By Mike Elms, Managing Director, CENTIEL UK 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...
Leading UPS manufacturer CENTIEL UK has confirmed it is providing the back-up power for the new NHS Nightingale Hospital at the ExCeL centre in London. CENTIEL is proud to be playing its part in supporting the NHS by delivering a five-week programme of works to...
by Mike Elms, Managing Director, CENTIEL UK What single subject tends to get me jumping on my soapbox about UPS systems?…. It is how battery autonomies are calculated. Let me very briefly explain. At tender stage, batteries are sized by calculation. The actual proof...
When the mains fail, the only thing protecting the critical load is your UPS and your batteries. This is really the only time you will find out if your batteries are up to the job. The consequences of battery failure in this scenario are far reaching, resulting in...
Mike Elms, managing director at Centiel UK, explains how businesses could save their power and their reputation by simply taking better care of their UPS. Years ago, before I joined Centiel, I remember a legacy UPS system that we used to look after under a maintenance...
