Medical facilities are under increased pressure to ensure availability of critical systems, and protect their electrical infrastructure, while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. According to Bender UK, ‘the impact of complex system interactions such as flicker, transients, and harmonic components, is felt in the form of faults, failures and, in the worst case, irreparable damage to equipment and systems’.
The company says its LINETRAXX power quality monitoring (PQM) units equip clinical facilities to substantially reduce costs by identifying faults before they become a problem. The PQM devices also act as energy meters while checking the system quality, determining the energy consumption per cost centre.
Bender said: “For example, LINETRAXX can show the effects of faulty network components or interaction and interference on the efficiency of the network. PQM units also safeguard the quality of electricity supply by tracking and recording fluctuations in current. Power quality monitoring is particularly effective when combined with residual current monitoring and advanced on-line earth fault location systems to monitor power systems.”
Bender says employing its COMTRAXX CP700 Condition Monitor with LINETRAXX (see photo) enables FM teams to see actual and potential ‘hotspots’ in a system; for example identifying lights, heaters, and computers that have been left switched on.
