Introducing the PowerGUARD Power Line Conditioner with intelligent Lightning, Spikes and Surge Protection
100% Designed, Developed & Manufactured in the U.S.A.
Protection that Pays
POWERGUARD.
Novatio Energy manufactures and distributes the PowerGUARD™ Power Conditioning System.
“The PowerGUARD System provides combined Return on Investment, power quality
improvements, power line conditioning, and surge protection that are superior to other
technologies. PowerGUARD can help reduce energy costs while protecting your home or
facility against the damaging effects of poor power quality.
The PowerGUARD unit incorporates unique magnetic choke technology that acts as an
“electrical shock absorber” to store energy that is typically wasted, and returns it to your
electrical distribution system. This helps to reduce the amount of energy needed from the
utility. The PowerGUARD is Electrical Testing Laboratory (ETL) approved for spike and surge
suppression including lightning.
Power Line Conditioning
Our exclusive 5-in-1 Power Protection & Power Correction Design:
Improves Power Factor
Protects against Spikes, Surges and Lightning
Reduces Total Harmonic Distortion
Extends Equipment and Appliance Life
Reduces kW demand on your residential or commercial system
PowerGUARD™ is engineered to combine the benefits of lightning protection, surge
suppression, harmonic filtering and power factor correction in one simple to use product.
Intelligent Technology
PowerGUARD™ includes magnetic chokes, inductive reactors, and capacitors providing a
system that not only protects your vital equipment from voltage spikes and surges, it also
conditions the voltage waveforms and helps balance unbalanced phases, which reduces the
power line losses and contributes to a net saving in real and reactive power.”
PowerGUARD™ protects your home or facility against the damaging effects of poor power
quality and reduces shut downs due to nuisance tripping of breakers.
Intelligent Technology
PowerGUARD™ is an inductive reactor and 60 HZ bandpass filter
Transformers (Inductor) and Magnetic Chokes (Reactor) act in opposite direction of source
current and recycle wasted energy back onto the electrical distribution system
Improves Power Factor as current that is fed back to the system reduces reactive power
Reduces total harmonic content by taking power off circuit to generate new power through
transformers which are filtered to 60 HZ
MOVs shunts spikes/surges equally across phases (20,000 amp rated by ETL) as the
disturbance is absorbed through the magnetic chokes. Disturbances DO NOT go to ground
No other technology solves as many power problems as the Novatio Energy PowerGUARD
Benefits & Features
ETL Rated for up to 20,000 Amps (Type 2 Surge Arrester) for Lightning, Ground-fault and Surge/Spike protection
Improved Power Quality
Energy Savings through Reduction in kW Demand and kWh Consumption
• 36 month or less payback (Based on $0.10 kWh)
Reduces Power Factor Penalties in those areas where penalties apply
• Improved Power Factor and Voltage with reduced KVAR, KVA and circuit amperage
Supports sustainability efforts by reducing fossil fuel usage while reducing CO2 and S02 emissions
Benefits & Features
Extends Electronics, Appliances, and Equipment life
Reduces electrical repairs
Reduces Harmonics
Easy to install
No maintenance required
Power Quality, Protection & Savings
Lightning Protection: Handles direct hits and saves your appliances and equipment; not shunt to ground
Surge Protection: Type 2; activates at 481 volts; not shunt to ground
Minimal Customization: Flexibility to add/subtract electrical loads systems without having to change or modify “Protection System”
Low Cost Solution: Lowest cost that delivers maximum benefits
Savings/Payback: Energy related products have long payback periods; less than three years and additional value added features
Power Factor Correction: Many areas have PF penalties; PF approaching 1.0 reduces Reactive Power and wasted energy
No Resonant frequency: A must; beware of capacitor only designs
Total Harmonic Distortion: ANSI <32%; Desired <10%; VFD1s and newer loads since the 19601s have created this problem; high THD results
in excess heat, tripping, overloads
Spike and Surge Protection
Inherent in the PowerGUARD System is the ability to provide superior spike and surge
suppression capabilities. A surge is any voltage increase lasting 3 or more nanoseconds. A
spike is any voltage increase lasting less than 3 nanoseconds. The PowerGUARD device detects
any surges or spikes traveling along one of the active phases and shunts it to the other two
phases. From there, the transformer/choke sets within the PowerGUARD device attenuate the
surge/spike through the action of the “chokes”, which use capacitors and inductors to resist the
change in voltage and associated change in current, and flatten out the waveforms. The
surge/spike is recycled as usable power for the circuit. The PowerGUARD System will also
protect the circuit against ground fault transients or lightning strikes which can enter the circuit
through the neutral conductor.
