device for an intelligent voltage limiter, which comprises a voltage regulator, a test transformer, a silicon stack, a capacitor, a wave-regulating resistor, a wave-regulating inductor, a current divider, a measuring instrument and a voltage divider, wherein the current divider and the voltage divider are connected with the measuring instrument, the test transformer is boosted through the voltage regulator, the secondary side voltage of the test transformer is rectified by the silicon stack and then charges the capacitor, the gap breaks down after the charging is completed, the intelligent voltage limiter is discharged through the wave-regulating resistor and the wave-regulating inductor, the actual current and residual voltage passing through the intelligent voltage limiter are measured through the measuring instrument, and the measured waveform is compared with the waveform monitored by the intelligent voltage limiter. The lightning current impact test device can verify the reliability of the intelligent voltage limiter.