Transient Voltage Surge Suppressors (TVSS)
Transient voltage surges are erratic electricity patterns - spikes & surges - that damage your equipment.

The excess electrical energy from these transients bombard equipment with more power than the equipment requires. All at once via lightning, or slowly over time, equipment overheats, parts expand beyond tolerances, motors are forced to use more power, and circuits fail.

The result is premature equipment failure, higher maintenance costs, and increased power consumption due to excessive heat.

Transients come from two sources:
• External - lightning strikes, power grid modulation
• Internal - motors & other electrical devices turning off and on (more than 95% of transient voltage is internally generated)

Transients are responsible for a substantial percentage of premature equipment failure and therefore unnecessary capital equipment spending. Excess electricity creates heat buildup on everything from motors to microprocessors.

This heat buildup causes moving parts in motors to expand and therefore cause internal friction, which in turn produces even more unnecessary heat. Essential lubricants also break down. Equipment responds by working even harder and drawing even more electricity in a damaging and wasteful cycle of inefficiency. As power consumption increases, the power bills increase. So do the chances of early equipment failure.

Solution = Our TVSS equipment

Our TVSS products stops damaging transients and their costly effects with best-of-breed TVSS clamping devices installed on your electrical panels.

Our TVSS products work in three ways to stop the damaging effects of transients while increasing motor efficiency and extending electrical equipment life.

1. Our TVSS products clamp surges FAST. Our equipment reacts to the presence of surge activity in 5 nano seconds.

2. Our TVSS products clamp surges COMPLETELY, as low as 10% over nominal voltage. This low clamping level ensures that equipment receives ONLY the amount of electricity it needs.

3. Our TVSS products are installed on all electrical panels in your business in order to eliminate ALL surges, internal and external.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the significance of UL 1449 2nd Edition Listing? Why was it changed?
UnderwriterÕs Laboratories (U.L.) changed their standards for a number of reasons. The original standard was over 13 years old and a lot has changed in the industry since then. The Òreal worldÓ was the primary reason for the change, thoughÑit was found that the existing standard did not reflect what was really affecting equipment and facilities in the field.

Our TVSS products have been listed as meeting the requirements of this new standard and were one of the first in the industry to do so. The changes in the standard are profound. The old standard had no requirements for fail-safe protection or protection from shocks after damage. The old standard required units to survive 2 500-amp surges and the new standard requires them to survive 2 3000-amp surges. The old standard only required survival after 24 125-amp surges while the new standard requires equipment survive 20 500-amp surges. This is quite a difference. A number of additional tests were added to the standard. For example, equipment must now be capable of withstanding a 25,000-amp fault current at the full phase service voltageÑit even requires the unit to withstand over 7 hours of sustained high voltages!

In all, the old standard contained approximately 39 pages of requirementsÑthe new standard is a full 102 pages long!

What is the difference between your TVSS product and a "voltage stabilizer"?
Our TVSS product is a transient surge suppression system by legal terminology. A voltage stabilizer is nothing more then a unit that regulates voltage. Our TVSS System does more than regulate voltage. It regulates voltage, it has phase protection built into it, it has arrestor protection built into it, and it provides some power factor correction through new technology.

What is the difference between your TVSS product and a "capacitor bank"?
Our TVSS products do not store voltage. A capacitor bank is little more than a large battery. In power systems they are generally used and tuned to correct for large power factor corrections. Ironically, in correcting one problem, they tend to introduce another. Power Factor Capacitors are a major source of damaging transients. What is the difference between your TVSS product and a power factor corrector? A power factor corrector is treating a specific problem in a power system (harmonics reducing the power factor) and provides no other protection.

What does "Clamping Voltage" mean?
The clamping voltage is the voltage level that the unit reacts at. For example, if we set the clamping voltage on a 120v unit at 132 volts, when the voltage reaches 132 volts (well within the CBEMA power curve) the unit reacts. Our TVSS System has the LOWEST clamping voltage of any unit on the market.

If we connect your TVSS product to a motor does the operating temperature of the motor go down and how much? And does the noise of the motor go down and how many dBs? Motor temperatures tend to drop over a 24 to 48 hour period after installing the equipment. The benefit they see is immediate, but it takes time to dissipate the heat they've already built up. Over the next few days there are smaller decreases in temperature and efficiency depending upon the type of motor. For example DC motors will see a greater efficiency over a slightly longer period because once Our TVSS System has removed the transient factor, the brushes and commutators will actually "heal" themselves by polishing off the arcing caused by transients and making better electrical contact. It is not unusual to see a 7 to 15 degree drop in temperatures over 48 hours.

If you mean vibration "noise" there is a reduction over time because the motor tends to run "smoother". Voltage variations and contact arcing produce some of the vibration in motors. If you mean electronic "noise", the motor definitely gets quieter because most of the electronic noise is the direct result of transient activity, whether it is produced by the motor or reacting on the motor.

