Computer Environments Inc Information

Computer Environments develops modular designs for Surge Protection or T.V.S.S. devices that are scalable. We have over 20 years field experience integrating surge suppression or T.V.S.S. products into Computer room, Networking, Industrial Process Control, Laboratory and Telecommunication applications. Our engineered solutions comply with I.E.E.E. Standard 1100 and C62.41. At Computer Environments our Power Quality Specialist's can design a system that may be backed with a written performance guarantee. This is your assurance that you will receive the protection that you expect. Our Surge Protection or T.V.S.S. devices may be the best protection dollar value spent when equiping your I.T. and Industral Process Control environment. With one of the broadest line of Surge Protectors or T.V.S.S. products in the industry, Computer Environments excels at helping customers understand how to select a surge protector or T.V.S.S. system that will deliver the level of performance that they require. Many times customers think that surge protectors or T.V.S.S. products eliminate surges or they read the specs on a surge protector and see energy levels and peak surge current ratings that seem so large that they think they will be safe with anything that calls itself a surge suppressor. The results can be catastrophic to your business. No surge protector or T.V.S.S. device eliminates voltage surges unless the voltage surge is extremely small. EVERY surge protector or T.V.S.S. product attenuates a voltage surge. The result of this process is what the industry calls Measure Limiting Voltage or Let-Thru Voltage. Surge suppressor performance is easy to ascertain if you expose to surge suppressors to an identical surge and meausure the Measured Limiting Voltage or Let-Thru voltage. The Measured Limiting Voltage or Let-Thru voltage is the voltage that your equipment sees after the surge protector or T.V.S.S. operates. It is important to remember, with all surge suppressrs, the bigger the voltage surge, the bigger the Measure Limiting Voltage or Let-Thru Voltage. So if you have a large voltage surge, you will have a large Measured Limiting Voltage or Let-Thru voltage that may damage your equipment. In fact, if the voltage surge exceeds the peak surge curent rating of the surge protector or T.V.S.S., it will likely damage or destroy the surge protector or T.V.S.S.! So how do you keep your electronics safe from a large power surge like lightning? We recommend that you consider information contained in the Cianos and Pierce Study cited in IEEE Standard 1100. Their study indicated that lightning energy levels can be as high as 1,000,000 amps. Furthermore, according to Cianos and Pierce, nearly 99.9 % of direct lightning strikes are less than 300,000 amps. While the simple approach might be to select a surge protector or T.V.S.S. rated at 300,000 amps per mode for the service entrance of your building, the fact is, you can achieve a much higher level of surge protection for less money, with a Modular Approach to surge protection.