Five practical ways to maximise your UPS’s energy efficiency
A modern on-line UPS system has many advantages especially when it comes to energy efficiency. It provides protection against all types of power supply failure, filters a vast range of...
KUP pulls out all the stops to support a leading UK financial institution’s customer service operations
Kohler Uninterruptible Power (KUP) recently beat stiff competition from the UK's top suppliers of UPS systems and were chosen to replace two existing uninterruptible power supplies for one of the...
How to protect the security of your UPS communications
As UPS systems play a vital role in protecting your data centre’s critical load, they must also be kept well-maintained and capable of uncompromised performance themselves. To achieve this, it’s...
Monolithic and modular UPS topology comparison
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…
Assessing the clinical and business risks of healthcare environment power loss – and mitigating them with UPS systems
Power problems can occur anywhere, anytime, in any electrical system, regardless of the design standards employed. Accordingly, it may be tempting to build in the highest possible resilience across an…
Blue Chip Upgrades its Head-Office Power Protection with the Latest in High-Efficiency Standalone UPS
When Blue Chip decided to upgrade the power protection at its head office, it turned to Kohler Uninterruptible Power for an energy efficient solution that met all the requirements and...
Reliability is great, but availability is better
If asked to name our UPS’s most vital attribute, we may be tempted to say ‘reliability’. However, while reliability is indeed essential, it’s not the ultimate goal. What really counts...
Some practical load aspects to consider when specifying your UPS
When specifying a UPS, you would no doubt choose a capacity that would be adequate for the data centre or IT room that it’s intended to support, with provision for...
The role of generators in a protected power infrastructure
During normal mains availability, online uninterruptible power supplies protect their critical load from transients, noise and any other anomalies imposed onto the data centre’s power network from upstream. Additionally, the...
How operating in Xtra VFI mode improves UPS energy efficiency
The advent of transformerless technology not only improved double-conversion UPS energy efficiency; it also maintained this high efficiency over a much wider load range. Nevertheless, if the load drops to...
The importance of the right UPS service contract
Any organisation that invests in an uninterruptible power supply system demands clean, uninterrupted power with 24/7/365 availability for their mission-critical ICT resource. This demand is driven by data centre downtime...
The UPS as an IoT node
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a collection of technologies that continues to grow rapidly because it gives us so much insight into, and control of, the world around us....