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What Does Battery 'Design Life' Mean?
All batteries have a design life that can be used as an indicator as to their functional service life. The standard design life is 5 years,...
What should be considered when buying a UPS system?
Existing Installations Consider a central back-up system to eliminate expensive re-cabling. Wise to involve a company specialising in power...
What does Autonomy mean?
The battery duration at a specified load level is referred to as the battery “autonomy”. A UPS battery can be sized to support loads...
What is a Bypass Switch?
Static Bypass switches are used to bypass the UPS normal operation, in cases of high inrush or fault conditions. Manual bypass switches are an...
Cascade or Parallel redundancy?
UPS systems can be designed to operate in parallel to increase reliability (redundant systems) or to increase load handling capability (full...
What is a Brownout?
A brownout, sometimes also called a ‘sag’, is a "dip" in the voltage level of the electrical line. When a brownout occurs,...
What are the main compnents of a UPS system?
Rectifier Converts AC voltage to DC voltage, recharges the batteries and maintains float voltage, handles overloads and buffers surges, can...
Do I require a 12 Pulse rectifier or Input filter with the MHT range of UPS?
By selecting a UPS from our MHT range you can rely on the advanced rectifier design to dramatically reduce input current harmonics to <3%,...
How To Size A UPS Battery
The battery within a UPS must be sized to provide a specified runtime, in minutes or hours, at a specific load. Load-specific factors are...
When would I need a Generator?
Generators are usually used where there is likelihood that the load cannot be off for any length of time or in areas where the mains supply is...

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