Most businesses are aware of the damage lightning induced power spikes or sudden power outages can cause. But minor and less obvious voltage surges that originate in your own facility can be just as damaging by slowly eating away at internal circuitry. These surges can subtly impair equipment, resulting in erratic performance or premature failure that can be hard to diagnose and expensive to repair or replace.

Transient voltage surges affect your business every day and up to 80% are caused by internal sources. A transient surge is an over-voltage or over-current, typically lasting microseconds. These can range from only a few volts to more than 20,000 volts with currents in excess of 10,000 amps and can occur thousands of times per hour in extremely active industrial environments. Sources inside your facility can cause up to 80% of transients.

Switching copiers on and off, air conditioning and normal lighting fixtures produce transients. The effects on your system is semi-conductor degradation, premature failure, downtime, repairs and lost business.

Cleco has made a priority of delivering high quality power to our customers. We've combined our expertise and resources with those of leading companies in power quality to help you. We'll help you determine the protection and level of power quality your business needs at a cost that makes bottom-line sense.

Give us a call at 1-800-622-6537 or Contact Us via e-mail to find out more about our Power Quality Program.