Monitoring, Controlling, and Protecting Power Systems with Applied Energy LLC
Monitoring the power quality of your system is the first step in preventing equipment downtime. Otherwise, power problems will dictate the uptime of your equipment. Without test data, the cause of unreliable operation is difficult to determine. Without data, everyone is simply guessing as to the cause of the power problems. There are numerous systems of belief regarding methods for maintaining control over the quality of power transmission and the protection of electrical equipment:
- The surge suppression industry recommends products which attempt to control overvoltage by conducting high amounts of phase current to ground
- The National Electric Code is replete with details on draining excess and unintentional current to ground
- Control manufacturers require their power feed voltages to be balanced with respect to ground
- Drive manufacturers require clean power for reliable operation
At the beginning of a transient electrical event, a Surge Protective Device (SPD) will ignore overvoltage occurring phase-to-ground: it is allowing a voltage imbalance to occur. When a transient surge of voltage has reached the SPD’s clamping level, the SPD sends thousands of amps of fault current to ground, which is the reference point for computers and controls.
Accept no substitutes: other power control methods fail to resolve unbalanced voltages, which can lead to premature electronic control failure, or faults in motor drive controls due to their inherent correction delay.
Installing the Applied Energy Power Monitoring and Control System in a new facility is the only way to prevent power problems from occurring in the first place. Applied Energy provides the most reliable and efficient operation possible. The Applied Energy Power Monitoring and Control System is built to withstand and control all magnitudes of power quality problems and carries a lifetime warranty.
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