What is a UPS and how does it work?

Dan Carnovale, Director of Eaton’s Power System Experience Centers (PSEC), is back to discuss uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and how they work.

As the electrification of devices and systems increases, so does our dependency on reliable, clean power. Dan explains how UPSs not only provide resiliency through power outages but can also address up to nine power issues. Also, several factors to consider for selecting the correct UPS category based on your system including off-line or standby UPSs, line-interactive and on-line or double conversion UPSs.
At the PSEC, we can demonstrate how various Eaton UPSs perform under different power issues including, voltage sags and swells, interruptions, undervoltage, overvoltage, harmonics, transients, electrical noise, transients or surges and frequency variations.

Read more at our UPS FAQ page:

Thank you for watching one of our many educational videos on the topic of power systems. Schedule a visit to one of Eaton's Power Systems Experience Centers in either Pittsburgh or Houston to learn more!

00:00 Intro
00:49 What is a UPS
02:21 Types of UPS categories
04:58 Power issues that a UPS can solve
05:41 UPS demonstration
07:39 Double conversion UPS vs VFD
08:58 Selecting the correct UPS for your system
11:04 UPS batteries

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[_letter_animal]

I got myself a 9E 1000 because winter is coming, and with it power outages.
I wanted to ensure perfect stability and quality so got a double conversion one.
Never knew home voltage so easily fluctuates by +- 10V while Freq is only by 0.1
Software is good.

[UNKOWN_SOURCE]

Well explained.. 👍 Thanks for this video. 🙏😊

[alanalain]

Thank you for the video, but... No mention of linked software to shut down computer gracefully when UPS will run out of juice if longer thatn expected power outage, and thus act same as a regular power outage with what is plugged in ? How come ? Thank you fpr any enlightment if you have the time...

[hichamitani]

Thank you for the great info
What is the best model for wifi router

[pauleden]

I bought one of their UPS's and just over a year later one of the batteries faulted and bulged out. I contacted PB Tech here in NZ where I bought the UPS, who contacted their supplier. The upshot is they wouldn't replace the faulty battery because it was out of warranty by a couple of months. Poor product and poor service.

[calijguyman]

I've been trying for 4 weeks to have someone acknowledge a parts quote request for our UPS that failed. If someone at Eaton reads this, can you please reply with an email address of someone who will actually get back to me? Your website directed me to another person, and their email address listed on the site is bad, got an undeliverable email response from your server. I NEED TO ORDER THESE PARTS! MY BOSSES KEEP ASKING! THIS IS HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!