Personal Solution Pac software gives users information on parameters such as equipment power consumption and remaining battery life

Personal Solution Pac 3.0 for Linux is billed as the first complete power management software solution for Linux. The Personal Solution Pac software gives users information on parameters such as equipment power consumption and remaining battery life. It also manages automatic and smooth system shutdowns.

Darrell Smithson, Director of Sales for MGE UK comments: ‘The Linux version of Personal Solution Pac 3.0 is easy to install and operate’.

‘Its features include user-friendly graphic interfaces, automatic detection of UPSs connected, USB and serial communication, use of native distribution systems for software installation and updating, a taskbar icon for easy access to the supervision interface and a graphical pop-up windows for fast access to alarms’.

Socomec Sicon UPS’s latest family of monitoring and control software enables users to monitor, control, manage and perform an orderly shutdown of their UPS Systems before the power supply is interrupted. Compatible with the company’s complete UPS range (400VA to 4800kVA) it is ideal for supporting mission critical applications and taking users’ uptime to a new level.

Although a UPS is designed to protect equipment, the protection provided to hardware and its associated data is increased significantly if it’s used in conjunction with communications software.

Products such as Univision safely carry out actions such as the shutdown of applications There are three Socomec Sicon software solutions in the range, which meet any demand.

Univision Standard for the single PC user or SOHO is available to download free from the Socomec website.

This easily installed, user friendly GUI (graphical user interface) allows the user to see parameters of the UPS and the supply.

Univision Pro contains all the features and benefits of standard software and has the enhanced capability of issuing the down command to all network servers or workstations.

Netvision SNMP Card (Simple Network Management Protocol) takes power quality, management and control to the next level.

Set up by American Power Conversion, Data Center University is an online educational institution for IT professionals, engineers and people involved in building or operating server rooms and data centres. Data Center University by APC includes both classroom and web-based courses. The initial launch offers 14 foundational courses and six advanced courses in the subject areas of data centre design, build and operations.

All courses, which are vendor neutral and do not promote APC products, focus on the critical technologies and best practices that are relevant to leading-edge, scaleable, modular data centre infrastructure.

Data centre executives with decades of combined experience participated in the development of the courses.

Individuals can complete most of the online, on-demand courses in less than one hour.

Data Center University is an educational partner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

‘Our goal is to provide data centre professionals with training on real world issues, not just theory’, said Rodger B Dowdell Jr, APC’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

‘We expect that through Data Center University’s continuing education courses, this institution can help address the critical shortage of qualified data centre professionals in the industry’.

‘Data Center University will provide individuals with standardised training in the fundamental issues of data centre design, build and operations, as well as give them the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage real world issues in today’s sophisticated data centre’.

‘IT professionals now have access to high-quality data centre education through this vendor-neutral, one-stop, fast track educational institution’.

Data Center University gives IT professionals an unprecedented opportunity to broaden knowledge on a wide variety of topics related to data centre design and management, including the latest high density applications that are creating challenging design issues for enterprises.

Other popular courses include ‘Fundamentals of cooling’: ‘Fundamentals of power’, and ‘Fundamentals of physical security’.

From now until 31st March 2006, Data Center University will offer all online courses at no charge.

Beginning 1st April, each online course will cost $79 (approximately GBP 45.50).

Web-based education is self-paced and available on-demand.

Beginning in the third quarter of 2006, Data Center University will offer live classroom instruction in various locations.

The website will list future classroom schedules.

Data Center University also will offer certification paths beginning in the second quarter of 2006.

‘Data Center University addresses the great need for advanced education in the disciplines of planning network-critical physical infrastructure and designing data centres’, added Dowdell.

Based at the UK Headquarters in Cirencester, Cowley, who has many years industry experience working for market leaders such as Groupe Schneider and Emerson, will head the sales team of one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of uninterruptible power supply systems. One of the few UPS companies to manufacture and market its own equipment, Socomec offer a complete range of UPS Systems rated from 250VA to 4800kVA achieved by multiple configuration of six 800kVA single modules.

It was at the forefront in the introduction of fast switching IGBT and digital signal processing (DSP).

Socomec also offers a complementary range of special application equipment including; load transfer modules (static switches 16-1750A), DC rectifiers, emergency lighting inverters, harmonic treatment systems and diesel generators.

American Power Conversion has been awarded ‘highly commended’ status for the second year in succession by the Irish National Safety Organisation (NISO). The prestigious ‘Electronics/Electrical Award 2005′ award recognises improvements in safety at work and is awarded to organisations for outstanding achievements in meeting Irish National Safety Organisation standards.

