Power Quality for Residential and Light Commercial

Understanding the basics of grounding, voltage fluctuation, power surges and other power quality fundamentals helps ensure safety as well as optimum performance of electronic equipment in your home and in the workplace.

These brochures and booklets provide excellent background on some of the most important power quality topics for residential and light commercial facilities.

Power Quality Brochures – Residential and Light Commercial

How to Buy a Surge Suppressor

This brochure is geared toward non-technical consumers. It provides easy-to-understand advice about why and how to shop for point-of-use surge suppressors. It defines the four specifications that are considered to be minimum requirements for adequate protection and offers basic information about where surges come from and what equipment needs to be protected.

Adjustable Speed Drive

This brochure provides information on the proper use of adjustable speed drives and offers advice on reducing harmonic current, increasing voltage and transient tolerance, avoiding shut-downs and increasing reliability and performance.

Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)

This brochure offers straightforward advice on shopping for, buying, installing and operating UPS equipment to ensure performance and avoid typical power quality problems.

Black Box

With power rates on the rise, the pressure is greater than ever to be more efficient and to reduce costly interruptions and other power problems. This causes facility managers and others to consider "black boxes" to solve these problems. But do they really work? How can you separate those that work from those that don't? Are you buying more than you need? This handy brochure provides guidance in simple, understandable language to answer these questions.

Power Quality Booklets – Residential and Light Commercial

Power Quality in Your Home

This booklet provides consumers with easy, understandable explanations of potential power quality issues in the home including transients, noise, harmonic distortion, sag, swell, undervoltage, overvoltage and interruption.

Power Quality in Your Commercial Office

This booklet gives managers and users of electronic equipment in the workplace the information they need to understand and prevent power-related operating problems. It covers ways to avoid the costs of power quality problems as well as ensure the safety and reliability of critical office equipment.

Power Quality in Your Local Area Network (LAN)

This booklet gives LAN managers and users the information they need to understand the effects of power problems on a local area network (LAN) and help avoid the associated costs and inconvenience they can cause.

Grounding for Safety and Power Quality

This is booklet focuses on grounding electrical distribution systems rated at 1000 v or less for personal safety and equipment protection as well as improved power quality through noise control.

A Guide to Voltage Flicker

This booklet serves as an understandable guide for utility personnel and other engineers to help explain flicker. It covers history, human perception and causes of flicker as well as how it is measured, standards and flicker countermeasures.

Uninterruptible Power Supply Specifications and Installation Guide

This guide provides valuable information to anyone responsible for system configuration, installation and protection from disabling power quality disturbances. It guides the user through uninterruptible power supply equipment choices, application evaluation, installation guidelines, start-up, operations and maintenance procedures.

Transient Voltage Surge Suppression (TVSS) for Commercial / Residential Applications

This guide provides valuable information to anyone responsible for electronic equipment performance and safety. It covers surge suppresser equipment choices and options, application evaluations and installation guidelines as well as operations and maintenance procedures. The guide brings certainty and safety to the daily operations of critical electronic-based equipment.

Energy Storage Devices

This guide provides a description of the various technologies and applications used for saving and storing electric energy for use-on-demand as well as the benefits and drawbacks of each solution.