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With businesses becoming increasingly reliant on their UPS power supplies, and seek to mitigate power failures that could prove disastrous, businesses should be looking into UPS power supply systems and UPS maintenance programmes that keep their business up and running. Protecting equipment and ensuring uninterrupted power supply, the strength of your UPS systems is a testament to how much you value your clients, your customers and your team members.
There are many reasons why UPS systems are important:
Preventing Power Failure & Downtime
Whether you need to power an office full of computers, a range of heavy machinery or your wind farms and solar farms, a loss of power supply to a business’s critical infrastructure can result in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of pounds worth of downtime, should your UPS fail. If the UPS systems go offline or fail to switch over to the UPS power backup generator, they could leave the very equipment they are designed to protect vulnerable. Regular UPS maintenance, and upgrading where necessary, will keep your key business equipment in check.
UPS & Data Loss
Highly confidential information and sensitive data held at data centres, or in your company’s own record systems could be subject to damaging lags or loss in the event of a power outage. This is extremely important in the healthcare sector too – where loss of extremely personal and private data could make both patients’ care, and medical staffs’ ability to help, quite difficult. If you have someone on the operating table, dependable power supplies are important too. With regular uninterruptible power supply and UPS power supplies maintenance, you can ensure instant and constant power and that an immediate switchover from your mains to your UPS is also achievable.
UPS & Prolonged Lifespan
To ensure UPS efficiency over its lifespan, the capacitors within your UPS systems need to be maintained at the manufacturer’s suggested and recommended ambient temperature, humidity and cleanliness levels. In general, keeping your UPS in a dry, tidy, clean and well-lit area, along with checking that all alarms and indicators are working properly, will help to optimise your UPS’s lifespan. A well-thought out and structured UPS maintenance programme is key to this, and the team we have here at Dale Power Solutions covers everything. We look at the UPS itself, as well as the battery and generator, if applicable. During our maintenance visits, a full inspection of your UPS’s instruments is carried out, and checked for correct and suitable operation. Meter readings are also conducted, and recorded and checked for accuracy. Along with local and remote monitoring checks, as well as identification of any component degradation – there’s a lot more that our uninterrupted power supply maintenance can do, and provide, for your business. Should you operate in harsh weather conditions, we even even suggest a rugged UPS to increase power efficiency.
Optimised Battery Health
Where batteries are used with a UPS system, most notably Valve Regulated Lead Acid batteries (VRLA), they operate in what is known as ‘float mode’. In float mode, the acid batteries send charge to ensure they maintain full charge. When the UPS needs the battery backup power supply in either frequent short cycles or infrequent long cycles, this results in the batteries being discharged. If discharges are frequent or deep, this will shorten battery life expectancy.UPS batteries should be inspected periodically for accurate predictions of the end of its working life. Our battery maintenance tests include impedance and load testing to give a full report on the health of the batteries inside the UPS.
UPS, Emergency Power Systems Repairs & Emergency Power Supply
Regardless of how well you maintain your UPS equipment, unexpected power outages and power failures may still occur, making it necessary to have an emergency power systems and emergency UPS power supplies call out service on hand to help. The Dale Power Solutions team is available 24/7 every day of the year, meaning that we are on-hand to assist with unexpected problems. Regardless of whether it’s 4am in the morning, 10pm at night or there’s even a national holiday going on, we’re there for you whenever you need us, and especially when you need us the most. Therefore, if you own a UPS system and are looking for UPS maintenance or UPS supply in areas including Kent, London, Gwynt y Môr and Carlisle, among other areas in the UK, then contact us today on 0330 999 3000 to find out more.