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Safety of Surge Protection Devices

How to prevent catastrophic failures BY DAVID KOMM, Mersen Electrical Protection A surge protective device (SPD) plays an important role in protecting critical electronic components. However, all SPDs are sacrificial devices and, depending on the design and construction of the device, when it...

Power Protection Misconceptions

Controlling costs and increasing efficiency using UPS systems BY JOHN COLLINS, Eaton Corporation Controlling energy costs and increasing electrical efficiency are both common topics among today’s data center operators. However, making certain power is both dependable and clean can sadly often be...

Emergency Power for Data Centers

In our cloud-based digital world, data must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week—no matter the state of the electrical grid. Computer downtime not only upsets production, but also negatively affects customer goodwill—quickly affecting an organization’s bottom line. In fact,...

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Assessing the Limitations of Line-Interactive UPS

Assessing the Limitations of Line-Interactive UPS Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) are a crucial safeguard for ensuring the continuous operation of critical systems. Line-interactive UPS systems, a popular choice for small and medium-sized environments, offer a balance of affordability and...

UPS Systems Training

Our 2-Day UPS Systems Training course teaches the proper and effective techniques for designing, operating, testing and maintaining UPS and emergency power systems. This two-day technical course begins with a discussion of the need for UPS systems. It then covers the relative comparisons between...
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Mission-Critical Protection

Increasing power backup reliability with flywheel energy storage

BY FRANK DELATTRE, VYCON

When it comes to protecting critical operations from power failures, a company can never be too prepared, especially with a world that requires 24/7 operations and availability. By definition, being properly prepared for a disaster—whether natural or man-made—means having reliable backup power protection so that operations continue to run smoothly.

Every mission-critical operation has some sort of power backup in place...

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