UPS & Standby Power
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Power Demand... S8.9 UPS technology to meet large scale data centre power demands - Larger data cen- tres are now being commissioned to meet the level of today’s demand for online data processing capacity. Kenny Green of Uninterruptible Power Supplies looks at how UPS technology has been developed to meet these elevated power demands
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UPS Batteries... S6.9 What’s behind every top quality UPS? - These days UPS systems support a variety of markets and applications. The principal function of a UPS is to convert a DC supply to AC in the event of mains failure, making batteries the key components of any UPS, as Yuasa explain
INSTALLATION DESIGN MAINTENANCE
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Circuit protection and metering solutions
FIRE SAFETY: Detection, suppression and control COVER STORY Green conversion - fewer
components, increased reliability and improved efficiency - why didn’t we think of this before? Borri’s managing director Ian
Tucker explains why the company has gone against the grain of integrating three level inverter topology and instead decided to develop, what it believes is a more superior, affordable and logical UPS solution
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Products... S9.9 Safeguarding power supplies - Having suffered a recent power outage, Wootton Bassett-based Plantronics, a manufacturer of headsets, is now ensuring the reliability and continuity of power to its data centre by installing a power support system from shentongroup
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S10. Power solutions in a box - Manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies, Riello UPS, talks to Electrical Engineering magazine about its newly launched containerised solution, PowerBox
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