Reactive/Apparent Power & Amperage Reduction
The PowerGUARD System reduces the reactive power on the circuit through transformer action which produces current which leads voltage on each phase. The PowerGUARD System reduces reactive power in a fundamentally different way than power factor correcting capacitors, and does so without creating resonance. Each PowerGUARD Model power conditioner reduces reactive power. A reduction in reactive power results in a corresponding decrease in the apparent power on the circuit. This, in turn, results in a decrease in the amount of amperage on the circuit, which results in a decrease in real power demand as a result of reduced “Copper Losses” on the circuit. Copper losses manifest themselves as heat in motors and conductors and can reduce the useful life of motors, transformers and sensitive electronic equipment. The reduction in reactive power on the circuit also acts to “stiffen” the circuit by reducing overall circuit impedance. A “stiff” circuit will reduce the creation of voltage total harmonic distortion as a result of current harmonics.
Power Factor & Voltage Improvement
Power Factor is the ratio of real power to apparent power. Because the PowerGUARD System
reduces both real power demand and apparent power demand, the power factor is improved
and approaches unity, or 100%. Because the PowerGUARD System does not create resonance,
any leading Power Factor will have no effect on the performance or reliability of the equipment.
By improving voltage across each of the three phases (VAB, VBC, yeA), circuit amperage is
further reduced and motors will run cooler and last longer. Increased voltage will also lessen
the likelihood of equipment tripping off due to utility voltage sags.
Reduces Total Harmonic Distortion
The PowerGUARD System reduces the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the amperage and
voltage on the circuit to the loads by passing all power generated within the PowerGUARD
System through 60 Hz Band-PassFilters. Because the PowerGUARD System is connected to the
electrical circuit in parallel, some THD will continue to pass on to the operational loads.
However, because a significant portion of the power supplied to the load is “choked” to 60 Hz,
total THD supplied to the load is reduced.
This action significantly reduces the THO in the voltage and current provided to the operating motors, thus increasing motor efficiency. Problems associated with circuit harmonics include:
• Excessive Neutral Currents, where voltage harmonics result in additional current on the circuit
neutral conductor, resulting in additional heat, possible overloading and the need to install
additional neutral conductors.
• Overheated transformers, where harmonics generated on the secondary side of a delta- wye
transformer will circulate on the primary side of the transformer. Some types of transformer
losses, such as skin losses and eddy currents will increase by the square of the harmonic
order.
Reduces Total Harmonic Distortion
Overheated solenoid coils and lighting ballasts.
Positive, negative and zero sequence voltages on motors and generators, where certain harmonic frequencies will try to rotate the motor forward or backward, or simply heat up the motor.
Incorrect reading power meters, especially disc type watt-hour meters and averaging type current meters.
Failure of electronic equipment, including nuisance tripping and overload.
Nuisance tripping of circuit protection devices including false tripping of relays and failure of UPS devices to properly transfer.
Blown fuses and overheated power factor correction capacitors due to the effects of harmonics with circuit resonance.
Savings & Protection for Generators
By reducing the kWh consumption of the facility the generator will consume less fuel
With a generator supplying power to a facility, motors stopping and starting impact the generator by drawing down the voltage and creating transients
PowerGUARD™ helps stabilize the voltage while simultaneously reducing inrush current on motor startup, reducing the strain on the generator
As PowerGUARD™ improves Power Factor to nearly unity, it reduces the amperage draw on the generator needed for reactive power. This results in real fuel savings as well as to increase the amount of equipment that can be serviced by the generator
PowerGUARD™ reduces line noise and provides better balanced voltage and amperage
Savings & Protection for Generators
By reducing the kWh consumption of the facility the generator will consume less fuel
With a generator supplying power to a facility, motors stopping and starting impact the generator by drawing down the voltage and creating transients
PowerGUARD™ helps stabilize the voltage while simultaneously reducing inrush current on motor startup, reducing the strain on the generator
As PowerGUARD™ improves Power Factor to nearly unity, it reduces the amperage draw on the generator needed for reactive power. This results in real fuel savings as well as to increase the amount of equipment that can be serviced by the generator
PowerGUARD™ reduces line noise and provides better balanced voltage and amperage
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