Power Protection For Extended Blackouts

Posted on 16th November 2018

A properly-designed online UPS provides its critical load with excellent protection from utility mains power disturbances and brief outages of a few seconds or possibly minutes. However, to ensure uninterrupted...

Xtra VFI – Maintaining UPS Efficiency for Diminished Loads

Posted on 25th September 2018

Although modern transformerless UPSs offer a flat efficiency/load curve for loads of about 25% or more, efficiency will drop significantly at lower levels. However, a solution exists, in the form...

The Kohler PW 5000/TP

Posted on 21st May 2018

A compact high performance, high efficiency UPS with immediate availability The Kohler PW 5000/TP is a true on-line 3-Phase UPS that provides enhanced, high-performance power protection in a compact format....

Keeping control of your remote UPSs

Posted on 21st May 2018

Electronic equipment used for data processing, communications and industrial control must be protected from electrical disturbances as well as complete power failures. Good-quality uninterruptible power supplies can provide both forms...

Supplying continuous power under all conditions – the role of the static switch

Posted on 26th March 2018

Kohler Uninterruptible Power (UPSs) are well-known as devices that can support critical loads by using stored energy during mains power blackouts. In reality though, they must also offer protection from...

Why do I need a UPS?

Posted on 21st February 2018

Today, data centres and other IT systems of any size inevitably rely on UPSs to safeguard their data processing and communications hardware – and the UPS’s role is not only...

Understanding the role of static switches

Posted on 21st February 2018

Kohler Uninterruptible Power (UPSs) provide their best protection in on line mode, where they filter power to the critical load. However, under some circumstances running the UPS in offline mode...

Meeting a Data Centre’s Competing Demands

Posted on 25th January 2018

Larger enterprises spend millions of pounds in energy every year with data centres using huge amounts of electricity. This reality, set against a background of rising energy costs and growing...

The Internet of Things, data centres, and UPSs

Posted on 17th November 2017

The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining traction at an accelerating pace; Gartner[i] has predicted 26 billion connected devices by 2020, while others are calling even higher numbers. Since the...

UPS Terminology Buster

Posted on 17th November 2017

If you’re trying to specify a UPS system, you’ll find yourself confronted, as with any technology, by a fair amount of terminology – which could be confusing if you’re not...

The Kohler PW 6000 Three-phase Standalone Uninterruptible Power Supply

Posted on 11th July 2017

The Kohler PW 6000 is a three-phase transformerless UPS system which is parallelable to 5 mVA with 99.9999% availability. Offering unrivalled power protection for mission-critical environments the Kohler PW 6000 also benefits from a...

The Kohler PW 9000DPA Three-phase Modular Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)