STANDBY POWER/UPS
To UPS hire or not to UPS hire? Adem Kemal BEng (Hons) MSc MIET, service director at Levant UPS Ltd, explores the benefits (and pitfalls) of hiring your UPS equipment.
How many times have you seen a site running a high capacity UPS on as little as 5% load? 12 www.datacentrereview.com March 2020
s demand for global round the clock IT services increases in the form of multi-billion-pound web-based businesses, so does our reliance on uninterrupted power in order to access these services 24-7 from anywhere in the world. With changing customer demand and unwillingness to commit to high capital expenditure during these turbulent economic times, UPS hire is becoming an increasingly popular choice for those clients who are wanting to exploit the flexibility and non-committal aspect of leasing UPS systems, either on a short or long-term basis. UPS failures, whilst less common on reliable well-maintained equipment, can and do occur. As with anything else in life, the likelihood is greatly increased with age. For those clients who need immediate access to reliable power protection systems whilst they assess their requirements for either repair or replacement of the failed equipment, a hire UPS makes perfect sense. Costly repairs of ageing equipment can often lead to a waste of resources, whilst valuable time to assess the requirements and needs for future equipment can ensure that the wrong decision is not taken when
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