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The importance of Surge Protection Devices (SPD) when protecting an uninterruptible
power supply (UPS)
“Ihave a UPS, why do | need an SPD?”
For over 15 years, this has been a common
objection dealt with on a regular basis. 2 Types of UPS Systems
Following are some facts about UPS systems
and their susceptibility issues, as well as some
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AUPS protects electrical and electronic
systems, process controllers, and data against
the loss of the primary power source, which is
the utility company.
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> Many UPSs incorporate relatively low Power selected bank of batteries
loads alongwith a _ to achieve the
energy and low pulse life Category A or B battery bank desired run times.
surge suppression. Within this
This low energy built-in surge suppression category, you find
may protect the UPS and its connected load standby, line
from a limited number of small hits, but it interactive and
should not be relied upon as a transient surge double conversion
solution, The Institute of Electrical and types of UPS
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognized this
problem that a networked Transient Voltage
Surge Suppression device and UPS TVSS
protection is required.
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Surge protection is recommended at the
rotary UPS input to protect the motor
windings, static switch, bypass path to the
loads, and rectifier/charger and inverter when
present. Additionally, protection at the output
is recommended to protect sensitive loads
from inductive transients developed in the
generator inductance and/or inductive loads
served by the rotary UPS as these loads are
cycled on and off.
Transient Susceptibility of Uninterruptible Power Supplies
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AC-to-DC converters, the static bypass
switches, and to a lesser extent the DC-to-AC
inverters are all susceptible to transient
damage and require surge protection.
Electronic UPS devices contain transient
susceptible electronic control circuitry that
determines if the UPS should be delivering
power from the DC-AC converter (batteries) or
from the secondary AC source (utility power).
Additionally, when in bypass mode due to
maintenance or failure, the sensitive loads
should be protected with a surge suppression
device from transient disruption, degradation,
or damage from transient appearing on the
secondary AC source or utility power.
A UPS is designed to provide backup power when main power fails and provide
low-level, minor transient protection. Significant surge events, such as a lightning
strike, are beyond the capacity of a UPS to manage. The best way to divert this
excess energy and dissipate its harmful effects is to do so before it gets to the UPS.
All major surge events should be handled before reaching the UPS input side.
Placing a surge suppressor in front of the UPS isolates it and its connected
equipment from major surge events.
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voltage producing phenomena are
harmful to most UPS equipment and to
sensitive electronic load equipment (e.g.
via an unprotected static-switch bypass
around the UPS). Therefore, it is
recommended practice that both the
rectifier-charger input circuit to the UPS
and the associated UPS bypass circuits
(including the manual maintenance
bypass circuit) be equipped with effective
Category B TVSS protection as specified
in IEEE Standard Section 9.11
‘IEEE standard assumes that a TVSS
protection network is in place when
discussing UPS surge and transient
protection,
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downstream switchboards and panel boards
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Today, many UPS manufacturers provide
low-level lightning and surge protection.
Atypical UPS designed to power a
computer may claim the UPS passes
ANSI/IEEE C62.41-2002 Category A
and/or Category B test waveforms. In
general, one would assume that the UPS
survives these transients, since there is
no pass or fail in the ANSV/IEEE
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The adequacy of this built-in surge
suppression to protect the connected
load(s), the let-through voltages, the
energy handling capability, and the
number of hits of a given amplitude for
the various transient waveforms that the
built-in surge suppression will survive
generally is not provided by the UPS
manufacturer.
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A Transient Voltage Surge Suppression unit placed in front of a UPS will protect the
investment and its connected equipment, During UPS maintenance and downtime, the
SPD will filter out transients and surges from the line thus protecting the connected
computer equipment from damage. The UPS itself will benefit from fewer maintenance
problems and less downtime.
The customer has already committed to keeping their facilities continually operational
when investing in sensitive electronic equipment and a UPS. The additional investment
in the SPD is minimal by comparison. When downtime can cost a company as much as
$78,000 per hour (according to studies conducted and published by Computer
Technology Review magazine), preventing even one downtime incident is significant.
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