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Eaton Corporation

Eaton Corporation is a global diversified power management company with 2010 sales of $13.7 billion. The company is a leading provider of electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment;...

 BladeUPS is a modular three-phase UPS

Uninterruptible power supply

An uninterruptible power supply, also uninterruptible power source, UPS or battery/flywheel backup, is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source, typically mains power, fails...

 system consisting of individual 6U

Rack unit

A rack unit or U is a unit of measure used to describe the height of equipment intended for mounting in a 19-inch rack or a 23-inch rack...

 12 kW UPS units which can be paralleled together to create up to a 60 kW N+1

N+1 Redundancy

N+1 redundancy is a form of resilience that ensures system availability in the event of component failure.Components have at least one independent backup component . The level of resilience is referred to as active/passive or standby as backup components do not actively participate within the...

 redundant UPS. A unique feature of the BladeUPS is that the 6U cabinet houses both the UPS electronics and batteries; other modular systems house them separately. The high power density and 6U form factor of the BladeUPS are targeted at the growing power demands of IT servers and equipment, especially blade servers

Blade server

A blade server is a stripped down server computer with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy. Whereas a standard rack-mount server can function with a power cord and network cable, blade servers have many components removed to save space, minimize power...

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The BladeUPS does not fall into a defined category for UPS type as it is a hybrid of a line interactive and online architecture, which Eaton calls Double Conversion on Demand. During normal operation the BladeUPS operates as a line interactive UPS allowing it to be very energy efficient. When power conditions fluctuate outside preset standards, the unit automatically switches into online mode (aka double conversion). Recent software upgrades by Eaton have allowed BladeUPS owners to defeat this hybrid architecture and force the unit to operate entirely in online (double conversion) mode.

Software

BladeUPS ships with Eaton’s LanSafe software which allows for basic UPS monitoring and commands. The BladeUPS is also compatible with Eaton’s Power Xpert and FORESEER software which provide additional monitoring and functionality.

Battery Runtime

Up to four extended battery modules can be connected to each BladeUPS providing additional runtime.

Single Module		Runtime in Minutes
Load kW	Load %	Internal Battery	+1 EBM	+2 EBM	+3 EBM	+4 EBM
12	100	4.7	9.5	17	27	34
11	92	5.4	10.9	20	30	38
10	83	6.2	13	22	33	42
9	75	7.3	15	24	38	48
8	67	8.7	18	28	43	55
7	58	10.7	23	32	50	64
6	50	13.6	27	42	60	76
5	42	18.5	33	51	73	94
4	33	23	42	66	94	120
3	25	30	56	89	128	165
2	17	44	85	137	199	258

External links

• Eaton Corporation
• BladeUPS product page