PQSC Products: Technical Booklets

Energy Storage Devices

This guide provides a description of the various technologies and applications for saving and storing electric energy for use on demand or at a later time. Concepts and considerations for application of the various devices available or soon to be available are given along with the benefits and limitations for each technology.

Automatic Transfer Switches

This book shows how to optimize settings, minimize runtime, and maximize protection. Standby generators have long been used to provide a local source of power to a facility in the event of a utility supply power failure. While the technology of generating electricity has not changed greatly over the years, the control scheme to switch the power source between the utility and the back up generator (genset) has changed dramatically.

Distributed Generation Power Quality Guide

The booklet is for prospective DG developers, utility personnel, and anyone in the general public interested in distributed generation. The booklet is written to help professional planners as well as explain the electrical phenomena associated with distributed generation in terms a lay person can understand. It is beneficial to both power quality professionals and utility customers.

Soft Start Booklet

This booklet provides the basics for evaluating motor controller and starter application needs. Proper motor protection and starting provide benefits in reduced downtime and productivity. Soft starters reduce or soften the impact of motor starting compared to full voltage or other starting methods.

A Guide to Voltage Flicker

An understandable guide developed for utility personnel and other engineers to help explain the subject of flicker. The guide covers history, human perception, causes of flicker, how it is measured, standards, and flicker countermeasures.

Uninterruptible Power Supply Specifications and Installation Guide

This UPS Specifications and Installation 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. The guide brings certainty and safety to the daily operations of critical electronic-based equipment.

Power Quality In Your Commercial Office

Power Quality In Your Commercial Office gives managers and users of electronic equipment in the workplace the information they need to understand their power related operating problems, prevent them from occurring, and find solutions to those that may have already surfaced. This self-help brochure will show you how to avoid the costs of power quality problems, as well as ensure the safety and reliability of critical office equipment.

Power Quality in Your Home

Power Quality in Your Home provides consumers with easy, understandable explanations of potential power quality issues and clear guidelines on addressing them effectively. The problem solving table enables homeowners to safely perform their own trouble-shooting and provide simple solutions which save money.

Power Quality In Your Agricultural-Farm Facilities

Power Quality in Your Agricultural-Farm Facilities brochure addresses power quality problems as they are encountered by specific agricultural sectors. Included are: dairy, poultry, swine, and fish farms, ornamental horticulture nurseries and farms, and those needing soil irrigation and water processing facilities. The survey forms and problem solving table in this brochure provide the agricultural facility manager valuable tools for saving time and money, and for protecting property and livestock from potential losses due to power quality problems.

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

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

Motor Starter Specifications and Application Guide

This Specifications and Installation Guide provides valuable information to anyone responsible for ensuring electric motor performance and protection. It guides the user through the various approaches to motor protection and controller options including application evaluation, installation, and start-up procedures. The guide helps to clarify issues, which are often overlooked in ensuring motor performance and longevity.

Adjustable Speed Drive Power Quality Applications Guide

The Adjustable Speed Drive Power Quality Application Guide (ASD Guide) gives engineers, electricians, specifiers and installers the information they need to apply and troubleshoot problems caused by and to ASD's. This compact guide specially covers types of ASD's, how ASD's cause problems, and how to measure, diagnose, and specify ASD's to minimize problems.

Power Quality In Your Local Area Network (LAN)

Power Quality For Your Local Area Network (LAN) gives LAN managers and users the information they need to understand the affects of power problems on LAN systems, take actions to prevent problems from occurring, and to find effective solutions to those problems that may already exist. This brochure will help in avoiding the costs and inconvenience of power quality problems with networks large or small, as well as ensuring the safety and reliability of network components.

Power Factor Correction & Power Quality Brochure:

Since most loads in modern electrical distribution systems are inductive, there is an ongoing interest in improving power factor. The low power factor of inductive loads robs a system of capacity and can adversely affect voltage level. As such, power factor correction, through the application of capacitors, is widely practiced at all system voltages.

It is ironic to think that as steps are being taken to improve the operating efficiency at a facility, those very steps may be adversely affecting the facility in other ways. This is sometimes the case when power factor correction capacitors are installed at a facility. As an example, general application of capacitors on motors, when applied without regard to the connected system, can result in the inadvertent tuning of a system to a dominant harmonic. Although “harmonic problems” are attributed to many power system problems, it is sometimes overly used. There are other ramifications associated with the use of power factor correction capacitors such as voltage rise and switching transients. Each of these power quality concepts are discussed.

Power Quality Financial Risk Assessment Brochure

This brochure is designed to help utilities improve customer service by providing a common basis on which to discuss costs with customers. The brochure will help transform power quality issues into business decisions by matching the costs of these problems with the cost of the appropriate solutions. Material included covers the necessary background on power quality, methods for gathering power quality costs, formulas and examples of how to actually calculate the complete costs for these problems and it offers details on interpreting these costs in a manner useful for decision making.