Keep your data safe with UPS: IT systems, with their wealth of sensitive data, are under constant threat from unreliable power supplies. The dangers of strong electrical surges or power drops cannot be overestimated and the need for UPSs, surge suppressors and isolators has never been greater.(uninterruptible power supplies)

African Review of Business and Technology,  February, 2005  

Tags: information technology, power supply, United Parcel Service of America Inc.

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WHERE DO POWER-related problems come from? And what can be done to prevent them or minimise their impact? Firstly it's important to know the difference between surges, line noise, brownouts and blackouts, and then action can be taken.

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Surges are a voltage increase to electrical equipment, often for a fraction of a second. Unfortunately that fraction can be very destructive and a surge suppressor is essential. Surges arise because of the ever increasing demand for power. Power grids are overburdened and so switch between power sources, creating so-called ...

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