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Why You Should  use
High Performance Protection on Hi-Tech Equipment

Table of Contents

1. What are good reasons for me to install High Performance hi-tech equipment protection?
2. What are differences between High Performance and conventional protection?
3. From what threats do I require protection?
4. How do I get protection from immediate damage?
5. How can High Performance protection possibly extend equipment life?
6. What other benefits do I get from a Hi-Performance protection system?
7. What about audio and video systems?
8. Why should I buy Electronic Specialists protection products?

What are good reasons for me to install High Performance 
hi-tech equipment protection ?

Here are some reasons our customers use 
High Performance equipment protection

• Protection from immediate damage
  ............. Save money
• Extend equipment life
  ............ Save money
• Faster Inter-Net downloads
  ............. Save time & money
• Greatly reduce equipment down-time
  ............ Save time & money
• Smoother, more reliable equipment operation
  ............ Save time & money
• Reduced system errors and rework
  ............ Save time & money
• Reduced disruption due to interference
  ............ Save time & money
• Improved Video reproduction & display
  ............ Higher quality viewing at work and at home
• Quieter, clearer Audio reproduction
  ............ Higher quality, more enjoyable audio at work and at home

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What are differences between High Performance and conventional protection? 

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From what threats do I require protection ?

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How do I get protection from immediate damage ?

Most immediate damage would be caused by high voltage Spikes & Surges and Voltage fluctuations. High Voltage Spikes can cause instantaneous component damage.

Spike/Surge Suppressors are widely available to counter the Spike & Surge threat. These suppressors run the gamut from very low cost, single element, slow response 1,000 Surge Amp units up to multi-stage rapid response 60,000 (or more) Surge Amp hybrid systems. 

Quality Protection Systems employ a combination of suppressor elements for superior spike / surge suppression and usually incorporate multi-element (sometimes multi-stage) interference filters to deliver the cleanest power possible to operating equipment.

See our filter-suppressor for office and small equipment protection.  Industrial equipment can be protected with our Twist-Type or Wire-in filter-suppressors.

Not surprisingly, as response speed, suppression capabilities and interference filtering rise, device cost also increases. The faster a protective device can respond to Spike voltage, the more protection your sensitive equipment receives.

For a given Spike threat, the more Surge Amps a protective device can handle, the better the Spike will be suppressed.

Voltage fluctuations can be controlled with a voltage regulator;
a high tech device designed to restore your high or low line voltage to normal operating conditions.

Two basic AC power regulators are available:
ferroresonant regulators
tap changer (voltage jumper) regulators.

Ferroresonant regulators (the more expensive device) operate to correct voltage variations on a continuous basis and also incorporate inherent spike/surge suppression and interference filtering. Some better designs boast supplemental spike, surge and interference suppression.

Tap changer regulators make 8 or 10 volt corrective jumps to restore equipment power to a level near optimum. They possess no inherent suppression or filtering capabilities, but usually incorporate at least minimum protective circuitry.

How to tell the difference between High Performance regulators and cheaper regulators?
1. Price; Ferroresonant regulators, being high end units, are more expensive
2. ferroresonant regulators usually advertise as such, while tap changers merely advertise as "voltage regulators"

Check out this FAQ for a detailed technical comparison between Ferroresonant and tap-changer (voltage jumper) regulators
to increase your understanding

See complete data on Electronic Specialists Kleen Line Regulators

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How can Hi-Performance protection possibly extend equipment life?

Luckily, not every high voltage spike, surge or voltage fluctuation causes catastrophic equipment damage.

Unluckily, component stress due to over voltage is cumulative. Over time, the net result of many overvoltage spikes often results in performance degradation or equipment failure.

Conclusion:
Hi-Performance protective equipment will shield your system from effects of harmful over voltage stress, extending equipment operating life

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What other benefits do I get from a Hi-Performance protection system?

With Hi-Performance protection
your system is subjected to many less over voltage spikes & surges
your equipment continues operating "like new " for much longer time

Daily operations will proceed much more smoothly.

Down time costs
- - - for some, maybe $100/hour
- - - for others, maybe $10,000/hour
- - - no matter how you slice it, down time is expensive.

Hi-Performance protection reduces downtime
- - - reduced downtime saves money !

Errors
- - - for some, errors are an inconvenience
- - - for others, errors are catastrophic
In every case, errors cost money.

Hi-Performance protection reduces errors
- - - reduced errors save time & money !

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What about audio and video systems?

In addition to elimination of equipment damage
and extended equipment life,
Hi-Performance filter/suppressor protection
enhances audio and video, whether live or reproduction

1. Hi-Performance filter-suppressor protection systems reduce even the lowest level spikes
Low level spikes are really high level noise interference bursts.
To the extent low level spikes are reduced,
overall audio/video quality is enhanced

2. High performance protection systems combine filters or filter-isolators with internal spike & surge suppression.
a...... These integral filters greatly reduce wide-band noise interference which would deteriorate sound/video fidelity
b...... Filters also reduce surge / spike residue remaining after suppressor spike clamping
................ View our filter-suppressors

c...... Filter-isolators effectively isolate audio/video system components from each other. Often these components interact over the AC power line, adversely affecting quality.
................ View our filter-isolators

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Why should I buy Electronic Specialists High Performance protection ?

Glad you asked.

We have prepared an entire page listing the many reasons Electronic Specialists High Performance protection will prove superior and cost effective for you.
Check us out.

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