Immunity level of personal computers to voltage sags in the 240 V/50 Hz distribution systems

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 931-937

  Shareef, Hussain ^a   Mohamed, Azah ^a   Marzuki, Nazri ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

ITIC; PC; Power acceptability; SEMI F47; Voltage tolerance curves

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; ITIC; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; POWER ACCEPTABILITY; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; SEMI F47; VOLTAGE SENSITIVITY; VOLTAGE TOLERANCE CURVE;

ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; STANDARDS;

VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

EID: 63049103676     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2009.931.937     Document Type: Article

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