Surge protection capabilities of uninterruptible power supplies

Author

Baran, Mesut E. ; Tocharoenchai, Warong ; Craven, Kim ; Reitfort, Dave

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

284

Abstract

This paper investigates the effectiveness of uninterruptible power supplies for providing protection against power surges to the load they serve-a group of interconnected personal computers (PCs). The surges simulated include the most common ones: surges due to lightning and capacitor switching, and fast transients due to operation of nearby end-use devices. Test results indicate that the protection depends very much on the type of the UPS

Keywords

capacitor switching; computer power supplies; lightning protection; surge protection; transients; uninterruptible power supplies; capacitor switching surges; fast transients surges; interconnected personal computers; lightning surges; nearby end-use devices operation; power surges protection; surge protection capabilities; uninterruptible power supplies; Capacitors; Computational modeling; Lightning; Microcomputers; Personal communication networks; Power supplies; Surge protection; Surges; Testing; Uninterruptible power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Harmonics and Quality of Power, 2000. Proceedings. Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6499-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICHQP.2000.897041

Filename

897041