A Power Quality Study by the UK National Power Laboratory estimated that the average computer is subjected to 289 potentially damaging power disturbances every year. That's more than one in every business day.

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Power Surges Jerking Your System Around?

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Damaging brownouts (low voltage power sags), blackouts, surges, spikes and line noise can take their toll on your computer system. Today's high-tech computer equipment demands perfect, uninterrupted, constant, even-flow power to run at its optimum. Most often your local electric company can't guarantee to provide perfect power. Often older buildings are not wired with today's high-tech computer equipment in mind. As a result, your computer equipment is confronted with fluctuating voltage conditions.

Under low voltage conditions, your computer equipment's internal power supply and circuitry must compensate by working harder. Repeated exposure to brownouts can overheat these sensitive components causing keyboard lock-ups, data corruption and in some cases total system failure.

Other failures in computer efficiency can be symptoms of power spike and surge problems. These can appear as garbled data, systems lockups, general protection faults, and slowed transmission. While many surges and spikes are products of nature, like lightning strikes and many more are products of man - like copier or laser printer cycling.

Line conditioners prevent power surge problems by keeping your equipment working through brownouts without using emergency power sources like Uninterrupted Power Supply systems or auxiliary generators. Line conditioners automatically adjust under- and over- voltages to provide safe, computer-grade AC power.

Case study
Nautalex has often advocated line conditioners to clean up power supply to senstive computer equipment. Although it's not easy to demonstrate their need, here's a case in point:

One client, wondering if electrical quality could be causing problems with their computer system, had monitoring devices placed at their site. They recorded over 4,000 spikes in a 5-day period!

As a result of adding a line conditioner, based on Nautalex's recommendation, our client found that they had fewer energy spikes, fewer computer lockups, employee productivity was up due to continuous computer operations, and they saved thousands of dollars by not repeatedly placing technician help-desk calls.

Would line conditioners work for you in preventing computer power interruptions? Ask Nautalex for a free consultation.