As we mentioned in many posts before, using an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is necessary especially in case of Utility Power fluctuations and other power related issues. The need of powerful power protection systems and uninterruptible power supplies is essential everywhere from home to small business, governmental organizations, hospitals, airports, critical missions, and to any place need a power source with a constant voltage level.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Uninterruptible Power Supply protects your Laptop
It depends on you! if you need non-stop operation of your Personal Computer or laptop, you have to use an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). UPS will protect your computer not only if the main power supply completely shut down but it may also protect your computer and its peripherals (such as printers, scanners, monitors, etc.) against power surges or low voltage tricks which could harm your electronic devices.
Monday, December 12, 2011
How to properly maintain and manage UPS batteries
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It’s a well-known fact in the industry that the battery is the most vulnerable part of a UPS. In fact, battery failure is a leading cause of load loss. Understanding how to properly maintain and manage UPS batteries can not only extend battery service life, but it can also help prevent costly downtime.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Comparing Rotary and Online UPS Power Supply Types
Online UPS systems
More than ever, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems of today need to possess high levels of reliability and security. They should deliver optimum performance, making sure that power supply to loads is steady and regulated. As high-end computer and telecommunication equipments continue to rely on these systems for nonstop operation, the UPS power supply industry must continue to evolve their designs and provide consumers with the safest and best systems available. Two of the best UPS systems at present are said to be the rotary and online types.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Calculating UPS Battery Backup Times
A UPS allows users to protect their work from sudden power interruptions.
As a safeguard against losing work to blackouts and other power failures, many computer users are turning to uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), which consists of a battery integrated into a surge protector or other voltage adapter. Each UPS has a specific volt-ampere (VA) rating, which is an expression of the maximum AC power it can supply. The length of time for which the UPS can support a particular appliance's electrical load depends on the efficiency of its DC-to-AC inverter, its effective output voltage and the capacity of the battery.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
How to Install an Uninterruptible Power Supply
Install an Uninterruptible Power Supply
Power fluctuations and sudden loss of power are issues that can both result in serious damage to computers and their peripheral devices. An uninterruptable power supply, commonly abbreviated UPS, is a device that is designed to maintain a steady and constant source of electricity to your devices.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) installation and configuration
An inexpensive way to prevent unscheduled downtime or data loss due to power problems is with a UPS or Uninterruptible Power Supply. However, a UPS by itself is not enough for proper operation. Hardware, software, and configuration together make up a UPS system that will recover from unexpected power loss or power fluctuations that can damage systems and peripherals.
UPS for Sufficient Power Backup and Safety of Devices
High quality, uninterrupted and reliable power supply is vital for mission critical operations, data centers, server rooms, telecommunication, medical operations and military bases as well. Electrical and electronic equipments used at these places or for them are very sensitive and a power fluctuation can turn into a major loss for them. As far as high-quality and uninterrupted power supply is concerned, the concept of uninterruptible power supplies come into mind.
Enhance your Workplace Efficiency with Competent Range of Uninterruptible Power Supply
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is a device used to provide clean, consistent, and continuous power supply to critical and sophisticated electrical devices that need continuous supply of power to function. Even a slightest of power disturbance can prove fatal for these devices, as these devices are quite susceptible and sensitive to power problems like sags and surges.
Monday, October 3, 2011
How to Build Your Own Uninterruptible Power Supply
In the event of extended blackout, you may have critical systems (such as computer or medical equipment) that must remain running no matter what. This guide will yield one scalable uninterrupted power supply system. You may extend it with power generation, or solar/wind/etc. as you see fit.
How To Manage Your Uninterruptible Power Supply With UPS Assistant
UPS Assistant is a free utility that monitors the status of your Uninterruptible Power Supply(UPS) connected to a computer through USB-port and supporting the Megatec/Centralion protocol (Ippon, Mustek, Sven, Inelt). You can also find out more information about your UPS such as status, data stream, battery level, etc.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Industrial Uninterruptible Power Supply Overview
In last years industrial uninterruptible power supply is becoming very important part of infrastructures and industries where they can't afford lack of power. So it's accustomed to help protect from power electricity lost in places for example data centers, telecommunication facilities, places with computer servers, hospitals, factories, supermarket, airports, basically it can be found anywhere. Industrial uninterruptible power supply is generally utilized in conjunction with diesel generators. Where ups can be used in first minutes of power failure. Which is simply enough time for heavy duty diesel generators to begin. After diesel is fully running it requires over the load. Generator is usually configured with delay when switching back loads to ups, just in case you will find shorter interruptions.
Comparing Transformer-based and Transformerless Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Choosing between transformer-based or transformerless uninterruptible power supplies may not be a simple ‘either/or’ decision, particularly above 10kVA. Both technologies have their place in today’s power protection scenarios but the key differences between them are: physical size, efficiency, noise output and the levels of input harmonic distortion that they generate.
Back-feed Protection in Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Back-feed protection, in uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), prevents the risk of electric shock from any electric current feeding back from the UPS output in the event of a mains supply failure. When mains fails and connected loads are protected by uninterruptible power supplies, a back-feed protection device prevents current from being passed back to the input terminals of the UPS from the inverter output. This is extremely important for health and safety reasons because it enables a service engineer to work on the incoming supply side of the UPS without risk of receiving an electric shock.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Uninterruptible Power Supplies Uk: Backbone of Life
Life runs on electricity. The more developed country the more it runs on electricity. Power cuts can simply leave you paralyzed at times. The power trips and sheddings are unavoidable but UPS and generators act as major power backups at these faulty times. Uninterruptible Power Supplies or (UPS) as it is more popularly called is very useful both in domestic and industrial purposes.
Benefits of using uninterrupted power supply
In many organization whether its small or large organization, they use Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) to protect their systems. Not only the systems it could be anything like machinery, refrigerators, servers, computers or any other electronic gadgets to protect their work from the loss of the data in the event of a power failure. Because they work continuously and they do not shut any of their machines for a single minute, if they do they have to suffer a huge loss so for this reason they use battery.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
An uninterruptible power supply,
also uninterruptible power source, UPS or battery/flywheel
backup, is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when
the input power source, typically mains power,
fails. A UPS differs from an auxiliary or emergency power system or standby
generator in that it will provide instantaneous or
near-instantaneous protection from input power interruptions by means of one or
more attached batteries and associated electronic
circuitry for low power users, and or by means of diesel generators and
flywheels for high power users. The on-battery runtime of most uninterruptible
power sources is relatively short—5–15 minutes being typical for smaller
units—but sufficient to allow time to bring an auxiliary power source on line,
or to properly shut down the protected equipment.