Power Quality Protection

While power disturbances occur on all electrical systems, the sensitivity of today’s electronics make them more susceptible to them. For some sensitive devices, a momentary disturbance can cause scrambled data, interrupted communications, a frozen mouse, system crashes and equipment failure. A power voltage spike can damage valuable components. Power quality issues can cause business problems such as:

• Lost productivity and idle people and equipment     
• Lost orders, good will, customers and profits     
• Lost transactions and orders not being processed     
• Revenue and accounting problems such as invoices not prepared, payments held up, and early payment discounts missed     
• Customer and/or management dissatisfaction     
• Overtime required to make up for lost work time

According to Electric Light and Power magazine, 30 to 40 percent of all business downtime is related to power quality problems. Businesses have a lot invested in office and production equipment, and power quality protection is an inexpensive insurance policy against incidents.

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