Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Harmonics and Quality of Power, 2000. Proceedings. Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6499-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICHQP.2000.897041
