Surge Suppression Incorporated® - Continued Commitment to Leading Industry Trends

October 9, 2007 - For several years Surge Suppression Incorporated has distinguished itself through industry-leading practices in Customer Value Enhancement/Customer Service, Standards Development and Technology Innovation.

Within the realm of Technology Innovation, Surge Suppression Incorporated has developed, maintained, and recommended the use of several design practices.

These include:

Ensuring that a customer's equipment is fully protected - that the suppression design incorporates full all-mode protection. For example, in a three-phase wye configured system, all available protection modes should incorporate discrete suppression componentry. Each line-toneutral, each line-to-ground, each line-to-line and neutral-to-ground will employ specific protection components suited to their individual voltage configuration.

Ensuring that TVSS devices with "sinewave tracking circuits" are designed such that the suppressor responds to the change in frequency at any given phase angle; whether that phase angle is 90, 180 or 270 degrees on the sinewave. EMI filtering is used by many to provide "sinewave tracking"; however EMI filtering alone does NOT provide the same response and is not as sensitive to the changes in high frequency (100kHZ) oscillatory ring-wave events, which are the most prevalent internal transient anomalies encountered.

Ensuring proper fuse coordination within the TVSS design system that is responsive to low, intermediate and high current abnormal overvoltage events without degrading the quality and responsiveness of the suppression network itself. This is accomplished thru the Surge Suppression Incorporated patent-pending fusing methodology.

What's Happening Now?

Customers are beginning to listen and understand the benefits of SSI technology innovation practices - and, they are specifying such practices in their requirements.

Competitors are realizing that customers are in fact understanding and specifying these practices.

Competitor Response?

Competitors have tried to discount and disprove the validity of these design practices. However, having not been successful at doing that, companies like Danaher, Eaton, APT and Snyder have begun to design or are now marketing some of these concepts. It seems that the industry is changing from the antiquated ideas and moving into the future by following in our footsteps. We are proud to have been the leader of the industry in these areas for the last 25 years.

Competitors now either practice all-mode protection with discrete component usage for each possible protection mode (per recommendations of IEEE and NEMA) or they claim all-mode protection.

Competitors now either practice a sinewave tracking methodology that is responsive to all phase-angles OR the claim that they have sinewave tracking capability.

Result?

Surge Suppression Incorporated continues to be a leader in the surge suppression industry!

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If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an Interview with the author, call Rick Lindsay at 888-987-8877, or email him at rlindsay@surgesuppression.com.