⚡ Power Protection

Critical Power for
Analytical Laboratories

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.

±1%
output voltage regulation
<4 ms
transfer to battery on power failure
10 kVA
maximum single-unit UPS capacity
$0
instrument damage with proper protection

Every Threat to Your Lab Power, Covered

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.

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Voltage Conditioning

Ferro-resonant transformer technology absorbs spikes, corrects sags, and attenuates line noise — delivering clean, regulated output voltage regardless of what the utility grid provides.

Capacity80 VA – 7 kVA
Regulation±1%
Voltage120 – 240 VAC
NXT Power Conditioners
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UPS Battery Backup

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.

Capacity2.2 – 10 kVA
Transfer Time<4 ms
Voltage200 – 240 VAC
NXT Integrity Max UPS
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Gas Generator Protection

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.

Generator Load300 VA – 2 kVA
ApplicationN₂ / H₂ / ZA
ProtectionConditioning
NXT Power Conditioners
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Whole-Lab Power Strategy

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.

Coverage1 – 20+ instruments
ApproachLayered
SizingBy load survey
Full Integrity Series

Clean Power Is Part of Every Analytical Method

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.

  • Eliminates voltage sags and surges before they reach sensitive electronics
  • Reduces electrical noise that causes baseline instability in GC, LC-MS, and ICP
  • Protects detector power supplies, autosamplers, and data systems simultaneously
  • ±1% regulated output across a wide input voltage acceptance window
  • Models from 80 VA (single balance) to 7 kVA (ICP-MS or multi-instrument)
  • Available in 120 VAC and 208/240 VAC single-phase configurations
The hidden cost of dirty power. Repeated voltage transients shorten the lifespan of instrument power supplies and detectors. Labs that add conditioners typically report longer calibration stability intervals and fewer unexplained instrument faults between PM visits.

Some Runs Cannot Be Interrupted — Ever

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.

  • GC and GC-MS multi-hour runs: protect against mid-run shutdown and column contamination
  • LC-MS gradients: prevent abrupt pump stops that damage gradient integrity and column packing
  • ICP plasma: avoid expensive plasma re-ignition cycles and torch cleaning after sudden shutoff
  • CO₂ incubators and bioreactors: sustain power to living samples through any grid event
  • Data acquisition systems: prevent incomplete data files and corrupted sequence logs
  • Gas generators: keep N₂ and H₂ supply running through the full instrument run
UPS + conditioner: the complete solution. The Integrity Max UPS provides backup power; pairing it with a conditioner ensures the power it delivers is also clean. Many labs put a conditioner on the UPS output to eliminate residual harmonic distortion from the inverter waveform.

Protect the Generator That Feeds Everything Else

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.

  • N₂ generators (NG Series): 300 VA–1.5 kVA depending on model and compressor size
  • H₂ generators (HG Series): 150–800 VA; critical for GC-FID and anaerobic chamber continuity
  • Zero-air generators (ZA Series): typically 500 VA–1.5 kVA
  • Generator conditioner prevents voltage-event shutdowns from propagating to instruments
  • UPS on generator bridges full outages — instruments complete active runs before shutdown
  • Generator + conditioner bundle available through SLI as a configured system
SLI bundles generators and power protection together. When you order a gas generator through SLI, we can include a correctly-sized NXT Power conditioner or UPS as a pre-configured system — one purchase order, one point of contact, one installation.

Power Protection by Instrument Type

Typical load and recommended NXT Power configuration for common laboratory instruments and systems. Contact SLI for site-specific load surveys.

Instrument / System Typical Load Protection Type NXT Power Model
GC / GC-FID (single instrument) 500–1,200 VA Conditioner NPT1000–NPT2000
GC-MS / GC-MS/MS 1,000–2,500 VA Conditioner + UPS NPT2000 + NPTU2200
LC-MS / UHPLC-MS/MS 1,500–3,500 VA Conditioner + UPS NPT3000 + NPTU3300
ICP-OES 3,000–5,500 VA Conditioner NPT4000–NPT6000
ICP-MS / Triple Quad ICP-MS 4,000–7,000 VA Conditioner + UPS NPT7000 + NPTU5000
FTIR / NIR spectrometer 300–800 VA Conditioner NPT500–NPT1000
N₂ or H₂ generator (benchtop) 300 VA–1.5 kVA Conditioner NPT500–NPT2000
CO₂ incubator / tri-gas incubator 1,500–3,000 VA UPS NPTU2200–NPTU3300
Bioreactor / fermentation system 2,000–5,000 VA UPS NPTU3300–NPTU5000
Analytical balance / microbalance 80–300 VA Conditioner Standard 80–500 VA

Six Reasons Labs Choose NXT Power

Not all power protection is equal. The Integrity Series was engineered specifically for the load profiles and sensitivity requirements of analytical instrumentation.

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Protect Six-Figure Instruments

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.

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Preserve Every In-Progress Run

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.

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Eliminate Voltage-Related Measurement Error

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.

Extend Instrument Service Life

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.

Support GMP and GLP Compliance

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.

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Right-Sized for Any Lab

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.

Protects Every Major Analytical Platform

NXT Power conditioners and UPS systems are brand-agnostic and compatible with standard 120 VAC and 208/240 VAC laboratory equipment.

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Agilent Technologies

7890/8890 GC, 7000/7010 GC-MS/MS, 6400 series LC-MS, 5900 ICP-OES, 7900 ICP-MS

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Thermo Scientific

Orbitrap Exploris, iCAP TQ ICP-MS, Vanquish UHPLC, TRACE 1300 GC, Nicolet FTIR series

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Waters Corporation

Acquity UPLC, Xevo TQ-S, SELECT SERIES Cyclic IMS, Alliance HPLC systems

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PerkinElmer

NexION 5000 ICP-MS, Avio 550 ICP-OES, Clarus GC/GC-MS, LAMBDA UV-Vis series

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Bruker

ALPHA II FTIR, timsTOF mass spectrometers, aurora M90 ICP-MS, INVENIO FTIR series

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Shimadzu

GCMS-QP2020 NX, LCMS-8060NX, IRTracer-100 FTIR, ICPMS-2030 series

SCIEX

Triple Quad 7500, TripleTOF 6600+, ZenoTOF 7600, Citrine QTOF LC-MS/MS systems

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Mettler-Toledo / Sartorius

XPR / XS analytical and microbalances; Cubis II series; any balance requiring clean 120 VAC supply

Ready to Protect Your Lab Investment?

Tell us what instruments you’re running and we’ll recommend the right NXT Power configuration — conditioner, UPS, or both.