Power Conditioning or Power Quality Analysis?

Every power protection manufacturer designs their protection based on the fact that your site meets the National Electrical Code for safety. They also assume that you have good, solid earth ground and only one grounding path. With substandard grounding, many power conditioners will not provide optimum protection. The result is “impulse let-through” and “high frequency noise” causing the system performance to suffer!

Installing 100% power conditioning is often not practical or cost effective, especially for high power loads. If you've installed a partial power solution (such as a TVSS or power conditioner) you need to know if your site suffers from other problems such as voltage regulation issues or outages.

Many power conditioners and UPS systems are as complex as the systems they are protecting. They need the right environment, or they may malfunction or fail. Power and environmental monitoring allows you to quickly determine if your power treatment is working and if it will perform as expected.

Power conditioning may take care of your electrical problems. But there are other site issues that can affect equipment reliability and performance - and act very much like power problems. Consider temperature and humidity (amplitude and also dynamic stability) as well as other parameters such as air quality and vibration that are significant power quality concerns.

A RxMS Power Quality Site Analysis provides solutions to these issues. Learn more about what our complete power quality site inspections offer!