Chloride Power Conditioners Target Damaging Neutral-to-Ground Related Power Disturbances
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"Tenth" Power Problem Solved By Advanced Isolation Transformer
LIBERTYVILLE, IL, December 17, 2008 - In engineering circles, they talk about the "Nine Power Problems." In laymen terms, these problems refer to the most common sources of power-related disturbances striking electronic equipment, ranging from ATM machines to large datacenters. These nine problems are cataloged as the following: power system failures, sags, surges, under-voltage, over-voltage, electrical line noise, frequency variation, switching transients, and harmonic distortion.
Unfortunately for users, engineers often forget that there is a "tenth" problem. While this problem has always existed, as PCs and other electronic equipment have been increasingly deployed into areas with "dirty" power, dealing with the "tenth" problem has become more critical. This problem,voltage differences between the neutral and ground wires in a system, often results from the need to meet FCC regulations and non-linear loads such as computer power supplies or light dimmers. This noise often causes confusion in logic systems by overriding the true signal and providing false data to a device. Under these circumstances, reboots, lock-ups and errors in data streams become more common. Electrical circuits supplying mixed types of equipment are especially susceptible to these neutral-to-ground disturbances.
"Because an oscilloscope is usually required to identify neutral-to-ground noise issues, it is not unusual for engineers to mistakenly blame neutral-to-ground noise disturbances on sags or surges," explained Yolanda Hernandez, Director of Marketing for Chloride North America. "More troubling is that standard power protection equipment such as surge strips and commonly available UPS's do little or nothing to control this "tenth" problem."
According to Hernandez, Chloride was one of the first companies to introduce, and is still the leader in providing, power conditioners equipped with proprietary low impedance transformers which utilize the Virtual Kelvin Ground® to reduce the full spectrum of conducted power line noise from 50 kHz to 10 MHz. These products are designed to assure an exceptionally clean signal reference ground for electronic systems. "We realized early on that non-hardened PC's and other electronic equipment in industrial or other environments with "dirty" power were subject to this problem, leading to costly machinery failure, parts being scraped, and production downtime. Although it required considerable research, we developed technology that isolates critical loads from all disturbances."
Chloride currently offers five lines with or without UPS backup that use this technology:
o ONEAC ConditionOne Power Conditioners
o ONEAC CX Series Industrial Power Conditioners
o ONEAC PCm Series Medical Grade Power Conditioners
o ONEAC ON Series Power Conditioned UPS
o ONEAC OnePlus Series Power Conditioned UPS.
For more information, please call 847.990.3623. Or visit http://www.chloridepower.com/USA.
About Chloride
Headquartered in London, Chloride Group PLC is an international electronics manufacturer operating primarily in the power protection and safety system markets. Chloride North America manufactures and supplies a range of UPS, power conditioning and line protector products for critical applications primarily in the rapidly growing areas of data communications, retail, biomedical systems and industrial process controls.
O'Connell Communications
Dan O'Connell
708-482-0212
dan@oconnellpr.com
Chloride
Yolanda Hernandez
847-990-3623
Yolanda.Hernandez@chloridepower.com
CHLORIDE
27944 North Bradley Road
Libertyville
IL 60048
