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Old 06-22-2009, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by tom View Post
How do you guys normally handle the power outage. Our datacenter has ups as backup, but we need to manually kicked in when power goes down. Is it the regular design?
That seems quite a strange setup Tom - I would expect all critical computer equipment to be on the good side of the UPS. Generally I have it laid out like this. If you do have a problem with your UPS, you want to be able to bypass it, likewise, you want to be able to bypass your ATS if the very worst should happen.

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Generator         Main's Input
       |             |
       +------+------+
	      |
        Bypass Unit--+
	      |       |
             ATS     |
              |      |
        Bypass Unit--+
              |      |
             UPS     |
              +------+
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