Latin America. During the Christmas and New Year's Eve season, it is when energy consumption increases and power supply failures increase due to overloads, exaggerated connection of lights and Christmas decorations; these situations that characterize this season, can cause short circuits, fire connates, breakdown of electrical equipment and even damage to people by burns.
Therefore, Tripp Lite offers some practical advice for these failures in the power supply and avoid damage not only to equipment, but to people who could be exposed to witness a fire caused by short circuit.
Here are some suggestions to prevent fires and protect equipment from electrical accidents in this beautiful holiday season:
- Check the contacts and power connections around the place.
- Disconnect all appliances that require energy and check if the electric meter continues to mark consumption, if so, there is a possibility that there is an electrical leak in the installation.
- Energy variations in some areas of the city suggest recommending at least the use of a peak suppressor.
- These drastic variations in the power supply, as well as discharges in power lines can put at risk or damage equipment with valuable information and cause even fire outbreaks, which can be prevented by installing peak suppressors, regulators or UPS.
- We should not saturate the connections of the traditional multicontacts, in order to avoid a short circuit and even a probable fire.
- Acquire extensions or suppressors from reliable and quality brands.
As for equipment protection, it should be borne in mind that a problem of lack of energy backup causes the loss of information even money, so the importance of having the advice of an energy specialist to give us the best recommendation both in the quality of the equipment and in the way they should be installed.
It is important to consider 3 protection features for computer equipment, entertainment or in the office: suppression, regulation and backup. In this way the UPS can withstand a discharge and go to battery to give time to properly close the files or programs in use of the computer, without fear of losing the information.
To protect more robust solutions at home, SMB or data centers, it will be necessary to use a SUitable UPS for equipment that requires protection and backup against electrical failure.
There are some Lines of Tripp Lite UPS for different needs, for example: the OmniSmart1500 UPS, Smart1200LCD UPS or the AVR900 UPS for gammers or protection of home theaters and audio systems; in the case of equipment for SMEs, the Smart2200VS line of 2 kVA or Smart5000RT3U of 5 kVA and finally the DOUBLE CONVERSION UPS SU30K3/3 or SU40K works, for mission-critical devices such as those installed in Data Centers or video surveillance classrooms.
