2009 DOTMed:
“Surge related issues result in nearly $80 billion in losses for the US economy….
Power load cycling generates over 80% of all damaging transients. Internally, less than
20% are generated externally by lightning or Utility grid switching.”

2016 Power Quality Specialists: (follow-up to original case study dated 2003)
“Community Hospital laboratory technicians identified problematic …… which also
presented life-safety concerns in that particular environment… However, the “real
success indicator” [at least for plant operations staff] was achieved when the
Laboratory staff quit incessantly complaining about recurring equipment problems! We
supplied our first Total Protection Solutions Surge Protective Device (SPD) in January
2004. These Total Protection Solutions devices typically provide the best
price/performance ratio [“bang for the buck”] in the industry, particularly when
factoring in their 30-year “Free Replacement” warranty.”
2017 ASCO Power Technologies – SPDs for Essential Power Systems in Health Care
Facilities:
” Article 517 of the National Electric Code (NEC) splits the electrical system of a
health care facility into essential and non-essential systems….. The essential electrical
system ensures the safety of people within the building, and is further divided into the
equipment branch, the life safety branch, and the critical branch…. To protect
downstream equipment, the NEC requires that surge protection be applied to every
voltage system in the facility. In addition, a listed SPD shall be installed in or on every
switchboard and panelboard.”
2007 IEEE Industry Applications Conference (2007 reprint excerpt):
“Transient overvoltage can significantly shorten the life of electronic components,
sometimes with just one spike if the voltage peak is high enough. Devices to protect
electronic components and equipment have been developed and have a proven track
record for ensuring that the protected components can provide service for their
intended
lifetime even in an environment where surges are common.”
2010 World’s Largest Retailer:
” Each test store realized a significant decrease in lighting maintenance costs due
to the surge protection installed. Conservatively, the longest return on investment (ROI)
in the stores evaluated during this test was less than one year. This field data was
collected over a period of about 4 years (2005-2008). …All maintenance and repair
associated with the electronic ballasts and lamps appear to be permanently reduced by
at least 70% or more.”

Industrial/Manufacturing

1994-2005 ATMEL Semiconductor Manufacturer:
“In 1994 the objective to confine the “ravaging damage” from spikes riding on
our service wiring and noise generated between our manufacturing tool sets……. Our
site losses were in the tens of millions of dollars per quarter….. installation of 805
locations (service entrance, distribution panels, branch panels and MCCs. I am please to
report our sizeable investment in TVSS mitigation has more than paid for itself many
times over, and is still fully functional now, ten years later. Our site projects the Return
on Investment (R.O.I.) was less than two months, after completing the installation of
the three level TVSS System. This meant that the millions of dollars that we saved in
losses, was turned into increased profitability and we even gained profit margins.”

2009 Toyota Manufacturing:
“Our drive banks were being negatively affected causing equipment failure and
unacceptable downtime. We installed a two-tiered TPS SPD approach…… since the date
of installation, no damage or downtime to these drives.”

2005 Irving Tissue:
“… we experienced about nine drive failures in ten months. In May 2005 we
installed TPS surge suppressors for the PLC and the MCC that fed the drives. Since then
we have had absolutely no issues with the drives or fuses clearing.”

2016 FedEx Express & EMC 2 Data Center I.T. Storage Equipment
“FedEx EDC-W Enterprise Data Center is the crown jewel of the FedEx
Corporations (13) data centers….. rated among the top 3% of all data center in the
world! Latency, lock-ups, data corruption, I.C degradation/failures, … power supply
failures have been mitigated and even eliminated. TPS technology is applied to every
PDU and RPP thereby eliminating all degradation to all I.T. hardware.”
2007 Sturm Ruger Firearms:
…. Survey revealed one root-cause stress to be frequent power surges and
voltage transients that were affecting CNCs, PLCs, computer and electronic controls and
drives. Since installing Total Protection Solutions surge suppression the historical
problems were non-existent.”