COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency & Essential Services

AMP-TRAK Controls Ltd. provides essential services in helping other essential businesses and people with emergencies. This is even more important during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergencies can occur at any time, including power outages which can have serious detrimental effects on the ability to keep other vital equipment running. This includes home medical…

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Large Power Outage Reported In Caledon & Mono

Today, March 10th, 20202, Hydro One is reporting that there is a power outage affecting almost 4,000 customers in Caledon and Mono. According to the Orangeville Banner, the outage is widespread and includes an area “from Castlederg Sideroad between Kennedy Road and Humber Station Road in Caledon, north to Adjala 25 Sideroad including Purple Hill,…

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Are You Ready For Winter Storms?

Southern Ontario including the Greater Toronto Area and outside, can experience some very severe weather conditions during the winter. If you have not already, now is a good time to winterize your home and property and get ready for whatever the worst that old man winter can bring. Many people like to do this in…

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Quebec Power Outage Affects Over A Million!

The Province of Quebec is no stranger to extreme weather that often causes large swaths of the province to experience power outages. While having several major cities, the province also has a tremendous area of rural landscape with farms, small towns and villages, and remote habitations. Storms in all four seasons and throughout the year…

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Could California Style Power Outages Hit Ontario?

We’ve all heard it on the news recently how planned rolling power outages have hit California, causing severe adjustments to be made by those who are living with them. Millions of Californians have been affected and the costs to businesses and homeowners is overwhelming. As we write this, we read that presently, PG&E Electric has…

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Fish Causes Electrical Outage In Northern Ontario

Over the years, we’ve come across a lot of weird reasons for power outages – while weather is perhaps the most frequent cause and the one we think about the most, there can be many reasons for the power to go out. But a falling fish? Several days ago, there was a news report of…

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August Power Outages Affect Thousands In Toronto

Thousands of Toronto Hydro customers have been affected by major power outages. The outages have occurred in the area that has been traditionally known as East Toronto (before the amalgamation of the other cities within the Metropolitan area all became part of the City of Toronto). As with all major power outages, they affected both…

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Orangeville – Planned Power Outage

There is a planned electrical power outage that will affect a small part of Orangeville on August 25th, 2019. According to the Orangeville Hydro twitter account, the outage will take place between 6:30AM and 11:00AM. While it is not a major outage that will affect many of Orangeville Hydro’s customers, it will affect some businesses…

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What Causes Power Outages?

Power outages can be one of the most frustrating things to occur in life, and often at the most inopportune time. If you are working on some task on your computer and you don’t have battery or backup power, it is extremely annoying and frustrating to realize you might have lost a big chunk of…

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AMP-TRAK Adds Line Of Portable Generators

AMP-TRAK Controls Ltd. is excited to announce that we are adding a new line of portable generators to our product line. For many years, we have focused on the installation of standby power generators which require permanent installation to our clients throughout Orangeville, York County, and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In keeping with our…

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