India sees high voltage variation. The Indian standard for voltage quality requires voltage to be supplied within a 10% range. Urban areas see 12% voltage variation whereas rural areas experience up to 35% variation in voltage in a 24 hour period. Most of us have faced issues with poor voltage quality at some point or the other and even bought voltage stabilizers for our homes, offices, and industries.
Poor voltage quality can lead to failure in devices with a surge leading to several devices failing at a given time but there is also the slow decay in life of electronic devices due to overvoltage seen at night time.
What are the different type of voltage stabilizers?
1. Digital voltage stabilizers
You will recognize themes the boxes sitting next to the air condition, TVs, refrigerators. These type of stabilizers are designed to give a low cost solution to protect home & office appliances from steady state voltage conditions. They are finding lower application with steady state voltage quality improving in many parts of India as well as most appliances having inbuilt protection for extreme voltage conditions.
2. Servo Voltage Stabilizer
These are used for industrial loads or facilities requiring dynamic voltage correction. These types of stabilizers use a servo motor to select the right tapping on a transformer. Their advantage is that they give accurate voltage control but on the downside they are bulky, noisy and suffer from issues such as hunting.
3. Static Voltage Stabilizer
These type of full electronic systems operating on IGBTs is fairly new in the market. Sensitive electronic devices like medical equipment, CNC machines and network infrastructure require faster correction in case of dynamic voltage changes. They have shown improved protection for sensitive loads as compared to servo voltage stabilizers but find limited applications in case of equipment's that draw high start up currents.
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