Effects of power supply surges on personal computers

Author

Baran, M.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

146

Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of power supply surges on a personal computer (PC) connected to a local area network (LAN). The surges simulated include the most common ones: surges due to lightning and capacitor switching, and fast transients due to operation of nearby end-use devices. Test results indicate that the PCs are quite immune to most of the power supply surges. Test results also give important hints towards investigating the power quality problems related to computer loads

Keywords

capacitor switching; computer power supplies; computer testing; lightning; local area networks; microcomputers; power system transients; surges; LAN; capacitor switching; computer loads; fast transients; lightning surges; local area network; nearby end-use devices operation; personal computers; power quality problems; power supply surge effects; Capacitors; Computational modeling; Lightning; Local area networks; Microcomputers; Personal communication networks; Power quality; Power supplies; Surges; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference, 2000. Conference Record. Papers Presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting. 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Clearwater, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5843-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPS.2000.854366

Filename

854366