Extending the Life of Electronics
A Chaotic Power Grid Puts Electronics at Risk
It’s time for a wake-up call regarding the role of power in electronics protection. While electronics continue to grow increasingly more sophisticated, the grid powering them is seriously antiquated.
The original two-prong electrical plug and socket were invented and patented in 1904. The next advance came in 1928 when a third ground prong was added to reduce electrical shock. With this end-user-friendly design, power grids expanded nationwide to provide rudimentary power yet have received few substantial updates.
Businesses and consumers often use Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) and surge protectors against grid fluctuations, believing these devices adequately protect electronics from damage. However, power grid research consistently identifies surge as a minority among the more frequent and destructive disturbances emitted from the grid. Voltage sags, brownouts, over-voltage conditions, and power outages have a far greater impact on reliability and lifespan than surges and spikes.
With Innovolt’s electronics protection technology, consumers and businesses alike can protect valuable electronic equipment from 99.5% of power disturbances.
Symptoms of At Risk Electronics
Electronics across industrial, commercial, and residential environments share two characteristics: all require power to operate and are significantly impacted by complex power disturbances. An inconsistent power grid puts the reliability and efficiency of electronic equipment in constant jeopardy. Functionality problems include:
- Lockups
- Resets
- Random error codes
- Power supply failures
- Death
Leaving electronics vulnerable threatens productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Businesses and consumers often remain unaware of devastating effects of long-term exposure until it’s too late.
Power Protection Landscape to Date
Traditionally, power protection options have been limited to under-functioning surge protectors for after-market consumer use or expensive and unwieldy technologies such as UPS.
These conventional technologies restrict long-term, effective safeguarding of valuable electronics from the damaging grid events taking an increasing toll on sensitive equipment. UPS technology is effective from a technical standpoint, protecting against disturbances by isolating electronics from the grid and powering them by battery. However, UPS options are prohibitively expensive for most applications and far too large to integrate into electronics. Thus, users either use nothing or turn to inexpensive surge protection that only shield electronics from less than one percent of damaging power disturbances.
Meanwhile, Innovolt’s revolutionary solution delivers a comprehensive platform of protection that's effective and affordable for the mass-market majority of electronics suppliers and consumers.
Innovolt Technology Is the Future of Electronics Protection
Innovolt’s advanced technology provides intelligent electronics protection at a price point and form-factor accessible to nearly all users. Product can be placed in front of electronic power supplies to shield sensitive electronics from power anomalies or integrated into the equipment design. Moreover, this flexible platform provides coverage for all electronics regardless of size, deployment, or industry.
The result: a holistic, intelligent approach for managing and monitoring electronics with improved performance, reliability, and longevity of equipment, as well as fewer service calls.
Electrical disturbances happen while we are at work, asleep, during our lunch breaks, after hours — any time, without warning. Are you as protected as you should be?
