Accell's PowerSquid Surge Protector Also Helps To Clean Up Your Power - The Accell PowerSquid

ps01As you might imagine we have a rather large number of electronic devices in use in our lab. These range from network switches to access points to tablets and more. Although we did build in surge protection and a good number of isolated outlets into the lab we always like to have more protection and more available plugs to play with. After wading through a number of flat and boring power strips with basic surge protection we started looking for something different. That is when we stumbled across a company called Accell and their PowerSquid Surge Protector.

 

The Accell PowerSquid Surge Protector -
The PowerSquid is built using impact resistant ABD plastic. It has five grounded outlets that extend off of individual cables so you could attach power blocks on each one without any problems (this is a nice feature over flat products).  The body of the Squid has a large recessed power/breaker button that does help with accidental power cycling. The amount of force needed to cycle power is enough to prevent causal contact but not to make it difficult to turn off and on. This scores big points over the typical rocker switch that can be shut off with a misplaced toe.
ps01
The surge protection on the PowerSquid is good. It can take a maximum power spike of 72,000 Amps while it is able to dissipate the 1080 Joules that we talked about before. In many cases you find devices that list high current and energy protection, but the protection devices are relatively slow to respond. This is not the case with the PowerSquid. Here the protection will clamp down in less than 1ns (that is one nano second or one billionth of a second). To help prevent power surges the PowerSquid has a resettable 15 Amp breaker. Now this is not going to help you if that 72,000 amp spike hits (that much current  will often melt or fuse breakers close so the current just jumps over), but is nice for low level surges.
plugs01
The line filtering in the PowerSquid will also come in handy as it can clean up many normal power issues and is rated up to 40db of line noise between 150 KHz to 100 MHz.  

 

No comments

Leave your comment

In reply to Some User