In this work, the design and construction steps of a voltage surge generator are detailed based on established international standards (IEC 61000-4-5). The waveforms of the two output signals implemented are representative of surges due to the first and subsequent lightning strokes, respectively. Also, their parameters meet the requirements imposed by the standards IEC 60060-1 and IEEE Std-4. In order to validate the surge generator, it was analyzed the transient and steady-state behaviors of several grounding systems when subjected to lightning strokes, using the developed generator as the source of the injection signal. The grounding systems were analyzed by field experiments, and each experiment was reproduced numerically using the FDTD method. Low percentage errors were obtained between the signals measured during the field experiments and the corresponding numerical signals. Moreover, the analyzed grounding systems behaved as expected in literature. Those two facts validade the surge generator built in this work.
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