Professor Mackay, the governments new energy advisor is predicting rolling blackouts for the UK according to this article. Good news for those in the Uninterruptible Power Supply industry then?
Most UPS Systems designed for home use or the small office are there to protect against momentary outages up to and around 10 minutes or so. If you want power during an extended outage you will either require a lot of batteries or move to a generator of some description. You will also need to determine what exactly it is you wish to protect. For example, do you want to protect individual pieces of equipment – thereby needing a UPS per piece unless they are close to each other. Or do you want to protect everything on the same circuit – in which case you will need to connect the UPS into your existing electrical infrastructure.
The advantages of a UPS over a generator is that the UPS can be located indoors, whereas a generator needs venting and so is best placed outdoors, but in either case you may need some electrical wiring done.
We’ll shortly be introducing a range of UPS Systems to power entire homes or just circuits that are ideal for long run time applications. They are wall-mounted and have extra large chargers for maintaining a large battery bank. They also have some very neat features that you will be amazed by, but I’m not ready to tell you yet. Watch this space…..
