Early uninterruptible power supplies were built as monolithic units; today, these have been mostly replaced by modern, modular UPS designs. Nevertheless, monolithic UPS installations are still very much available, as…
Setting up data centre-type UPS protection for a server room environment
While data centres and other large-scale applications unequivocally require UPS power protection, the same is also true for smaller applications such as mid-sized server rooms, communications centres or industrial control...
The PowerWAVE 5000TP Standalone Three-phase Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
The PowerWAVE 5000TP is a standalone three-phase UPS system available in seven power ratings from 10 to 50kVA and different cabinet sizes ensuring you have the ideal internal battery capacity...
Emergency backup power supply for lifts and smoke extraction systems
At KUP we spend much of our time working with data centre operations and other ICT equipment power protection applications. However, we’re also involved in many other areas where uninterruptible...
Dedicated. Reliable. Essential: Choosing the right UPS supplier for the healthcare industry
There are few markets where the role of UPS systems is more critical than within medical and healthcare related applications. Uninterruptible power supplies operating in this arena are called upon...
UPS systems for communications and network rooms
UPS systems are well-established in large-scale applications such as data centres. However, their protection is increasingly required for smaller environments such as communications and networking rooms, or building services equipment....
Assuring Uninterrupted Clean Power – a Practical Perspective
When choosing an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system, obvious features such as its capacity, battery autonomy, availability, economy and resilience to failure will be weighed up first. Maintenance contracts will...
What is your UPS trying to tell you?
The small office environment is an essential part of the business landscape, and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. This popularity is driven both by large businesses’ needs...
Optimising power protection for your mid-sized ICT installation
Large-scale enterprises typically use data centres to handle their IT load – and these will have large-scale UPS systems to provide conditioned AC power with high availability and efficiency. What...
Calculating the true cost of power outages to your business
Ok, so I’ve talked a lot about the cost of power outages in recent articles. ‘The average datacentre downtime incident costs £412,800’ ‘Google’s 2013 outage cost them £100,000 per minute’...
New kVA Calculator Tool
Leading UPS specialist, Kohler Uninterruptible Power Ltd. (KUP.), announced today the launch of a new, free kVA load calculator to help end users, consultants and electrical contractors identify and better...