Your company has lost power. You instantly have a lot to worry about, including wondering if your Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system will carry the load without missing a beat. AMETEK Solidstate Controls’ equipment is designed to take away your worry by being your reliable, on-line system.
How do we know your system will carry the load? Our batteries have a hard-wired connection into the inverter without going through any switching or logic circuitry. This on-line connection allows the batteries to provide current to the load, through the inverter, if the power goes out. It ensures the load is never dropped and eliminates the need to detect a loss of power first. Some may perceive that their load was briefly dropped because they think a switch needs to occur to run the systems batteries during an outage. These misperceptions can come from commercial and other brands of off-line UPS systems and how they operate during an outage. Off-line systems will either have a sensing circuit that detects the loss of power or the system will operate on bypass and switch to batteries when the outage is detected.
The only times the batteries in a Solidstate Controls system may fail to carry the load are when they have gone bad or have not been maintained. We often tell our clients ‘Without good batteries, you don’t have a UPS system,’ and we’re always here to help keep you from finding out the hard way with a lost load. Our service team can conduct load testing, along with other battery inspections, as part of your regular preventative maintenance to help ensure your batteries are being maintained, haven’t gone bad and are ready to carry a load during an outage.
As an additional assurance that your system didn’t drop the load, make sure your UPS system is equipped with alarms and a battery monitor. Alarms include a DC threshold sensor and can tell when a load is dropped. A battery monitor can continuously monitor each individual battery and provide alerts for failing batteries before an emergency strikes.
Next time you’re faced with an outage, know that we’re always on and ready to protect your load.
Learn more about other problems that can arise with off-line UPS systems.