Hi stevenal.
I know the situation may vary, but if you had to choose just one location, which would you usually end up choosing in the environments you are familiar with:
1. service entrance
2. the output of the emergency power ATS that is fed by utility (normal) and generator (emergency)...
Hi. A site I am working with is subject to a company spec that says only that commercial power line protection must be installed at or near the ATS.
The site is a telecom/data center hub. The building service main switchboard feeds into the standby generator ATS and from there into some...
regarding the UPS VRLA batteries and whether the site must have PPE on-hand, I was told by one of the guys that he found a code requiring the PPE for any battery maintenance, but it seems it could be argued that since the UPS maintenance is contracted out, as long as the sealed batteries are...
I've been reading the International Buildings Codes and the State of Virginia Universal Building Codes that I found online and neither say the walls have to be marked (www.amlegal.com and www.vbcoa.org respectively).
thanks for any feedback.
Hi
I have 2 battery safety questions if some kind person can provide his/her opinon.
1) Do VRLAs-based UPS and DC power systems require eye stations also?
I am wondering about a telecom datacenter application with a 30KVA UPS with VRLA batteries. Someone came through recently and dinged us...
I have 2 related questions if some kind person can provide his/her opinon.
1) Do VRLAs-based UPS and DC power systems require eye stations also?
I am wondering about a telecom datacenter application with a 30KVA UPS with VRLA batteries. Someone came through recently and dinged us as being...
I am not an expert on fire codes, but looking to figure out quickly if I have a potential issue here that I need to spend more time straightening out. My midwestern phone/cable company had some corporate internal consultants come in and do a larger review of some facilities as a way to "help"...
Friar Tuck,
here is some empiracle data from Sun Microsystems:
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-1613-13/Chapter5.html#34676
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-1613-13/Chapter4.html
I am wondering what the opinions are out there of people who do this more for a living. I know a service provider that needs high availability. Because some site are unattended, they protect against UPS failure by putting an open transition, standard mechanical-transfer ATS on the output side...
