[69181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UPS and generator interaction?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Muldoon)
Mon Mar 29 13:38:04 2004
From: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:37:04 -0500
In-Reply-To: <992E533DBE35D11188960060083748C802C13AEB@cliff.confluence.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Monday 29 March 2004 01:26 pm, 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?
I think you are looking at it wrong, you need an Automatic Transfer Switch.
It connects to both commercial power and your generator, and provides a feed
into your panels. Your UPS's sit in front of the ATS, and provide clean
power. If/When you loose commercial power, the ATS will detect this and
power on the generator, after a configurable amount of time it will switch to
generator power, until commercial power comes back and is stable for X amount
of time.
Hope that helps,
-Patrick
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