If you work in hazardous locations and conditions, you would understand the need to promote safety and ensure that the risk of explosions is reduced. It is crucial that you eliminate one or more component of the ignition triangle to minimize the chances of an explosion. The 3 protection methods listed below are widely used in hazardous locations, in the process control industry:

Before we delve a little deeper and understand these techniques, let’s take a quick look at the role electrical enclosures.

Electrical enclosures are cabinets containing different electrical components such as switches, sockets, plugs, knobs, transformers and controls. These keep the surroundings safe from any kind of electrical hazard. Such enclosures are resistant to spark and shock and they have a high tolerance to extreme temperatures. They must be used in hazardous locations as they keep an interior explosion from spreading to the external environment and damaging life and property. Let’s see how they are relevant in the Containment method of protection:

Let’s first consider some of the problems that you are likely to encounter with an undersized air conditioning system, which tends to be the more obvious issue in terms of improper sizing. Your air conditioner will struggle to cool your home effectively, as it has not the power to do so. As a result, it will run much more than it should have to in order to cool your home down. This in turn drives up energy costs, meaning that you may actually find yourself paying more money for a lesser performance from your home cooling system. If you think that you deserve better than this from your AC, you must have a system that is of the right size for your living space. Just remember that an oversized system is really no better.

There are a few issues which you may encounter with an air conditioning system which is too big for your home. First and foremost, you may find that the system actually cools your home too quickly. Now, you may not understand precisely why this would be a problem. There are a few reasons, though. Your system will cycle on and off more frequently than it should, which both uses excess energy and puts unnecessary strain on the system. Additionally, your AC will fail to dehumidify the air as it normally would, which can have detrimental effects on your indoor air quality. Finally, you are paying for cooling capacity that you simply do not need. Let us install your AC so that it is guaranteed to be of the right size.