During disturbances to power supplies or overall power failures, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems continue to supply a flow of energy. The UPS system will respond faultlessly should the critical load from the main supply drop below the critical load’s voltage limit. Furthermore, it can maintain a continuous flow of power for anything up to an hour depending on the load required from that specific system. Should a UPS system not be present in such a situation, important data and hardware help on the affected business’s machinery can be damaged or permanently lost.
UPS systems are more ordinarily associated with data centres, recent years has seen them becoming more commonplace throughout varying industries. As so many businesses now rely on multiple electrical machines at any one time, the need for a reliable power source is imperative. It is key to understand precisely the load consumption required to uphold the business machinery as to ensure the correct UPS solution.
There are many contributing variables within a business that are necessary to consider for the sake of a UPS sizing exercise. Different businesses experience different load outages due to seasonality; powering temperature control systems during hotter/colder months, increased machine usage during peak seasons, decreased energy usage during holiday periods and so forth. Businesses that may be entering a growth period will need to allow for the increase of required equipment to correlate the growth. Thus it is clear that the business critical load requirements need to be established as well as investigating the load usage over a meaningful amount of time as to establish precisely what would be required of the UPS system.
You can find more information surrounding methods of adequate UPS sizing via the Uninterruptible Power Supplies Ltd website. You can also find details of UPS hiring as well as other products and services such as data centre design and battery racks.