TRUE LIFE APPLICATION STORIES
The following application stories were taken directly from the experiences of our sales engineers. Most are in the words of the actual clients that used our products. The names of the people involved have been changed to preserve their privacy. If you have a need to discuss their application with them, contact your Gryphon representative for further information.
All these stories have the same theme - power problems are the hidden threat to any computer based system, even the most conseratively designed.
It's well established that power problems are the leading cause of network downtime and data loss. Such dramatic events as lightning and total loss of power are merely the most visible of these problems. And most UPS's protect against them to some degree. But the other power problems, often caused by the electrical equipment within a building, can be the real culprits. ONEAC's low impedance, full output isolation transformers eliminate them completely; while UPS's with filter-based power conditioning are only capable of protecting against a portion. That difference can have a major impact on reliability.
The evidence is that switching from standard filter-based UPS's to ONEAC Premium Grade Power UPS's leads to an average 35% reduction in hard failures, 80% reduction in "no trouble found" service calls, and equally dramatic reductions in a host of other mysterious system ills.
The cost of a UPS is a small fraction of your total investment in network systems and supports. Doesn't it make more sense to specify the UPS that offers you complete power protection? Read the following application stories and see if they strike a cord with your own experiences.
STORY INDEX
- Medical & Printing Industry
- An Ounce of Prevention
- A computerized imagesetter is used by printers to process digitized information directly to film. It is one of the most high tech products the graphics industry offers. Needless to say, it needs power protection to match. This is the story of a digital imaging system that didn't get it.
- A Tale of Two Systems
- Clinics expect Lunar MRI Extremity-Auto Scan and bone densitometry systems to run accurate scans. Patients don't like to be kept waiting or be told they need to reschedule due to equipment problems. After trying other UPSs, Lunar Corporation has come to depend on ONEAC power conditioned UPSs to keep its customer's systems running.
- Computer Installations
- Wild Goose Chase!
- All too often when installing networks, companies focus all their attention on hardware and software. But no matter how perfectly designed that system is, if the power that feeds it is faulty, it won't perform reliably if it all.
- Making All the Right Moves
- It can be downright disheartening to think you've done everything right to protect your electronic equipment from power line disturbances. . . and then find out you hadn't. That's what happened at company Helene Curtis not long ago.
- Elevator Sends Tax Firm into Free Fall
- Disaster always seems to strike at the worst possible time. For the accounting firm of Canto, Rauch and Deck it was the height of tax season when their computers, copiers and telephones began suddenly and mysteriously crashing.
- Learning the Power Lesson
- Education is an important part of problem-solving. The Winfield School District is in the education business, and they learned about the importance of getting educated about power when their new computer system was locking up daily. The knowledge they gained enabled them to solve the problem with ONEAC.
- Retail Sales
- Oneac is the Answer
- Sometimes computer systems go down for no apparent reason. In the high traffic business of convenience store gas stations, it is critical to keep the systems running. But how do you fix a problem when you don't know the cause? Northwest Pump is a service provider with responsibility for keeping these systems running at customer gas stations. And Northwest Pump has found that for those system problems that have no answer, Oneac is the answer.
- Dirty Power Slows Down Speedway
- When Speedway started to put computer systems with check-out scanning equipment in many of its gas stations and convenience stores across the country, the company took on a monumental project. When the stations started to experience power related problems, it turned a monumental project into a monumental problem.
- If It's Not ONEAC; It's Not Power Conditioning
- There are different approaches to power conditioning. Unfortunately, some companies learn that the hard way. Littlejohn's Equipment Company was including a UPS system with power conditioning to protect the POS equipment it was selling. The UPS was not from ONEAC, and was based on a different approach to power conditioning. As the stores continued to experience power related problems, Littlejohn's soon discovered the ONEAC approach is the right approach to power conditioning.
- Service & Repair
- Downtime Insurance
- Most service organizations talk about how rapidly they'll respond to a customer's problem. AGFA Service does them one better. Its new Select Support Service Program guarantees how long it'll take to fix the problem. AGFA gives away ONEAC power conditioners to limit its exposure.
- Restaurant Industry
- Clean Power is a Tall Order in Restaurants
- What do a waffle iron, a left-handed bartender, and a refrigerator have in common? They can all be culprits in the crash of a restaurant's point-of-sale computer system.
- Telephone Installations
- Lightning Strikes Twice
- They say that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. But are you willing to bet thousands of dollars of equipment on that? After the Birmingham Public Library experienced two separate power surges that blew out the equipment at the same location, protection became a top priority.
- A Wake-Up Call
- A severe thunderstorm that knocks out phone service for dozens of your customers and damages delicate electronic equipment is every interconnect company's worst nightmare. For Nashville-based STI, just such a thunderstorm was the catalyst for rethinking its approach to power line protection.
- April Showers Bring May Service Calls
- Reliable phone systems are necessary to keep daily operations running smoothly. Dealers, market researchers and telemarketers cannot afford to worry that a lightning storm may impact their daily business. To ensure that phone lines are protected from lightning damage, companies use ONEAC telecom line protectors.
- Providing Uninterrupted Phone Service
- Whether you are using a public telephone or awaiting a phone call from a loved one in prison, BellSouth Public Communications is on the job in the South. BellSouth trusts ONEAC to keep their customer’s phone calls processed and without interruption.
