The Seven Types of Power Problems
Learn about the most common types of power disturbances, what can cause them, what they can do to your critical equipment, and how to safeguard your equipment.
The widespread use of electronics has raised the awareness of power quality and its effect on the critical electrical equipment that businesses use. Many of the mysteries of equipment failure, downtime, software and data corruption, are the result of a problematic supply of power. However, for the industry to communicate and understand power disturbances and how to prevent them, common terms and definitions are needed to describe the different phenomena. This whitepaper will describe the most common types of power disturbances, what can cause them, what they can do to your critical equipment, and how to safeguard your equipment using the IEEE standards for describing power quality problems.