It was announced at the 14th Annual Awards Ceremony dinner, held in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin.

The judging of the awards was undertaken by an independent panel of experts.

Over 100 companies from a wide range of industrial sectors are nominated for the awards.

This year’s nominees included many leading household names including Hewlett Packard, Tyco Healthcare, Abbott Ireland, and O’Malley Construction.

Bill Ryan, Health and Safety Manager, American Power Conversion Ireland said: ‘The electronics/electrical award is only given to companies that can demonstrate the highest standards with regard to management of a safe work environment’.

‘Safety concerns are a critical part of APC culture and how we conduct our business, from our products right through to the wellbeing of our staff and customers’.

‘Receiving the award for a second year in succession is a significant endorsement of the ongoing development of our health and safety policy and we are naturally delighted that the National Safety Organisation has chosen to recognise us with this important accolade’.

‘The new Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, which came into effect from this September, raises in the bar in terms of personnel wellbeing, and APC will continue its hard work to avoid accidents in the workplace’.

Start with the news release UPS company makes efficiency commitment from Chloride Power Protection, which we summarised at the time by saying “Demands for environmentally friendly products and services are constantly increasing and, in signing up to a new EU scheme, Chloride has committed itself to meeting these challenges”. Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Fuel cell distribution deal reached from Chloride Power Protection: “Currently, IdaTech and Chloride are installing ElectraGen5 fuel cell systems in Europe at several corporate locations for backup power”.

In March 2005, we covered the news from Harath concerning its UPS maintenance - take a look at Maintenance keeps critical power systems up which says: “Harath has recently strengthened its uninterruptible power systems maintenance services capabilities, by increasing the scope of its site focused ‘critical power service’ maintenance programme”.

Amplicon has partnered with Opti-UPS to deliver a first class, cost-effective package of uninterruptible power supplies to European customers

Enhancing the company’s rapidly expanding professional computing range, it is able to offer end users a total computing package. Three new series have been added to Amplicon’s lineup: ‘Value’, ‘Power’ and ‘Durable’. The Value series is an offline, small, desktop UPS with a power rating of 575VA, ideal for SOHO applications.
The line-interactive Power series provides a true sinewave output and can be either floor standing or rack-mount, with power ratings from 800VA to 3kVA.

The Power series is suitable for general and server based computer applications.

Finally, the Durable series features online double conversion and is rack mount, or floor standing with power ratings from 1kVA to 3kVA.

Durable is aimed at top-end applications such as sensitive electronic equipment.

The online double conversion features zero switching delay, with a clean regulated output free from mains born noise and transients.

Both Power and Durable series’ feature SNMP management card options.

Every UPS model is supplied with free Optisafe Extreme control software covering almost all operating systems.

Jon Hutson, Amplicon’s Professional Computing Product Manager stated: ‘We are delighted to be partnered with Opti-UPS to distribute their products in Europe’.

‘Their UPSs are particularly suitable for combining with professional computers and complement the range we currently offer’, Richard Kaiser Technical Director for Opti UK added: ‘Amplicon was the ideal choice when selecting a partner in the UK, with its expertise in both power and industrial computing areas’.

‘We are looking forward to working closely together to provide customers with their optimum solutions’.

A 160kVA Delphys Elite UPS system has been installed in a state-of-the-art catheter laboratory at Cheltenham General Hospital to ensure total power continuity to its new Innova 2100 equipment

One of Socomec Sicon’s 160kVA Delphys Elite UPS Systems has been installed in a state-of-the-art catheter laboratory at Cheltenham General Hospital to ensure total power continuity to its new Innova 2100 equipment. Innova provides surgeons with high resolution digital images while they perform angioplasty and cartoid stenting, with digital subtracted angiography (DSA), and a wide variety of other peripheral procedures.

It is essential to have an uninterrupted power supply, and particularly through a critical seven minute period during procedures, when power loss would leave the surgeon blind to the position of the catheter within the artery.

The Delphys Elite, which was specified by Engineering Services Design Practice of Redditch, offers the ideal solution for medical applications providing a reliable and secure power supply.

It was one of the first UPS systems to feature an IGBT rectifier for extremely low harmonic re-injection, a THDi of less than 3% (without filters) and a power factor (PF) 0.99.

This ensures it will not interfere with the integrity of sensitive equipment.

The Delphys Elite family includes three phase modules covering six power ratings ranging from 60 to 200kVA.

