FAQs – How Much and What Type of Power will a Polygon System Need?

Hi, everyone. This is Guillermo Martinez, applications engineer for Polygon US. And today, we wanted to address one of the more frequently asked when it comes to, executing a system designed by us on a customer site. A lot of times prior to even designing the system, the questions asked of how much power and what type of power the system will require. And that's really hard to answer before really designing the system. And even once the system has been designed, there is some flexibility when it comes to reducing power once we know the size in the implications of the system. So one of the, to give you an example, one of the more commonly used, lines of units we use is the r series. The r series is a line of desiccant dehumidifiers, and they're identified as tri fuel units. These units because of the way they work and the way they process the air, they do require a lot of energy for some heating that they perform. Now the heater can be powered by three things in this r series. We can use propane. Now, natural gas or electricity. So what we always say is that almost a hundred percent of the time, we will require three face four hundred and sixty volt power. The bigger question is how many amps? So to give you guys an example, here's the r five thousand again, identified in the R Series, that signifies five thousand CFN. And as we can see here, we're tagging two different full load amps. One that says electric, and that's when that heater is running on full electricity. And then we have 3zero amps when it's powered off a gas. Now the gas part means that that reactivation heater that I was mentioning earlier, that's part of the process of the unit, will instead of being electric will function off of a gas burner, natural gas or propane. As I'm making my way through the shop here, I wanted to show you all different example on the differences between electric and gas. So this is an R ten thousand. Is a unit double the volume as the R5000 that we looked at earlier. And I'm gonna zoom in here to the tag where we can see the full load amps marked down, two hundred and eighty two when it's all electric, and fifty when we're using that gas burner for the reactivation cycle. So that's just one strategy or one way that we have of mitigating the amount of electricity you There could be different sites that have different priorities on using electricity versus natural gas diesel propane. We have a lot of different ways of running our equipment. So just communicating with us so that we can plan around it and design the best solution for you. So aside from working with those degrees of freedom that are built in to some of our equipment. We have worked really hard to develop some technology that integrates into the systems we design to remotely monitor them and still mitigate some of that energy usage through modulation and optimization of the system based on needs of the space. Thanks for tuning in everyone, and we'll see you on the next video.