Intrinsically Safe Equipment

Lightning Radio, Inc. provides Intrinsically Safe radio rentals for those who work in volatile environments.  Current clients include oil refineries, construction crews, and public safety agencies. 

Intrinsically safe equipment is defined as "equipment and wiring which is incapable of releasing sufficient electrical or thermal energy under normal or abnormal conditions to cause ignition of a specific hazardous atmospheric mixture in its most easily ignited concentration." (ISA-RP12.6)  In order to have a fire or explosion, fuel, oxygen and a source of ignition must be present. An intrinsically safe system assumes the fuel and oxygen is present in the atmosphere, but the system is designed so the electrical energy or thermal energy of a particular instrument loop can never be great enough to cause ignition.  When working in hazardous areas our equipment can give the reassurance that you will experience consistent and SAFE communications.  Services include: