Jill Normandin, director of marketing Sola/Hevi-Duty, Skokie, Ill.

Power conditioning with a constant voltage regulator

E lectronic systems are designed to run on clean, well-regulated, distortion free power. Heavy machinery, storms, utility issues, power factor correction capacitor switching, and harmonic generating electronics will add voltage distortion to power systems. A minor power disturbance, lasting only a fraction of a second, can contaminate or completely ruin data that might take days or weeks to replace.