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RE: UPS and generator interaction?
From: kwallace () pcconnection com
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:03:53 -0500
Brian (nanog-list) wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to get a UPS to trigger a generator to start,
and
to switch over to the generator power automatically or does this type of thing just not exist?
What Patrick said.
But, on a minor note that probably won't affect your Symmetra but I'm posting in case anyone else here can shed light on.... we had a power event this AM. The transfer switch did it's magic and all was good... Except for two new APC1400's- they failed once the batteries drained. I triple-checked that they were on the right panel, played with sensitivity, even tried daisy-chaining one off a good working 2200. Nothing I did would convince the two 1400s they had power. Once the house power was restored they came back to life and look normal. I later learned that two of our colo customers with APC1400s had the same problem :( Other models (even a couple non-essential lower-end, dumb APC 450s and 650s) didn't blink at the generator power.
Mike
If you are sure they were on an EP panel, then you may want to verify the generator frequency/voltage. We had an old 120KVA UPS that was VERY sensitive to frequency, and would stay on battery while the generator was running, even if the frequency was only off 1/2 cycle. Regards, Keith
Current thread:
- Re: UPS and generator interaction?, (continued)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Patrick Muldoon (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Mike Leber (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Mike Lewinski (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Jay Hennigan (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Daniel Senie (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Joel Jaeggli (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Scott McGrath (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? David Lesher (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Robert Boyle (Mar 29)
- RE: UPS and generator interaction? kwallace (Mar 29)
- RE: UPS and generator interaction? Dave Hilton (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? David Lesher (Mar 30)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 30)
- RE: UPS and generator interaction? Eric Germann (Mar 30)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Deepak Jain (Mar 30)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Chris Adams (Mar 30)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Deepak Jain (Mar 30)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Patrick Muldoon (Mar 29)
- Re: UPS and generator interaction? Jay Hennigan (Mar 30)