Barclays Specify ESP
After testing many of the leading mains overvoltage and surge protectors on the market today, Barclays Bank have specified Furse Electronic Systems Protectors as THE effective solution to transient overvoltages for problem areas within Barclays.
The problems transient overvoltages ('surges', 'spikes', etc) cause to computer based equipment are well known - failures ... crashes ... lock-ups ... and unexplained errors.
But how do you choose an effective transient protector from amidst the bewildering array of products currently available?
Barclays took the common sense approach: effective transient protection involves restricting the 'let-through' voltage (that portion of the transient overvoltage which gets past the protector and hence reaches equipment) to a low and harmless level.
With this in mind, nine products, all claiming to protect electronic equipment against mains borne transients were tested for performance in accordance with the leading international test transient (ANSI now IEEE C62.41).
As a result of which Barclays Engineering Specification now dictates the use of:
- Furse ESP 240/ESP 415 for power distribution
boards,
or - Furse ESP Micro Conditioner for plug-in applications
Incidentally, of those tested, Furse ESP products were the only ones which proved to be both effective and electrically safe.
(Reprinted from ESP Update)