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Transients at Work
Donald G. Pennington, TRANSBLOCK’s Founder, CEO and CTO of the patented
technology known as “Ground Transient Filtering” states that every transient that goes
through a system attacks the microprocessor. Some transients are large enough to fry the
microprocessors while others are small and literally imperceptible, yet they too erode the
microprocessor on a continual basis.
Electrical pollution characterizes transients. The rate at which voltage transients occur' is
described in one article as follows:
• 0 to 900 transients per hour for a residence
• 900 to 9000 transients per hour for a busy office
• 9000 to 60,000 transients per hour for a small factory
• 60,000 to 181,000 transients per hour for a processing plant
• 180,000 to 432,000 transients per hour in larger industrial plants.
These electrical transients travel via the electrical ground wire onto the DC logic BUS which
is providing power to the micro-processor. Causing the micro-processor to lock up or with
enough hits the chip will become permanently damaged from the significant electrical
transient energy.
The typical transient produces an oscillatory event which continues for a period of
approximately 6.5 microseconds, becoming damped out after about three cycles. These
voltage transients occur whenever inductive or capacitive loads such as transformers,
capacitors and motors are switched, resulting from the sudden dissipation of instantaneous
stored magnetic energy into the rest of the system through the ground wire.
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