Dirty Power is any disruption in voltage, current or frequency that interrupts production, and it can happen at any time and for any reason, from bad weather to curious animals exploring utility substations. Fact is, 98% of all Dirty Power events are caused by voltage sags lasting less than two seconds. NOT surges. NOT brown outs. Voltage sags. 60% of them last less than 0.1 seconds and are barely perceptible to the human eye. But when that power is driving sensitive equipment, the consequences are all too easy to see. Machines go off-line. Precision instruments fail. Your operation grinds to a halt.

This triggers a thorough inspection of the line and a frantic search for the cause, but the power sag has already moved on through the system. Power returns to nominal levels, inspection of the machines reveals no mechanical issues, a cause is theorized and entered into the production log, and the operation is restarted. But the damage—in lost time, efficiency, labor and materials—is irreversible and in some cases, unrecoverable.

And another voltage sag could happen at any time.

We can supply the means to diagnose and reduce—and even prevent—Dirty Power events. With Grid Alert™ event notifications from our I-Grid intelligent network, you’ll receive accurate, near-time confirmation of voltage sags, giving you the ability to correlate Dirty Power events with unscheduled downtime and save hours of guesswork and mechanical diagnostics. And with the DySC battery-free UPS, your lines receive an unbroken flow of clean energy, keeping your operations running smoothly and maximizing your MTBF (mean time between failure). DySC is designed to be extremely low maintenance, with no batteries and no moving parts to maintain or replace.