How Reliable is your Power?

Maintaining power quality is not always in your hands,

There are some important considerations that should be taken into account when designing a power protection solution.

Take a moment to complete our Power Quality Assessment below to help you identify your unique requirements to ensure you are getting the best solution. Or contact us - we pride ourselves in taking the time to understand your systems and requirements, and applying our extensive technical knowledge and experience to deliver the right solution to protect your data.

Maintaining Power Quality

To protect your sensitive electronic equipment from the hazards of lightning and other power problems that are common on our electrical supply, you need to consider a structured approach for your building. Without the proper power quality solution you may be leaving yourself vulnerable to:

• Common Power Quality Problems
  	Variations in frequency can occur when back up generators take over from mains power
  	Waveform distortion can be caused by factory equipment or utility power
  	Noise can be generated by computers and other electrical devices
  	Spikes from lightning strikes enter the power supply from outside the building
  	Sustained low voltage can damage sensitive equipment
  	Surges of momentary high voltage can overload equipment
  	The complete loss of power in the form of a blackout

  Damage and destruction of equipment
• Equipment ‘freezes’ & ‘lockups’ requiring restarts
• Data corruption and loss
• Downtime and interruption to business activity

Power Quality Assessment

Ask these questions now to start designing a power protection solution:

- List the equipment to be protected and determine the maximum power required

- How will the protection be installed? Will it be centralised or distributed?

- How much back up time is needed?

- How sensitive is the equipment? Are there servers or VOIP services that require an online UPS?

- Is communication to and from the UPS required? Will it integrate with the local network

- Is a standby generator to be used? List the equipment to be powered by the generator. Is automated start/stop/changeover required?

- Consider and include surge and spike damage protection

- Is precision air conditioning required for the equipment?

- Do you need your data centre or Server room designed and constructed?

- Is a service & maintenance agreement required?

Make sure you are getting the best solution.

Talk to Power Quality Consultants about how we can help you design a system to keep you protected.