SVG for Reactive Power Compensation in Industrial Plants A shovel line that punished the capacitor bank A copper mine in Chile ran an 800 kW electric shovel with 1.2 MW peaks on a 690 V bus. Voltage flicker (Pst) measured 1.6 against the 1.0 limit, and the contactor-switched capacitor bank cycled more than 200 times per day. Contactors failed every seven months, and the site p...
Is Your UPS System Secretly Costing You Money? Here’s How Active Harmonic Filters Can Help Your UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) is supposed to be your safeguard—the insurance policy that keeps your critical operations running when the grid fails. But here's the irony: that very same UPS might be quietly damaging your equipment, inflating your electricity bills, and threa...