Warning Signals
Some UPSs need just simple communications capability to warn their critical load of an impending failure. Larger, more complex or widely distributed systems benefit in many ways from more sophisticated,...
KUP Milestone: 20 Years of UPS Sales and Service
Hook, Hampshire, December 14, 2017: This December marks the 20th anniversary of Kohler Uninterruptible Power Limited (KUP), a Kohler company – one of the UK’s largest UPS sales and service companies....
The importance of service agreements
In this article, Alan Luscombe, director at Kohler Uninterruptible Power Ltd., a Kohler company, explains why professionally designed and fulfilled service contracts are so vital to UPS reliability. Any organisation...
The importance of service contracts
Why buy a UPS system? One good reason is if your application is in any way mission-critical; another arises if revenue-generation activity would be halted by a power failure. In...
Factors to consider when running generators with UPS systems
Most businesses of any size now rely on clean, continuous power from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to prevent loss of service, data loss and damage to sensitive IT and...
Ready for Winter?
While winter conditions are unlikely to directly affect ICT equipment that’s securely protected in your controlled data centre or office environment, they can certainly impact the utility power delivered to...
Why using UPS remote monitoring and maintenance services will save you money
Data centre and ICT system operators invest in UPS power protection equipment to avoid the serious financial and reputational consequences of a power anomaly or outage. However, for this strategy...
Choosing a UPS partner that delivers for your data centre
UPS sytems have by now become critical within large data centres that must protect their sensitive ICT equipment from incoming power supply problems. The loss of data and possible damage...
The advantages and disadvantages of load bank testing
Currently, lead-acid batteries remain the most popular standby UPS power source used in data centres, offices and other commercial, retail and industrial environments. Although they successfully fulfil all the requirements...
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’...
The Power of Communication
However well uninterruptible power supplies perform their role, their protection is ultimately incomplete unless they can communicate their power status in real time. Otherwise, during a protracted power blackout, their...
Tesco PLC
Tesco awards maintenance contract to Kohler Uninterruptible Power Tesco PLC has awarded the contract to maintain its uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) at its nationwide distribution centres to Kohler Uninterruptible Power...