Computer Surge Protectors

Computers, Servers and Technology

Barbarians are at your server’s gate

Pity the poor IT professional who sits in dread that the system he is in charge of will fail. That describes about 99 out of 100 of them. Every day brings new challenges in maintaining the IT network and dealing with the people who use it. The last thing an IT pro wants to deal with is the destruction of his or her precious servers due to transient voltage surges. The potential loss of data, time and equipment is enough to make any sane person removes clumps of hair by the fistful. Enter, the Brick Wall.

Brick Wall surge protectors are the very best in the world from reaction time to endurance. These transient voltage surge suppressors were initially conceived and designed for mission critical systems in which failure was not an option. So, it naturally follows that Brick Wall surge protectors can take an absolute beating when it comes to surges while remaining ready to stop the next one.

The key design element that makes the Brick Wall better than any competitor is its endurance. We’ve taken off the shelf Brick Wall units and subjected them to one thousand (1000) 6000V, 3000A surges. That is far more surges than one can expect to see in a lifetime yet the Brick Wall passed that endurance test with flying colors. There isn’t a competitor in the world that could hope to come remotely close to that standard.

The next item near and dear to the discerning IT professional is response time of the TVSS to occurring surges. The vast majority of surge protectors use MOV’s which trigger at some level of nominal voltage usually 200 to 300 volts depending upon quality. Consider that the peak of the sine wave in nominal voltage is about 172 volts with surge occurring above that level and you have an idea when an MOV based device will clamp. Eschewing the voltage trigger used by MOVs, Brick Wall units track the sine wave and react at 1 to 2 volts over that sine wave. That’s a lower clamping voltage for those of you keeping score at home.

The Brick Wall’s method of determining a surge event would be impressive on its own if not for one more trick up its sleeve. And that trick is the Brick Wall design is in series versus in parallel with the circuit. What does that mean? Well, an MOV-based device has it’s MOVs wired in parallel which means the MOV must “turn on”. Now this “turn on” time is blazingly fast, usually measured in nano or pico seconds. But that “lag” is contributes to the system’s let thru voltage. Contrast that with the Brick Wall which is wired in series and provides an instantaneous clamp. The reason the clamp is instantaneous is the Brick Wall is constantly filtering your incoming power for surges as well as EMI/RFI interference.

So if you’re an IT professional looking to check one major problem off your list for the next decade or so, contact Brick Wall about protecting your server network from the hubs to computer workstations to the servers themselves.