A single voltage event can corrupt a run, damage a detector, or destroy a sample that took weeks to prepare. NXT Power Integrity Series conditioners and UPS systems keep your instruments and gas generators running — clean, stable, and uninterrupted.
Grid power in industrial areas carries spikes, sags, and harmonics that analytical instruments were never designed to handle. Here’s how NXT Power addresses each failure mode.
Ferro-resonant transformer technology absorbs spikes, corrects sags, and attenuates line noise — delivering clean, regulated output voltage regardless of what the utility grid provides.
On power failure, the Integrity Max switches to battery in under 4 ms — transparent to the instrument. Protects in-progress GC runs, LC-MS gradients, and living cell cultures from any grid interruption.
Your N₂, H₂, and zero-air generators feed every instrument on your bench. A conditioner on the generator itself prevents power-event shutdowns from cascading through your entire gas supply chain.
Multi-instrument labs benefit from a layered approach: conditioners on individual instruments, a centralized UPS on shared infrastructure. SLI assesses your load profile and configures a solution sized for your lab.
Analytical instruments are among the most electrically sensitive devices in any facility. GC detectors, mass spectrometer ion sources, ICP plasma systems, and FTIR interferometers all depend on stable voltage to maintain calibration and repeatability. Line voltage variations of just 5–10% can cause baseline drift, shift retention times, distort spectral peaks, or falsely trigger instrument alarms.
NXT Power conditioners use ferro-resonant transformer technology to deliver regulated output that is independent of input fluctuations. Whether your facility experiences brownouts, switching transients from HVAC compressors, or harmonic distortion from variable-speed drives elsewhere in the building, the conditioner absorbs it before it reaches your instrument.
A voltage conditioner cleans power but cannot keep an instrument running through a complete outage. For workflows where even a momentary interruption means hours of lost work or a destroyed sample, a UPS is not optional — it’s infrastructure.
The NXT Power Integrity Max UPS series transfers to battery in under 4 milliseconds — fast enough that instruments do not even register a power event. The batteries sustain full load long enough to complete the active run, initiate a controlled shutdown, or bridge to a generator coming online. When utility power restores, the UPS recharges automatically with no operator intervention.
When a lab transitions from gas cylinders to on-site N₂, H₂, or zero-air generators, the generator becomes critical infrastructure. Every instrument it feeds — every GC, every GC-MS, every FID detector — depends on that generator maintaining uninterrupted output. A power event that trips the generator is a power event that stops every instrument downstream of it.
Adding a conditioner or UPS to the generator itself is one of the highest-leverage power protection decisions a lab can make. A single NPT or NPTU unit protecting the generator provides multiplied uptime across every instrument the generator serves — and prevents the thermal recovery period that some generators require after an unplanned shutdown.
Typical load and recommended NXT Power configuration for common laboratory instruments and systems. Contact SLI for site-specific load surveys.
Not all power protection is equal. The Integrity Series was engineered specifically for the load profiles and sensitivity requirements of analytical instrumentation.
A mass spectrometer or ICP system represents a $200,000–$1M+ capital investment. A properly sized conditioner or UPS costs a fraction of a single service call or component replacement after a power event.
An 8-hour GC sequence, a 24-hour fermentation run, or a month of cell culture — none of it survives an unprotected power failure. NXT Power UPS systems ensure the run completes or shuts down in a controlled manner.
Unexplained baseline shifts, retention time drift, and spectral noise are frequently traced back to dirty line power. Conditioned power eliminates this variable from your method and improves data reproducibility.
Repeated voltage transients stress power supply capacitors, detector electronics, and motor windings. Clean, conditioned power measurably reduces component wear and extends the interval between instrument repairs.
21 CFR Part 11, ISO 17025, and GLP guidelines require instruments to operate within validated environmental parameters. Demonstrable power quality control is part of that record — NXT Power helps you document it.
From an 80 VA conditioner for a single analytical balance to a 10 kVA UPS backing an entire analytical suite — SLI surveys your load profile and configures the correct Integrity Series solution.
NXT Power conditioners and UPS systems are brand-agnostic and compatible with standard 120 VAC and 208/240 VAC laboratory equipment.
7890/8890 GC, 7000/7010 GC-MS/MS, 6400 series LC-MS, 5900 ICP-OES, 7900 ICP-MS
Orbitrap Exploris, iCAP TQ ICP-MS, Vanquish UHPLC, TRACE 1300 GC, Nicolet FTIR series
Acquity UPLC, Xevo TQ-S, SELECT SERIES Cyclic IMS, Alliance HPLC systems
NexION 5000 ICP-MS, Avio 550 ICP-OES, Clarus GC/GC-MS, LAMBDA UV-Vis series
ALPHA II FTIR, timsTOF mass spectrometers, aurora M90 ICP-MS, INVENIO FTIR series
GCMS-QP2020 NX, LCMS-8060NX, IRTracer-100 FTIR, ICPMS-2030 series
Triple Quad 7500, TripleTOF 6600+, ZenoTOF 7600, Citrine QTOF LC-MS/MS systems
XPR / XS analytical and microbalances; Cubis II series; any balance requiring clean 120 VAC supply
Tell us what instruments you’re running and we’ll recommend the right NXT Power configuration — conditioner, UPS, or both.