Electrical engineers back voltage optimisation in the fight against voltage variance
One of the UK’s leading providers of voltage regulators, Ecoadapt (http://www.ecoadapt.co.uk/), reports that electrical engineers in the UK are increasingly turning to voltage optimisation systems in a bid to fight voltage variance and improve energy efficiency.
When there are unreliable levels of incoming voltage it’s known as voltage variance, where differences of as much as 23 volts can be felt in any 24 hour, 7 day period. Fixed ratio voltage optimisation systems become simple, double wound transformers that merely mirror the incoming voltage in the cases of voltage variance and the rise of renewable energy will only increase the instances of voltage variance.
Electrical engineers are now of the opinion that voltage optimisation systems are the key to compensating for the problem of voltage variance and that they help to achieve markedly improved energy efficiency returns. Up until recently, voltage reduction and optimisation systems were primarily sold to sustainability and environmental managers, but now Ecoadapt can report that electrical engineers in the UK are becoming more closely involved with the voltage optimisation revolution.
Leading power reduction experts and providers of voltage optimisation solutions, Ecoadapt, spoke to the UK’s foremost independent voltage optimisation expert within the field of electrical engineering, Brian Dickinson of Energy Performance Engineering Ltd. “There is a range of voltage optimisation products on the market, all doing essentially the same thing, but using different techniques to achieve comparable results. Each manufacturer or supplier claims different features such as harmonic reduction or power factor improvement and although in some cases these claims are true, the actual direct benefit is marginal. However, Voltage Regulators consisting of a double wound ‘buck’ connected transformer, with a variable motorised auto transformer, controlling the voltage in the primary winding provides a linear output voltage change and is capable of both voltage reduction and regulation, delivering bigger savings.”
More and more of Dickinson’s fellow electrical engineers are sharing the opinion that the right voltage optimisation system can be highly effective in power reduction and fighting voltage variance, as well as helping to reduce electric costs.
Discover more about the over voltage problem in the UK and how to fight it with voltage optimisation at http://www.ecoadapt.co.uk/.
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