Surges, Sags and Spikes: Protecting Your Personal Computer from Electrical Power Problems - Softcover

Waller, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0790610191 ISBN 13: 9780790610191

Publisher: Prompt Publications,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

This guide is written for all personal computer users concerned about protecting their computer systems against a hostile electrical environment. Written in easy-to-understand, non-technical language, it takes a comprehensive look at approaches to solving computer power problems. Diagrams and photographs are included to document computer power needs and solutions.

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From the Publisher

The Necessary Power Guide for All PC Users!
Surges, sags, spikes, brownouts, blackouts, lightning, and other damaging electrical power disturbances can render a personal computer system and its data useless in a few milliseconds--unless you're prepared.

Mark Waller's Surges, Sags and Spikes is written for all personal computer users concerned with protecting their computer systems against a hostile electrical environment. In easy-to-understand, non-technical language, Mark Waller takes a comprehensive look at approaches to solving computer power problems. Helpful diagrams and photographs are included to document computer power needs and solutions.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter information includes large and small computers, peripheral speeds, data storage, quality of power, and power devices.

Chapter 2: Basic Electricity
Chapter information includes AC power, Ohm's law, power, impedance, the power factor, transformers, and Kirchhoff's law.

Chapter 3: Recognizing Power Problems
Chapter information includes impulses, noise, dropouts, surges, sags, overvoltage, undervoltage, brownouts, blackouts, outages, computer tolerances, survival time, power quality, and inside and outside power.

Chapter 4: Voltage Transients
Chapter information includes lightning, static, and noise, as well as how to minimize their damage.

Chapter 5: Grounding
Chapter information includes safety, floating grounds, single-point grounding, and ground loops.

Chapter 6: PC Power Supplies
Chapter information includes principles of DC power supplies, switching power supplies, noise and power supplies, and beyond power supplies.

Chapter 7: Transient Suppression Devices Chapter information includes filters, diverters, MOVs at work, and MOVs in circuits.

Chapter 8: Surge Suppressors
Chapter information includes simple surge suppressors, the anatomy of a spike, hybrid circuits, total protection, and complex surge circuits.

Chapter 9: Power-Line Conditioners
Chapter information includes: isolation transformers, capacitive coupling, common-mode noise, normal-mode noise, lumped capacitance, UL listed devices, and power distribution.

Chapter 10: Voltage Regulators
Chapter information includes: why use voltage regulation, tap-switching regulators, ferroresonant voltage regulators, technologies compared, and a summary.

Chapter 11: Standby Power Systems
Chapter information includes: SPS building blocks, transfer time, making waves, noise, synchronicity, brownouts, batteries, the ideal SPS, and power conditioning.

Chapter 12: UPS Designs
Chapter information includes: why a UPS, ferroresonant UPSs, triports, line-interactive UPSs, the RUPS, and a UPS wrap-up.

Chapter 13: LANs, Desktop Publishing, and Other Final Thoughts
Chapter information includes: local area networks, data cabling, ground loops, protection, application of a UPS, orderly shutdowns, and final thoughts.

About the Author
Mark Waller is president of the Waller Group, Inc., a company specializing in solving electrical power and grounding problems for computers and other sensitive electronic equipment. Mark designs data centers and other special purpose, high-tech installations. He is sought as a speaker and trainer, and lectures for companies and colleges such as IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, the University of Wisconsin, and Southern California Edison. His articles have appeared in Byte, Datamation, and Network World, and he has written two other books for PROMPT Publications: Harmonics, and Managing the Computer Power Environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prompt Publications,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0790610191
• ISBN 13: 9780790610191
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240