View From The Top
View From The Top
ER Interviewed Mike Elms, managing director at Centiel UK, sponsors of the Data Centre Design and Build Product of the Year award, to find out his unique insight into the UPS marketplace and why the company chose to sponsor this particular category.
When’s The Right Time to Invest in a New UPS?
When’s The Right Time to Invest in a New UPS?
Over time, your load profile will undoubtedly have changed so it is worth investigating Modular UPS systems which can be right-sized more easily to your actual load: why pay for a large UPS when you don’t need it!? The Modular option can therefore reduce CAPEX as well as OPEX. In addition, the latest generation of Modular systems offer the highest availability and continuity of critical power delivery. For example: CENTIEL’s 4th generation modular UPS CumulusPowerTM has 99.9999999% availability.
Misconceptions About Insurance
Misconceptions About Insurance
It has been said: insurance is like needing a parachute. If it isn’t there, chances are you won’t be needing it again! The majority’s perception is that a UPS protects a critical load from power outages. However, it also provides protection against other supply anomalies such as dips, surges, spikes and brown-outs, to provide clean continuous power to that all important critical load……
Failure is Not an Option
Failure is Not an Option
Apollo 13 was due to be the third crewed mission to land on the moon. Famously the mission was aborted when an oxygen tank ruptured just three days into the mission, resulting in loss of oxygen supply capacity and putting the lives of the crew in jeopardy. Fortunately, complete disaster was avoided by the crew devising a workaround for their oxygen supply using materials onboard the ship to affect a fix…..
It's an ill wind
It’s An ill Wind…
What single subject tends to get me jumping on my soapbox about UPS?…. It is how battery autonomies are calculated. Let me very briefly explain….
Unlocking the Myths of UPS “Variable Load Management
Unlocking the Myths of UPS “Variable Load Management”
One of the biggest drivers in UPS development over the last 10-15 years has been improving efficiency. Aided and abetted by the introduction of the transformerless design, the majority of manufacturers claimed efficiency figures are all now circa 97%. An important…