Are your TVSS products considered digital or analog?
Our TVSS System is completely solid state. There are no moving parts in it what so ever. There's no computer in it so it would probably best be described as an electronic analog device. It acts like a digital device in that it's either "on" or "off". As long as nothing is wrong, Our TVSS System does absolutely nothing. The instant voltage rises to above the clamping level Our TVSS System reacts.

Are your TVSS products more effective when it is running at 60 Hz or 50 Hz and why? Voltage transmitted at 60Hz is more efficient so the comparative savings as a percentage are not as much. Voltage at 50 Hz produces greater heating effects and each electrical device is getting between 10 and 30 less "impulses" a second to do it's work. It helps to compare the two as an 8-cylinder motor (60 Hz) and a 6-cylinder motor (50 Hz). Therefore, you will get a better effect in 50 Hz systems.

We reduce the workload of the motor or vehicle protected. It's like a dog chasing its tail.

How does eliminating transients reduce energy usage?
The devices that consume the most energy in both the commercial and residential markets are driven by magnetic mass. Your motors are little more than large electromagnets.

Transformers that are also very similar to large electromagnets drive your fluorescent lights. Transients produce what is known as an "eddy current" effect in electrical systems, which reduces the system's efficiency. Because they operate less efficiently they produce more heat.

Transients also produce fluctuations in voltage, which create conditions in magnetic-mass driven devices that cause them to either draw more current than required which also produces more heat. The sharp increases in voltage are more than the devices are designed to operate at and the sharp and sudden increase in resistance produces more heat.

Simply put? Eliminated Transients = Reduced Heat.

Can you describe EXACTLY how transients heat motors and transformers (ballasts)?
All electrical equipment is designed to operate within a narrow operating range of supply voltage. For example, if you supply a motor or transformer with slightly more than the rated voltage, the current draw drops and you get less heating. Give it just a little more voltage, however, and you produce heating. If you supply it with even a little less than the rated voltage you immediately increase current draw because the motor (or any inductive device) must "work" harder to maintain its rated output.

When a transient is introduced a sharp rise in voltage is the result. It will almost always exceed the 6% to 10% over voltage the device is designed to operate at and it will produce heat. The voltage does not immediately return to its normal level. It will drop below the original supply level proportionally to its rise above it (the phenomena is known as "oscillatory ringing"). This cycle is repeated with smaller swings each time (like a pendulum coming to a stop) until it returns to its original steady state. Most of these swings will rise above and below the amounts, which will cause heating in electrical devices. In multiple phases, these transients and swings can be induced in other leads that run parallel to them, so a transient in one leg of a power circuit can be introduced in both of the other wires even though they are not connected (through induction).

If you can stop the first transient immediately you can eliminate or greatly reduce this swing above and below the rated voltage in the following cycles, and eliminate the possibility of inducing the transient to nearby cables.

So how are your TVSS products different from your competitor's equipment?
Our TVSS products are different from the competition in FIVE important aspects:

• Our TVSS System products have the lowest clamping voltage of any suppressor on the market. For example, most of our competitors will clamp a 120-volt line at close to 300 volts! We'll clamp at about 132 volts--that's quite a difference. Since we clamp at a lower voltage, the following voltage oscillations will be smaller, and in fact, none will exceed the clamping voltage.

• Our TVSS products react between 10 and 100 times faster than the competition. It can stop many more transients than the competition can even "see". You'll hear competitors say, "Reaction time isn't as important". Guess why. You'll hear competitors say "There's no fixed way of measuring reaction speed so it's not a factor." That's because there's no standard for measuring the speed. Some measure it at the actual device (not at the ends of the leads that connect to your system) and claim amazing results.

• Our TVSS products have proven their speed with 12-inch leads--the same way we install them.

• Our TVSS products haveone of the fastest recovery times of any suppressor on the market. This allows it to do it's job, reset, and be prepared to stop the next event before many of our competitors can even see the start of the event!

• Our TVSS products have the longest warranty of any surge suppressor on the market, "Lifetime".

If your TVSS products do all you say why aren't they everywhere?
Our TVSS products are manufactured by a relatively small company. The components they use are not off-the-shelf and must be custom-made. It is only within the last few years that their ability to increase their supply has been expanded. Also, as a small company, their research and development costs consume a much larger portion of their income, which inhibits fast growth however they remain committed to continually improving the product.

Our TVSS products may be the best at transient surge suppression, but they are difficult to distinguish in a sea of mediocre producers, most of which spend more in marketing than in research and continuous improvement and market their products as energy savings devices, not protection devices.

We have short and long-term financing available through multiple companies nationally and internationally. These companies do not make it a practice to make loans on up to hundreds of thousands of dollars on products that do not work. Remember that they technically own it until it's paid for. Would you finance something and pay the vendor the entire cost of equipment and installation (literally within hours of installation) if there were a chance the product would not produce the expected result? Our lenders sure won't!

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