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Whether your operation needs a single UPS system or multiple megawatts, Active Power has a solution that fits your needs. CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems deliver highly efficient and reliable backup power. Active Power systems are economically green, delivering environmentally friendly solutions to your economic advantage.
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CleanSource UPS®
Whether your operation needs a single UPS system or multiple megawatts, Active Power has a solution that fits your needs. CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems deliver highly efficient and reliable backup power. Active Power systems are economically green, delivering environmentally friendly solutions to your economic advantage.
Most Energy Efficient UPS
Efficient topology combined with patented flywheel technology means CleanSource UPS is up to 98% energy efficient. That's 75% fewer losses than leading competitors.
Compact Footprint
Active Power systems protect up to twice the power in the same space. Because the flywheel takes up less than half the footprint of a conventional battery-based system, CleanSource® UPS makes additional room for revenue-generating equipment in your data center.
Field Proven
CleanSource UPS is proven to be seven times less likely to fail than traditional UPS with batteries. And with thousands of flywheels operating more than 100 million hours in some of the world's harshest conditions, Active Power systems are proven to perform where it matters most – where you are.
Fault Tolerant UPS
Our unique UPS architecture enables a rugged and highly fault tolerant system that stands up to the toughest load and utility grid conditions.
Environmentally Friendly
Because it wastes less energy, CleanSource® UPS generates up to 75% less carbon emissions than competing technologies.
Economically Sound
Over a 20-year product life, CleanSource® UPS delivers up to 60% TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) savings to your business by reducing power consumption costs – proving that our product can help your bottom line and the environment.
System Options
The right fit for the right job.
Active Power offers multiple CleanSource UPS systems to best meet the needs of your data center. Systems are available in both non-expandable single module (SMS) and expandable multi-module (MMS) designs to allow choices in cost, flexibility, and size.
System Operation
The perfect sine wave.
CleanSource UPS uses a battery-free power module as the basic building block. Each module is rated at 300 kVA for 480V systems and 250 kVA for 400V systems. One or more of these modules are combined with an automatic bypass, grounding transformer and various options such as static switch bypass and maintenance bypass to make a complete UPS system.
Power Quality
CleanSource UPS provides clean, reliable power to your data center, protecting operations against all types of disturbances.
CleanSource UPS samples the electrical input 333 times every cycle or once every 50 micro-seconds and eliminates every transient using its static switch, line inductance, line capacitance, active filtering, power converters and flywheel energy storage.
The system senses voltage deviation from nominal and immediately corrects back to the prevailing nominal. Upon a complete loss of input power or a major deviation in input voltage or frequency, the UPS will disconnect from the utility source and flywheel energy will be used to support the load at nominal voltage until the backup diesel generator comes online.
Flywheel 101
What makes CleanSource UPS systems so special? The answer is Active Power's patented integrated flywheel UPS technology.
Flywheel systems store kinetic energy - energy produced by motion - by constantly spinning a compact rotor in a low-friction environment. When short-term backup power is required because utility power fluctuates or is lost, the inertia allows the rotor to continue spinning and the resulting kinetic energy is converted to electricity.
- 4.4" high; 25.5" in diameter; 600 lbs
- Flywheel constantly spins (~ 7,700 rpm) in a vacuum
- Each flywheel provides 250kW for ~15 seconds
Display & Monitoring
Stay in control.
Active Power provides a variety of system visibility and management tools to improve your awareness of power-related events and ultimately increase your power system reliability.
Operator Interface
Active Power CleanSource UPS systems feature a state-of-the-art operator interface to provide users with maximum visibility to system status, performance, events and maintenance requirements. The brilliant 10" LCD display and intuitive touch-screen control make it easy to view any level of detail in one of 10 languages.
Active Power CSView Monitoring & Control Software
Active Power's proprietary CleanSource ViewTM (CSView) monitoring and control software enables real-time system visibility from virtually anywhere. By utilizing common data and connectivity with our CleanSource View (CSView) monitoring and control software and data integration options to your Building Management System (BMS), we can offer you the degree of system visibility and service that you need to manage your critical power infrastructure.
- Enables constant visibility of your critical power infrastructure via a unique, user-friendly software tool from virtually anywhere
- Provides real-time telemetry in a variety of intuitive formats via continuous monitoring and evaluation of your Active Power systems
- Accessible on site or from anywhere in the world
- Wireless phone, PDA, Email notification
- Connectivity options:
- Serial Connection
- Modem Connection
- Ethernet Connection
- Data integration options:
- MODBUS
- SNMP
Maintenance & Support
Pure peace of mind.
Lifetime Warranty
Active Power is so confident in the reliability of our systems that we cover them with the industry's only Lifetime Warranty. We'll keep your system under warranty with no-cost repair labor and parts for as long as the system is in service, provided all preventive and recommended maintenance is performed on your machine by a certified Active Power technician. Choose one of our three low cost maintenance plan options for the best value on maintenance for your system.
Certain restrictions and requirements apply.
Lifetime warranty not available in all regions.PowerService Maintenance
Pure peace of mind comes with our PowerService programs. You can select the program tailored to best meet your needs and be assured that everything will be taken care of by a qualified, certified Active Power technical support engineer. Active Power offers three flexible service plans designed to meet individual customer needs. Additional preventative maintenance and bearing changes may be added a la carte to any plan.
Service and Maintenance Requirements
CleanSource UPS has been designed with ease of maintenance in mind. It requires only simple and non-invasive annual maintenance and a bearing change every third year – there's no need for quarterly inspections or a complete replacement every 3 to 5 years that typical battery-based systems require.
All recommended maintenance is performed by a factory-certified service engineer in the field. In the case of our multi-module systems (G, Z, and iC series), we can perform maintenance on one flywheel while the other flywheels are online and protecting the load.
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