Protected Colorado

Headquarters Ignacio, Co.

The Southern Ute Growth Fund has kept an eye on PhaseFree, Inc for the past 3+ years after we protected one of their gas gathering companies in 2005. PhaseFree was asked to give them a brief on TVSS safety, focusing on the difference between off-the-shelf surge suppression and the units we use for the military and our other clients. This was after an off-the-shelf surge suppressor caught on fire they were using. One very important fact to understand is that a surge suppressor is a sacrificial lamb used to sacrifice itself to protect sensitive electrical and electronic equipment; using surge suppression that is safe is paramount.

Shouldn't you protect your equipment with surge suppression designed to be safe?

PhaseFree is honored to be working with them to standardize their Surge Suppression Program.

Standardization for any company is a sign of experience. What the Southern Ute Utilities Division wants is reliable, trouble-free equipment. This pertains to anyone in today's economy; decreasing maintenance dollars and increasing equipment operational times is the sign of a strong organization focusing on reducing operational costs. The Waste Water Division decided after the Fresh Water division protected their equipment to standardize their operation by protecting everything. AC Power, Data, Phone, and Either Net are all protected with PhaseFree Surge Suppression. For any company utilizing SCADA systems, using the proper surge suppression will increase your system's operational up times and give you peace of mind that your system is a reliable part of your operation…

PhaseFree, Inc was asked by the US Forest Service to help make their remote Environmental Monitoring stations more reliable. We were up to the task, first protecting the main power into the facility; next, we protected the phone lines at the demark, assuring that their monitoring equipment would be isolated from any induced voltages and current through the phone lines.

The facility already had lightning rods installed on the antenna masts to help protect the equipment on the masts. The problem here was that the 2 braided ground cables were made of brass and aluminum, and the installer used a bronze connecting lug. What does all this mean? The dissimilar medal used created bi-metallic corrosion; this corrosion eliminated a good medal to medal bond, thereby eliminating a good ground for the lightning rods to function properly. After 25 years in the Navy, PhaseFree's VP, Steve Salka, knows how to fix this problem. If you have Lightning rods and you are not quite sure if they are functioning as designed and you don't have the proper surge suppression give PhaseFree a call and talk to Steve. It's very important to remember that without the proper surge suppression, lightning rods may cause more expense than you're planning on.

Chicago White Sox

The Illinois Sports Authority and the Chicago White Sox have been experiencing what all major cities experience all over the country, Transients, Surges, and power anomalies, all of which were causing problems for motors and sensitive electrical and electronic equipment. It's the distribution of electrical power that is the cause of most electrical problems. The stopping and starting of the large current drawing equipment throughout the stadium were causing a lot of internal anomalies within the power distribution system. The fluorescent lights and the stadium lights, as you can imagine, create their own set of problems. The anomalies observed prior to the installation of our Surge Suppression on one of their power panels had more than 27 transients large enough to affect sensitive electronics in less than 11 min. It's not a problem only generated by the stadium but a problem generated by everyone on the power grid and everyday life. These anomalies not only cause equipment failures, but how many times have you had your computer lock up? You re-boot the computer, and everything is fine until the next lockup. This is all caused by transients and power anomalies working on the internal components over a period of time.