Your Customer: The Most Expensive Component to Replace in Your Business

Reinforce customer allegience to you! Educate them on the benefit of self-sacrificing, replaceable ancillary surge protection for their sensitive low-voltage applications. Aside from user-error, over-voltage and dirty power are the greatest cause of false alarms. These two issues are also primary contributors to system degradation, disruption and destruction.

Eclips Surge Protection Devices

help reduce false alarms and add longevity to equipment life.

Hybrid Technology

Our unique combination of surge components are robust and self-restoring. They are designed to provide ideal protection from all types of over-voltage/amperage threats to the sensitive electronics that constitute your RMR.

•Gas Tubes

and

Metal Oxide Varistors (MOV)

provide high energy capability which increase strength

•Silicon Avalanche Diodes (SAD)

provide tighter over-voltage clamp levels which increase performance

•Positive Temperature Coefficients (PTC)

limit current to enhance the level of protection

Proper Product Selection

The result of utilizing quality transient voltage surge surpressor solutions are not difficult to predict; they work. Proper product selection is

essential

in achieving optimal results. Know this information in order to select the proper surge protection device (SPD).

1. Number of conductors: How many wires are connected to the electronics being protected?

It is copper system wiring that poses the actual threat. Each conductor should be treated as such, passed through a SPD that will restrict voltage to a safe threshold.

2. Peak Operating Voltage: How much voltage should be present for normal system function?

3. Amperage present during system operation: Is there more than, or less than 150 milliamps of current present during normal system operation?

To know the actual amount of amperage is not essential, just know the answer to this question so as to make ideal product selection.

4. Connection method: How does the equipment's power and field wiring connect or terminate?

Select a product that connects in the same manner as the equipment being protected. i.e., screw terminals, BNC connectors, modular RJ45, hard wire.

Best-Practice Installation Tip

Allow the surge protector ample reaction time (that time during which the SPD will be discharging energy to ground) by providing an adequate "wire distance" between the surge protector and the electronics being protected. Typically, 3-5 wire feet is sufficient and practical. Allow that the wire distance from the surge protector to the protected equipment be greater than the wire distance from the surge protector to ground being utilized.

A transient is seeking a means to ground and will do so by the most attractive (expedient) one present. The example here is electronically sound, and one of many tips available from our Eclips technical support staff offered to you by Space Age Electronics, Inc. 1-800-486-1723.