Your Guide to Critical Power Solutions

A BMS can show that a generator is running or that a UPS has a common alarm. Those points are useful, but they may not answer the questions an incident...

'How many hours will the generator run?' sounds like a simple fuel-tank question. In practice, the answer changes with electrical load, usable rather than nominal fuel, engine consumption, battery recharge,...

An automatic transfer switch may remain in one position for months, then be expected to detect a mains failure, initiate standby generation and transfer critical load within seconds. That low-frequency,...