It complies with IEC61000-3-4, performs to IEC62040-3 EMC meets EN50091-2 and IEC62040-2 and complied with safety standards EN50091-1-2 and IEC62040-1-2.

Until two years ago, all Gloucestershire patients requiring angioplasty - a medical procedure in which a balloon is used to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels of the heart - had to travel to hospitals in Oxford or Bristol for treatment.

The new GBP 1 million lab has already started treating its first patients and the trust’s cardiac team hopes the second laboratory will now enable them to perform as many as 350-400 angioplasty procedures a year.

The newly redesigned ON Series 700 and 1000VA extended runtime UPS and slimline battery packs are designed for flexible mounting in either a vertical, horizontal or 19in rack-mount orientation

The newly redesigned ON Series 700 and 1000VA extended runtime UPS and slimline battery packs are designed for flexible mounting in either a vertical, horizontal or 19in (two- or four-post) rack-mount orientation with a 23in rack-mount option available. An added feature is the comprehensive front-panel display that can be easily rotated by the user so it can be easily viewed using any of the mounting orientations.

The new design requires minimal floor or rack space with the UPS and internal batteries occupying only 2U.

The extended run battery packs not only provide additional runtime (something no other UPS in this power range can offer); they only require 2U of space.

Operating at 60Hz frequencies, the ON700 and ON1000 boast a higher power density rating than competitive UPS products and are excellent choices for applications requiring a small footprint.

The new ON Series UPSs are available with advanced communications and MopUPS Professional software for UPS manageability.

The ON Series also provide for low maintenance and easy serviceability with hot-swap, user-replaceable batteries.

Backed by a 5-year warranty (2-year on batteries), the new universal-mount ON Series 700 and 1000VA UPSs and slimline extended runtime battery packs are available now.

The power-conditioned ON Series UPS models are built on a field proven, extremely reliable architecture featuring high-performance power conditioning integrated with a highly reliable and full-featured uninterruptible power supply.

The ON Series UPS virtually eliminates all power contaminants with a full-time, online isolating transformer and also features a comprehensive front panel display to inform the user of UPS and battery conditions.

The automatic self-test feature ensures battery and system readiness.

Hot-swap, user replaceable battery packs allow for rapid replacement without downtime and without risk.

ONBoost compensates for line sags and brownouts and conserves batteries.

Advanced mode communications signal alerts recognised by MopUPS Communications software for Unix, Windows or NetWare - allowing fault response automation and UPS and system management.

New from Advance-Galatrek, PowerElite MultiTec uninterruptible power systems are designed to deliver sinewave power protection up to 10kVA, and are ideal for integration into medium-sized professional data and voice processing networks. With capacity options ranging between 6 and 10kVA, the PowerElite MultiTec ETM series uses dynamic input and output filters to guarantee protection of the load from upstream electrical pollution.

In fact, PowerElite’s filters even continue to protect the load when the unit is in static bypass mode.

Either single- or three-phase input can be selected at the time of installation.

PowerElite offers wide-ranging protection against surges, sags and brownouts in the mains power supply.

Each unit in the range can generate a stable sinewave output over a very wide input voltage range, without needing to resort to battery power.

In fact, PowerElite can still deliver high quality mains power down to 140V AC.

This level of control also translates to a superior ride through capability, enabling PowerElite units to cope with mains power failures of up to 40ms, without switching to battery power.

The latest MultiTec technology gives PowerElite UPSs the ability to adapt operation modes to match the sensitivity of their loads and the characteristics of the mains power supply.

Users can instruct the UPS to operate in either on-line or economy modes, or even enable the UPS to use its own SmartActive mode to select the most appropriate operating criteria from a set range of parameters.

PowerElite’s online mode uses the inverter to power the load, delivering a continuous, stable, break-free, sinewave supply.

In economy mode, the MultiTec circuitry mimics the characteristics of a line interactive UPS, with the load being powered through dynamic filters.

This allows the inverter to remain active, but not powering the load, until a sudden fluctuation or failure occurs in the mains.

The result is overall efficiencies exceeding 98%, with a consequent reduction in overall wear and tear on the UPS assemblies - ideal for installations where the mains is relatively stable, or the load less critical.

As well as being virtually silent in operation, PowerElite UPSs incorporate front-end PFC circuitry, to achieve a true sinewave output.

Full microprocessor control provides each unit with the utmost in reliability and stability.

It also makes the UPS one of the most communicative in the marketplace, with an easy to use front panel keypad and LCD display.

For remote communications, there is an RS232 port, allowing easy integration into existing communications networks, using the PowerShield management software supplied with the UPS.