Wednesday, November 6, 2013

WHAT IS POWER FOR THE COMMON MAN??

Prevention is better than cure!!

Power for us is like water for a fish. Quality of Power is as important as the purity of water we drink. Due to paucity of supply from the grid and theft of energy, problems are faced during the transmission of power and consequently the quality of usable energy by the common man gets poorer. This is a bigger issue which is yet to be addressed fully by the authorities. Common man is anyone/all of us who are using it for household or for industrial use and we know how we are constantly facing problems due to power impurities. Our experience tells us that the most common problems faced by the users are improper or fluctuating voltages, surges, impurities or harmonics problems, improper neutral at sites etc. All these result into constant breakdown of household appliances, industrial motors and damages to costly machines, which means the cost of ownership of these appliances and equipments goes up and so does the cost of energy.

As a matter of fact, the user must now be aware that in India, shortage of power will be there for the next twenty years unless the government is able to establish generation plants. The problem of poor quality of power will persist and so will the scenario of escalated energy bills. Quality of power can be improved by conditioning of power and taking adequate energy management steps. Custom made Voltage Regulators designed to control and give constant output voltage helps to save on energy bills and prevent damages to plants due to improper or fluctuating voltages.

The user must keep in mind that the quality of transformer and voltage stabiliser plays the key role in preventing fluctuations. Installing a high quality & energy efficient transformer is important as it ensures that the distribution of power in desired region: plant or residential location happens smoothly. One must prefer custom made Voltage Regulators that are designed to control and give constant output voltage and helps save on energy bills and prevent damages occurring due to improper or fluctuating voltages. For existing electrical installations, regular diagnosis from reliable engineers is important. Participating in energy audits, diagnosis of installed machines helps monitor the health of power you are utilising.

We have carried out a few innovations in this field in the last decade contributing to the society. For specialised applications like CNC machines, we launched product under POWERWARE Brand namely, Isolation, Ultra isolation & Harmonics Offset transformers after giving some years of R&D. It helps to reduce the harmonic levels & prevents damages to such costly electronic machines by producing a new neutral at sites where getting perfect neutral is a problem and also reduce the overheating of equipments. As our corporate responsibility to the society, we have taken initiatives  of using solar techniques in manufacturing to develop customized products like Booster transformers (installed in Delhi Metro Rail lines) to boost the voltage levels at specific intervals. This helps improving the insulation quality.

Generally, as a user we refrain ourselves from taking preventive measures and making expenses on maintenance of costly machines. We feel this is the most important aspect for making use of healthy power. As a matter of fact, for critical applications, continuous monitoring of health of transformer is essential. Prevention is better than Cure. To know more about this, please contact our engineers at info@saielectricals.com or visit our website www.saielectricals.com.