Critical Power Distribution Architecture

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From Storage Battery Systems, Inc.

"High-Availability" power systems require Reliability, Functionality, Maintainability, and Fault Tolerance. The distribution of AC power between your UPS and load equipment will ultimately determine your Maintainability and Fault Tolerance. The first two white papers in this series explained UPS Internal Topologies and UPS System Redundancy Options.

See the end of this article for ways to obtain those earlier papers. This document will explore methods of distributing power from the UPS system to your critical load equipment. Studies show that 80% of all power-related downtime is caused by disruptions between the UPS and the critical load.

Failures can happen because of human error, equipment failures, load faults, short circuits and any number of peculiar events. Probability says that your equipment will eventually fail, and that human error will happen. Therefore it's important to arrange your power distribution system to enable it to survive any single failure or blunder
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