IEC 62561-2:2025
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The latest, up-to-date edition.
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 2: Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes
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30-09-2025
IEC 62561-2:2025 specifies the requirements and tests for
- metallic conductors (other than "natural" conductors) that form part of the air-termination and down-conductor systems, and
- metallic earth electrodes that form part of the earth-termination system.
This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2018. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) definitions of new conductor types mentioned in this document have been added;
b) the document has been updated in line with IEC 60068-2-52:2017 on salt mist treatment;
c) the document has been updated in line with ISO 22479:2019 on humid sulphurous atmosphere treatment;
d) a new normative Annex H for material, configuration and cross-sectional area test has been introduced;
e) a new normative Annex I for applicability of previous tests has been introduced.
f) equipotential earth grid has been introduced.
| Committee |
TC 81
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
42
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| PublisherName |
International Electrotechnical Committee
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| Status |
Current
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| Supersedes |
| Standards | Relationship |
| NEN-EN-IEC 62561-2:2025 | Identical |
| DS/EN IEC 62561-2:2025 | Identical |
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