Franek Technologies has custom-designed a power protection system for the Institutional Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at The University of Texas in San Antonio.
This was to guarantee mass spectrometry instrumentation and supporting peripherals would function around the clock, regardless of the condition of the power coming into the facility.
During the frequent night-time thunderstorms that hit south Texas, the Thermo Fisher LTQ MS linear ion trap mass spectrometer was vulnerable to damaging power interruptions.
The spectrometer was also often plagued by power bumps caused by the city's power delivery services.
These bumps caused data loss that was a problem for multi-sample analysis sets.
If a test in progress was interrupted, the potentially irreplaceable sample was lost.
In addition, if that sample was part of a set, the entire experiment would probably have to be repeated.
Franek Technologies installed custom-designed power protection in October 2008 and the protected instrumentation has operated smoothly ever since.
