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UPS Autonomy

11/09/2025 11:02 PM

The 2x100% UPS system shall be designed to provide power rated to supply 100% of the full load for 2 hours full continuous to consumers of safety critical systems.

It means that it would have 2x100% battery systems too. Does it mean the total autonomy is 4 hours as we have 2x100% battery systems designed for the full load of 2 hours?

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Re: UPS Autonomy

11/10/2025 4:40 AM

No, this will give two hours and five minutes of 100% if UPS #1 experiences catastrophic failure and poops out after 5 minutes. A variation of ‘belt and suspenders’, this is ‘two belts’ redundancy.

If specifier wanted four hours of 100%, it would have been specified as such.

Yes, two independent battery arrays, each 100%, required.

Note, if so designed and installed, the UPS system will provide 100% load for four hours (if no failures occur); this four hours meets the specified two hour minimum.

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11/11/2025 2:59 AM

Say under normal situation, if each UPS system take only 50% of load, don't the autonomy becomes higher?

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11/11/2025 5:35 AM

I would presume ‘Normal’ operating condition to be mains supply energized, UPS and battery arrays to be at idle.

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11/11/2025 10:30 AM

Expanding on my comment #4.

Note well, my dear friend Anonymous Poster#1, that a presumption is made regarding your comment #2. That is to say a slice of information, known to you, did not make the trip from your head through your fingers to the keyboard and eventually to the members of the forum… this leads to assumptions, presumptions, and guesses.

Communication is more than just the belief that it has taken place.

Incomplete communication is the root problem here. If the specifier (a presumption) cited in your original post had succeeded in squirting out of his fingers and onto a keyboard all of the needs and desires regarding this UPS power supply that are clear to him, in his own mind… passing this clarity to you… Well, we would not be here now, would we?

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11/11/2025 4:14 AM

Way I read the post is you have a
System demand for 100% full power for a minimum 2 hours

So its obvious that one UPS System can only meet 1 hour demand at full power so to meet the original 2 hour demand you need two UPS systems.

Otherwise you would only need 1 x 100% UPS system instead of 2.
You only have 2 hours in total, not 4 !

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11/11/2025 7:59 AM

The UPS system as designed is continuously operating at 100% since the UPS is on-line at all times.. It may possibly continue to operate at 100% load for two hours or more depending on the conditions of the connected batteries after /when commercial power is lost or interrupted..

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