Unravelling the Mystery Behind Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Course Overview – UPS Basics
In the UPS Basics Course, we look at the basics of the uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) hardware. This is to ensure designers can integrate UPS hardware into the overall electrical and UPS system design. When reviewing consultant designs for electrical networks that include UPS we often find incorrect assumptions have been made about the specification of the UPS hardware that causes incompatibility issues with the electrical system.
This course detail the different UPS hardware options and features available. Only by understanding the options available when specifying a UPS product, can it be assured that the UPS hardware is integrated into the electrical network design.
By the end, you’ll have a clearer understanding of how (UPS) work, how this essential device safeguards electronic devices, and keeps you connected during power outages. You will also understand the risks associated with each specification decision.
The main key learning questions that will be answered are:
- What exactly is a UPS?
- How do they work? and
- What do you need to understand about UPS hardware to provide a complete UPS system design?
Why Enrol on UPS Basics?
It is very common for designers and installers to a UPS as a solution to a power quality and availability issue without fully addressing all underlying root cause first. This sticking plaster approach often often ignores how the UPS will effect the wider electrical system design and leads to more problems than it solves.
One client we worked with installed 500 UPS systems within their estate to provide resilience to power fluctuations but due to incorrect design, the first UPS unit installed had failed before the project had finished, and the increase in fire risk of the buildings increased their insurance premiums so much it dwarfed the installation cost. Overall the project decreased business resilience by increasing the risk of fire more than it decreased the risk of power fluctuations affecting business operations.
If you want to avoid these mistakes our UPS Basics Course is the best starting point to develop and refine your UPS system design skills.
UPS Basics Leaning Outcomes
Based on our experience dealing with the troublesome UPS installations, we have created this course to provide a reliable technical reference for the design of UPS systems.
The principals and terminology used are coordinated with our electrical calculation app making the design of UPS systems in our app simple.
At the end of the course, you will understand the different options available within a UPS and how those options must be considered when designing an electrical system containing UPSs.
Lessons
- Benefits, Risks & Applications
- Types of UPS
- Static Bypass
- Single & Dual Inputs
- Single vs Three Phase
External Sources
All PrioirtyOne.energy course are developed by Chartered Engineers and during the development of the content, as many relevant sources of authority are consulted. For all the courses related to UPS system design, the external sources consulted include:
- Vertiv, UPS hardware manufacturer
- APC (Schneider), UPS hardware manufacturer
- Kohler, UPS hardware manufacturer
- IET, UK based Institute of Engineering Technology
- IEEE, USA based Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
