Strike Technologies - Relays, Surge Protection Equipment, and Energy and Demand Metering

Strike Technology is a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor in the power technologies field. Based in South Africa, Strike Technologies forms part of the Powertech and Altron group of companies.

Strike has extended its focus to the global market in recent years, leading to an increasing measure of international business. The company currently actively trades in 26 different countries.

In 1994 the company launched the Enermax™, a range of programmable energy and demand meters that have proved a spectacular success. It includes a wide range of new features, including Windows™ compatible software, and innovative communication and networking options.

Strike has taken the reigns of several dominant products during its growth. Strike has recently formed a technology partnership with PS Squared in the UK to form a new division named Powertech Energy Solutions (PES).

THREE PHASE ENERGY AND DEMAND METERING – ENERMAX PLUS

The New Enermax Plus™ programmable energy and demand meter has seen enormous success since its launch. This meter caters for metering within industrial applications, municipalities, mining, utilities and other three phase applications.

It includes a wide range of new features, including Windows compatible software, and innovative communication and networking options.

The Enermax Plus three phase programmable energy and demand meter caters for 400V(L-L), 110V(L-L) and 63.5V(L-N). It is a class 0.5 accuracy meter that has a 2MB non-volatile memory that can save 32 months worth of billing data. It is 1A or 5A programmable and has various communication capabilities including RS232 and 485, GSM/GPRS, PSTN, Ethernet and I/O.

SURGE PROTECTION - ZORC™ SURGE SUPPRESSOR

Acquiring all rights to ZORC strengthened the company within the industries it serves. ZORC is a unique surge suppressor for medium and high voltage motors, dry type transformers and generators.

PROTECTION RELAYS

Strike Technologies has sole distribution rights for the Protecta™ range of protection relays as well as the RES™ range of injection and protection test equipment.

Protecta is a complete range of high-end protection relays that cater for motor protection, transformer protection, substation protection, and overhead line and cable protection.

The range of protection relays manufactured by Strike include:

• RLC04 - capacitor/filter protection relay: three phase programmable relay for medium and high voltage shunt capacitor banks and harmonic filter circuits
• FP04B - feeder protection relay: the FP04 provides comprehensive protection for medium and high voltage incoming and outgoing feeder circuits
• MP04 - motor protection relay: the MP04 incorporates all required functions for comprehensive protection of medium and high voltage motors, ranges from 300kW to 5,000kW and 3.3kV to 11kV

TEST EQUIPMENT – POWER SYSTEMS AND PROTECTION EQUIPMENT

Strike has the agency to distribute Relaying Engineering Services (RES) products that comprise test equipment used for the testing of power systems protection equipment which includes: - Automatic Protection Test Set (APTS3), Over current Relay Test Set (ORTS), Breaker Trip Coil Test & Timer (TCT2), Battery Test Set (BTS) and Protection Condition Analyser (PCA2).

EPC - EARTH FAULT PROTECTION RELAYS

EPC is incorporated into Strike and produces earth fault protection relays and monitoring systems for the mining industry, large industry and hospitals.

Strike has an ongoing customer training programme, which together with its field service and technical support capability, ensures that customers receive the maximum benefit from the application of its products.

The research and development team at Strike is currently engaged in the exciting task of harnessing the technological building blocks that will deliver a brand new generation of products and services, over a phased period. These will strive to offer ever-increasing value to our present and future customer base.