Case Study: Damaged Xray equipment at Major Health Care Center Severe power quality problems damaged Xray equipment, costing $100,000 in one instance. The source of the problem was the switch over from utility to generator power, during regular testing and emergency situations. Figure 1 (below) identified the cause of the problem, an out-of-phase transfer, captured by On Power with a Dranetz 658 Analyzer. Ideally, an online UPS represents the best solution when protecting against low frequency / high energy events such as >out-of-phase transfers (capacitor bank switching represent similar problems). The challenge was dealing with the size and shape of the inrush currents the Xray demands as it cycles through its program (See Figure 2). Not only did current rise from 20 Amps to 100 Amps (38

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