Surge Arresters

Active Products Parts:

IBS Electronics offers a broad range of surge protection from industry leading manufacturers. IBS’s product line provides power protection, environmental control and site monitoring products that are designed to proactively identify and correct problems before downtime occurs.

IBS Electronics has developed relationships with several key manufactures in the industry becoming their franchised distributors. Some of these manufacturers include Sankosha, Maida, Littlefuse, Iskra.

These items can be found at our IBS Store or by selecting one of the manufacturers below for Product Information and Request for Quote.

Sankosha

For over 75 years, they have developed and manufactured the Ceramic Gas Tube Surge Arrester (Gas Discharge Tube or GDT). Sankosha gas tube arresters protect personnel, equipment and circuitry from abnormally high voltages caused by lightning or electrical transients. Their surge protection devices have well defined surge-limiting characteristics enabling them to spark over (or breakdown) when the abnormal voltage on a line reaches a specific level. When sparkover occurs in the GDT, the surge is redirected to earth. Sankosha’s gas tube arrestors are known for their quality.

Maida

Component products manufactured by Maida cover a wide range of uses and industries. Maida’s zinc oxide varistors are used in many applications that require protection against high voltage transients induced on power lines by nearby lightning strikes or suppression of transients caused by switching inductive loads from industrial equipment, transformers, relays and coils. Common applications include ground fault interrupters, specialty high voltage power supplies, telecommunication equipment, computer and computer-related products, motor control systems, cable TV systems, and AC smoke detectors, plus many special applications. Custom design and fabrication of ceramic components for specific customer requirements are also available from Maida.

Maida Surge Protection Devices are designed to compete with Littlefuse LSP05 and LSP10 product lines. There are various differences between the Maida Surge Protection Devices and the Littlefuse modules such as: lmax, ln, MCOV. Mounting is another difference as the Littlefuse modules are rectangular and Maida Surge Protection Devices are cylindrical.

Littelfuse products are vital components in virtually every market that uses electrical energy, from consumer electronics to automobiles, commercial vehicles and industrial equipment. Their history of innovation, proven technical expertise and the industry’s broadest and deepest portfolio of circuit protection products enable them to provide objective, comprehensive solutions for each customer’s unique needs

Iskra Zašcite is one of Europe’s and world´s leading manufacturer of SURGE PROTECTIVE DEVICES for a variety of systems. It takes pride in its extensive coverage of products for the protection of electrical and electronic devices in the industry, commercial buildings, homes and utilities.

Main Products and Services

Europe’s manufacturer of Surge protective devices (SPD) for:

• Low Voltage power lines
• Signalling Networks
• Telecommunication and subscriber lines
• Power quality (PQ) solutions adapted to niche application needs with complementary products.
• Energy management (EM) software and communication services, powered by Solvera Lynx.

Circuit Protection

Circuit protection, on the other hand, encompasses a broader range of measures aimed at safeguarding electrical circuits and components from various types of electrical faults, including overcurrents, short circuits, and overvoltages. While surges are one aspect of potential electrical disturbances, circuit protection mechanisms address a wider array of threats that can lead to equipment damage or pose safety hazards.Circuit protection devices include fuses, circuit breakers, and other protective devices that are designed to interrupt or limit the flow of current in a circuit under abnormal conditions. Fuses and circuit breakers, for instance, provide overcurrent protection by opening the circuit when current levels exceed a certain threshold, thereby preventing overheating and damage to connected devices.

In addition to our franchise lines we actively stock and order parts from the following manufacturers:

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• Diotec
  
• Texas Instruments
  
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• STMicroelectronics
  
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  Sankosha