EN IEC 62561-2:2018

Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 2: Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes

IEC 62561-2:2018 specifies the requirements and tests for:  
metallic conductors (other than "natural" conductors) that form part of the air-termination and down-conductor systems,
metallic earth electrodes that form part of the earth-termination system.  This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2012. This edition constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical change with respect to the previous edition:
Tables 2 and 4 have been merged into one Table (Table 2).
Figure 2 showing the coating measurement of a plate conductor has been added.

Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 2: Anforderungen an Leiter und Erder

Composants des systèmes de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) - Partie 2: Exigences pour les conducteurs et les électrodes de terre

L'IEC 62561-2:2018 spécifie les exigences et les essais pour:  
les conducteurs métalliques (autres que les conducteurs "naturels") qui font partie des systèmes de capture et de conducteurs de descente;
les électrodes de terre métalliques qui font partie de la prise de terre.  Cette deuxième édition annule et remplace la première édition parue en 2012. Cette édition constitue une révision technique. Cette édition inclut les modifications techniques majeures suivantes par rapport à l'édition précédente:
fusion du Tableau 2 et du Tableau 4 en un seul tableau (Tableau 2);
ajout de la Figure 2 présentant les mesures du revêtement d'une plaque conductrice de plaque.

Elementi za zaščito pred strelo (LPSC) - 2. del: Zahteve za vodnike in ozemljila

2. del standarda IEC 62561 določa zahteve in preskuse za:
– kovinske prevodnike (ki niso »naravni« prevodniki), ki tvorijo del lovilnih in odvodnih sistemov;
– kovinska ozemljila, ki tvorijo del ozemljitvenega sistema.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 15-Mar-2018
• Withdrawal Date: 28-Feb-2021
• ICS: 29.020 - Electrical engineering in general
• ICS: 91.120.40 - Lightning protection
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 81X - Lightning protection
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 81 - IEC_TC_81
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 16-Mar-2018
• Completion Date: 16-Mar-2018
• Ref Project: SIST EN IEC 62561-2:2018 - Lightning Protection System Components (LPSC) - Part 2: Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes

Relations

• Replaces: EN 62561-2:2012 - Lightning Protection System Components (LPSC) - Part 2: Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes
• Effective Date: 07-Jun-2022
• Corrected By: EN IEC 62561-2:2018/AC:2019-09 - Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 2: Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2019
• Revised: prEN IEC 62561-2:2024 - Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 2: Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes
• Effective Date: 16-Mar-2021

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-maj-2018
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Lightning Protection System Components (LPSC) - Part 2: Requirements for conductors
and earth electrodes
Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 2: Anforderungen an Leiter und Erder
Composants des systèmes de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) - Partie 2: Exigences
pour les conducteurs et les électrodes de terre
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 62561-2:2018
ICS:
91.120.40 =DãþLWDSUHGVWUHOR Lightning protection
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 62561-2

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2018
ICS 29.020; 91.120.40 Supersedes EN 62561-2:2012
English Version
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) - Part 2:
Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes
(IEC 62561-2:2018)
Composants des systèmes de protection contre la foudre Blitzschutzsystembauteile (LPSC) - Teil 2: Anforderungen
(CSPF) - Partie 2: Exigences pour les conducteurs et les an Leiter und Erder
électrodes de terre (IEC 62561-2:2018)
(IEC 62561-2:2018)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2018-03-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
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European foreword
The text of document 81/577/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 62561-2, prepared by IEC/TC 81 "Lightning
protection" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2018-12-01
• latest date by which the document has to be
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national (dow) 2021-03-01
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 62561-2:2012.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62561-2:2018 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:

IEC 62305-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62305-1.
ISO 1460 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 1460.
ISO 1461 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 1461.
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1  Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2  Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60068-2-52 1996 Environmental testing - Part 2-52: Tests - EN 60068-2-52 1996
Test Kb: Salt mist, cyclic (sodium chloride
solution)
IEC 62305-3 -  Protection against lightning - Part 3: EN 62305-3 -
Physical damage to structures and life
hazard
IEC 62305-4 -  Protection against lightning - Part 4: EN 62305-4 -
Electrical and electronic systems within
structures
IEC 62561-1 (mod) 2012 Lightning Protection System Components EN 62561-1 2012
(LPSC) - Part 1: Requirements for
connection components
ISO 2178 -  Non-magnetic coatings on magnetic EN ISO 2178 -
substrates - Measurement of coating
thickness - Magnetic method
ISO 6892-1 -  Metallic materials - Tensile testing - Part 1: EN ISO 6892-1 -
Method of test at room temperature
ISO 6957 1988 Copper alloys; ammonia test for stress - -
corrosion resistance
ISO 6988 1985 Metallic and other non-organic coatings - EN ISO 6988 1994
Sulfur dioxide test with general
condensation of moisture
IEC 62561-2 ®
Edition 2.0 2018-01
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Lightning protection system components (LPSC) –

Part 2: Requirements for conductors and earth electrodes

Composants des systèmes de protection contre la foudre (CSPF) –

Partie 2: Exigences pour les conducteurs et les électrodes de terre

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 29.020; 91.120.40 ISBN 978-2-8322-5265-9

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms and definitions . 7
4 Requirements . 9
4.1 General . 9
4.2 Documentation . 9
4.3 Air-termination conductors, air-termination rods, earth lead-in rods and
down-conductors . 9
4.4 Earth electrodes. 11
4.4.1 General . 11
4.4.2 Earth rods . 11
4.4.3 Couplers for earth rods . 11
4.4.4 Earth conductors and earth plates . 12
4.5 Marking . 12
5 Tests . 14
5.1 General conditions for tests . 14
5.2 Conductors, air-termination rods, earth lead-in rods and earth electrodes
(except earth rods) . 14
5.2.1 General . 14
5.2.2 Test for thickness of coating . 15
5.2.3 Bend and adhesion test for coated conductors . 16
5.2.4 Environmental test for coated materials . 16
5.2.5 Electrical resistivity test . 16
5.2.6 Tensile test . 17
5.3 Earth rods . 17
5.3.1 General . 17
5.3.2 Test for thickness of coating on earth rods . 17
5.3.3 Adhesion test . 17
5.3.4 Bend test . 18
5.3.5 Environmental test for coated earth rods . 19
5.3.6 Electrical resistivity test . 19
5.3.7 Tensile strength test . 19
5.3.8 Test for yield/tensile ratio . 20
5.4 Couplers for earth rods . 20
5.4.1 General . 20
5.4.2 Compression test by mechanical means . 20
5.4.3 Environmental test . 22
5.4.4 Electrical test . 22
5.4.5 Tensile strength test . 22
5.5 Marking test . 22
5.5.1 General conditions for tests . 22
5.5.2 Acceptance criteria . 22
6 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) . 23
7 Structure and content of the test report . 23
7.1 General . 23

IEC 62561-2:2018 © IEC 2018 – 3 –
7.2 Report identification . 23
7.3 Specimen description . 23
7.4 Conductor . 24
7.5 Standards and references . 24
7.6 Test procedure . 24
7.7 Testing equipment, description . 24
7.8 Measuring instruments description . 24
7.9 Results and parameters recorded . 24
7.10 Statement of pass/fail . 24
Annex A (normative) Environmental test for conductors, air-termination rods and earth
lead-in rods . 25
A.1 General . 25
A.2 Salt mist treatment . 25
A.3 Humid sulphurous atmosphere treatment . 25
A.4 Ammonia atmosphere treatment. 25
Annex B (normati
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