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Power Quality

This document discusses various power quality issues that can negatively impact IT systems and sensitive equipment. It defines different types of power problems including failures, sags, surges, brownouts, spikes, line noise, frequency variations, switching transients, and harmonic distortion. A UPS is described as maintaining power during failures or dips by instantly switching to batteries, and conditioning the power supply to reduce unwanted spikes and harmonics.

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Power Quality

This document discusses various power quality issues that can negatively impact IT systems and sensitive equipment. It defines different types of power problems including failures, sags, surges, brownouts, spikes, line noise, frequency variations, switching transients, and harmonic distortion. A UPS is described as maintaining power during failures or dips by instantly switching to batteries, and conditioning the power supply to reduce unwanted spikes and harmonics.

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POWER QUALITY ISSUES

A loss of power, even momentarily, can cause IT systems and sensitive equipment to crash. A UPS maintains powe

Power failure Sags Surges Brownouts Spikes Line noise Frequency variation Switching transient Harmonic distortion

The total loss of power. Causes electrical equipment to stop working. Transient under voltage, can be caused by switching of heavy loads such as air conditionin SurgesRelativelyshortduration(frommillisecondstoseconds)ofhighvoltage.Powers Brownouts -Under voltage for an extended period of time (milliseconds to seconds, minute Spikes -Very brief, but high energy bursts (lasting only a few milliseconds). Spikes are typi Line noise -Distortions superimposed on the power waveform. Causes electro magnetic in Frequency variation - Deviation from the nominal frequency. Causes motors to increase or Switching transient - Instantaneous under voltage. May cause erratic behaviour in some eq Multiples of power frequency superimposed on the power waveform. Causes excess heati

ash. A UPS maintains power by switching instantaneously to batteries in the event of a power failure, or even just a dip in pow

oads such as air conditioning or industrial machinery. Can cause IT hardware to lock-up, fail or re-boot. ds)ofhighvoltage.Powersurgescouldbecausedbytheshut-downofageneratororotherindustrialmotoronthelocalsupply seconds to seconds, minutes, hours or days). Will cause overheating in motors. Prolonged and frequent brownouts cause equi illiseconds). Spikes are typically caused by lightning or malfunctions in the power supply. Will damage sensitive solid-state com Causes electro magnetic interference. auses motors to increase or decrease speed. erratic behaviour in some equipment: memory loss, data error, data loss and component stress. form. Causes excess heating in wiring and fuses.

ailure, or even just a dip in power (a brownout). They also condition the power supply to reduce unwanted spikes and harmonic

ustrialmotoronthelocalsupplycircuit.Willcausesystemstocrash,cancausecomponentstowearanddegradeoverextende requent brownouts cause equipment to malfunction or not work at all. amage sensitive solid-state components and destroy data in digital equipment.

unwanted spikes and harmonics. They are designed to correct a variety of power problems, such as:

wearanddegradeoverextendedperiods.

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