Q1. What is UPS?
A: The full name of UPS is Uninterruptible Power Supply. It is a device that provides battery backup when the electrical power
fails or drops to an unacceptable voltage level.
Q2. Why should I need UPS?
A: Unstable power quality will affect the normal operation of computers. UPS can provide computer with power to protect against
wide utility voltage when electrical power fails. It offers equipment pure power and store important data for users. Therefore,
UPS have been widely applied in servers, datacenter, critical network devices, sensitive electronic equipment, telecom, etc.
Q3. How many types of UPS?
A: There are three typical types of UPS: off-line UPS, on-line UPS, and line interactive UPS.
Q4. What is off-line UPS?
A: Off-line UPS will supply power only when power fails.
Q5. What is on-line UPS?
A: Under normal situation, on-line UPS will supply power after rectification and transform to bypass only when UPS is out of
order, overload or overheat. On-line UPS normally provides pure sine wave output which is same as the mains provided by power
plants.
Q6. How many kinds of power problems?
A: Except the blackout, there are sags, spikes, surges, noise & transients which will make the PC or other high-tech equipments
damaged or lifetime shortened.
Q7.What is the application of UPS? Is there any limit for it? A: Most UPS are designed for PC, high technical equipments & medical
appliances and not to conduct loads just like cooling fans, refrigerators that have motors. Those kinds of equipments will damage
UPS. Moreover, copy machine and laser printers which have huge starting current also could not be connected with UPS. Huge
starting current will impact the capacity of UPS.
Q8. What are the impact of different output waveforms?
A: There are three major types of loads: resistive load (lamps); SPS load (PC power supply) and conductive load (motors). All the
types of load can be used with pure sine wave. However, only resistive and SPS loads can be used with Modified sine wave.
Q9. What is the impact of different transfer time to the PC?
A: It doesn’t exist transfer time for on-line UPS. There is a short transfer time between 2ms to 10 ms for power transformation of
off-line and line interactive UPS. Actually, when the blackout happens, the power supply of PC could continue work for 16ms.
Hence, most PC will still work normally with short transfer time.