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Re: UPS and generator interaction?

  • From: Patrick Muldoon
  • Date: Mon Mar 29 13:40:21 2004 
On Monday 29 March 2004 01:26 pm, Brian (nanog-list) wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to get a UPS to trigger a generator to start, and
> to switch over to the generator power automatically or does this type of
> thing just not exist?

I think you are looking at it wrong,  you need an Automatic Transfer Switch.  
It connects to both commercial power and your generator, and provides a feed 
into your panels.    Your UPS's sit in front of the ATS, and provide clean 
power.  If/When you loose commercial power, the ATS will detect this and 
power on the generator, after a configurable amount of time it will switch to 
generator power, until commercial power comes back and is stable for X amount 
of time. 

Hope that helps, 

-Patrick 

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