Company: Advanced Protection Technologies Inc
City: Clearwater
Country: USA
url: http://www.apttvss.com
Advanced Protection Technologies, Inc. (APT) is a leadingmanufacturer of hard wired TVSS products located in central Florida,heart of lightning activity. Surge suppression is crucial to any powerquality and power protection system, including lightning protection andthree phase power systems. Surge protectors guard against transientovervoltages, sometimes called transients, spikes or surges, hence thename Transient Voltage Surge Suppressor or TVSS. Transients are known to damage sensitive electronic equipment in homes, schools, commercial,industrial and medical facilities, wastewater treatment plants,factories, etc. Transient overvoltages come from lightning and utilityoperations as well as internal actions such as motors cycling on andoff. Transients have always been with us, however modern microelectronic loads tend to be sensitive to them. The downtime, damage and destruction caused to critical or electronic loads cost billions of dollars a year.
APT’s specialty is hardwired TVSS that connects to electricaldistribution gear in single, two pole, and three phase power systems.Typically, a TVSS connects via a breaker and protects the entire loadfed from that panel. Most TVSS are comprised of Metal Oxide Varistors(MOVs) and capacitive EMI/RFI noise filters. UL 1449 is an importantsafety and performance standard.
