If you believe in all things green or have decided to go off the grid due to convenience, care and cost – whichever way you view the situation you are going to need a little knowledge on how solar batteries will work for you and your solar system.
Many home owners that are planning on installing a solar panel system don’t usually concern themselves with the many choices of solar batteries that are available. Read the rest
Nine Things You Should Know When Choosing Surge Protection
Because surge protection is an inexpensive way to protect your electrical equipment against power surges and dips, brown-outs and blackouts, everyone should think about being protected.
As their name implies, surge protection prevents voltage spikes from entering a device such as a computer or other electrical equipment and applications. Read the rest
UPS systems are useful tools for ensuring that there will always be a proper, continuous power supply performance at all times.
An uninterruptible power supply, also referred to as an uninterruptible power source, UPS or battery/flywheel backup, is an electrical device that offers alternative power to a load when the input power source or mains power goes pear-shaped.
Because UPS Systems in South Africa come in a variety of shapes, arrangements and sizes, you need to ensure that you choose the one that is just right for you and your electrical equipment. Read the rest
A Voltage Stabiliser is also referred to as an Automatic Voltage Stabiliser, AC Voltage Stabiliser or Voltage Regulator.
An Automatic Voltage Stabiliser has been created to automatically maintain a constant level of voltage so that your electrical equipment would be protected at all times against over-voltage, under-voltage as well as surges, leveling impulsive noise. Read the rest
Important Stuff You Need to Know About Battery Backup Systems
Granted an inexpensive power strip might do the job quite adequately to protect your computer or other equipment from power dips and hikes but it will not help when it comes to power outages and when your systems come to a halting crash.
There is important stuff you need to know about battery backup systems – something that everyone should know if they have experienced power dips and spikes or rolling blackouts. Read the rest
You will now be able to avoid data centre catastrophes with state-of-the-art UPS systems. A UPS system – uninterruptible power supply, is a device that enables a computer to keep up and running for a period of time when the main power source goes down. It also offers protection from power dips and surges.
Your uninterruptible power supply contains a battery that kicks in when the device picks up a loss of power from the main power source. Read the rest
Selecting a battery cabinet is just as important as investing in the actual UPS Battery – not only will a smart-looking battery cabinet be more aesthetically appealing – it will protect your expensive battery from getting damaged and exposed to the environment, plus you need to house your UPS battery for safety reasons. Read the rest
We tend to bury our heads in the sand when we don’t experience blackouts and power-outages, soon forgetting that these are both unpleasant, cost us money and simply destroy electrical equipment.
Load-shedding is only for the winter months when everyone needs power to cook and to warm their homes, to keep their offices running and the air-conditioning units in office blocks and shopping centres up and running – right? Read the rest
Albert Einstein once said “we cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”. Well said, Einstein, but we still have an issue when it comes to the energy and power dilemma we are faced here in South Africa. Read the rest
