S&C Electric Co. has completed extensive testing of the inverter and batteries in the redesigned S&C PureWave UPS System, confirming that both the low- and medium-voltage versions can provide 60 seconds—one full minute—of run time at full load.
This enhanced capability offers significant advantages to critical power users. To obtain power protection beyond 30 seconds, such power users formerly needed to install a costly back-up generator. For facilities already incorporating a back-up generator in the power protection scheme, the full minute of run time yields reserve battery power for repeated power quality events – permitting an additional crank cycle of the generator (typical diesel generator crank cycles are 15 seconds long, followed by 15 seconds "rest").
