Surge Protective Devices

Power Surges are Short-Circuiting your Bottom Line!

Most business people think that power surges are rare or infrequent occurrences.  Like when lightning strikes a power line, a transformer blows, there’s a problem at a power generation plant, a car hits a power pole, the in-rush of power after an outage, or when too many users overload a region’s power grid.

The truth is that transient power surges are temporary increases in voltage (“pressure”) generated both externally AND internally from your business.  And they’re happening all the time!   In fact, over 80% of surges come from WITHIN a company!

The only time we even pay attention to a surge is when the lights briefly flicker or dim when an air conditioning system cycles on, a walk-in freezer kicks in, or electrical equipment is powered up.  A typical fast food restaurant, just as an example, can generate up to 100,000 surges an hour.   Simply turning on a light switch, a motor, or even a computer can create a small surge.

Unfortunately, transient power surges are a lot like high blood pressure in people.  They silently and unrelentingly cause premature wear in every piece of unprotected electrical equipment they pass through.  They shorten the useful lives of expensive computers and equipment, increasing maintenance costs, and decreasing uptime.  Ignoring transient voltage electrical surges can easily and unnecessarily cost your business thousands of dollars.  Year in and year out!

Pull the Plug on Power Surges Before they Strike

Fortunately, there’s an easy, reliable, and cost effective way to protect everything your company owns that’s powered by electricity.  It’s called the Protector made by Eaton.  Heck, “Protection” is even in our name!  The Protector is engineered to effectively stop surges at the door… on the electrical panels within your company.

Surge Protective Devices (SPDs) takes excess voltage off an electric panel and “stick it in the dirt” through the ground wires.  SPDs act like pressure relief valves providing an exit for excess voltage instead of letting it travel throughout a facility’s electric grid causing damage to equipment.

Better still, the Protector Surge Protective Device is significantly different from any other industrial surge protector in four important ways:

• Threshold Suppression Network: Offers the best suppression of high energy impulse generated transients and widest range of application compatibility.  The Protector uses large diameter metal oxide varistors to mitigate high energy impulses.
• All Mode Protection: Assures all possible transient paths to load equipment are covered.  Provides the highest level of load equipment protection.
• S.M.A.R.T. Diagnostics including Surge Counter:  Delivers comprehensive monitoring of critical system functions, including real time audible and visual reporting of unit status, phase loss/protection loss and transient events.  You won’t have to wonder if you are being protected, this unit will keep score!
• Maintenance Free, with a 20-Year Free Replacement Warranty

Why Haven’t I Heard of This Before?

Surge activity is a reality we’ve just grown to accept.  Surges are prevalent, destructive, costly, and now can be easily and affordably eliminated.  Further, electrical contractors are primarily in the repair business, or new construction business and rarely work with clients on pro-active measures to reduce downtime.

Unfortunately, businesses are not proactive in eliminating surges causing a greater need for electrical contractors to make repairs.   Eaton is one of the world’s largest makers of electrical equipment (Cutler-Hammer for example),  and are fully committed to helping businesses end their surge problems… even if the business didn’t know it had a problem!