Back to: UPS Basics
Although UPS systems offer many benefits across various applications, from our experience, they are too often not designed and installed correctly. Given a UPS plays a vital role in ensuring the uninterrupted operation of servers, data centres, and other critical infrastructure, design oversights can turn into a costly mistake for the asset owners.
Designing and installing UPSs correctly to ensure the benefits outweigh the costs and ensure the system works for the long term is more complex than many realise. This course is the first in a collection of courses on UPS design and starts with the hardware of the UPS.
When designing an electrical system containing a UPS, we view the UPS as a black box meaning the inputs and outputs to the UPS block box must be fully defined understood.
The purpose of this course is to:
- Provide designers an overview of the UPS as a black box,
- Define the major interface points between the UPS and the electrical network,
- Provide technical attributes for the interface points,
- Be agnostic to a specific manufacturer, and
- Using simple language and supporting diagrams
The scope of this course is to:
- Treat the UPS black box within a wider electrical system,
- Look only at the major interface points, not every available option for all manufacturers, and
- Assume the electrical network with UPS is a “typical” installation.
The UPS basics course will not look at every possible feature of a UPS, it will look only at the pertinent features which are typically needed to be understood for in system designs.
