ATEN OL1000LV, User Manual

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Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview
A TEN Professional Online UPS is an advanced electrical apparatus that
provides emergency power to a load when the input power source or the mains
power fails. The basic technology of an online UPS is similar to that of a
standby or line-interactive UPS, however, the ATEN Professional Online UPS
provides a much greater current AC-to-DC battery-charger/rectifier where the
rectifier and inverter are designed to run continuously with improved cooling
systems.
Through years of working with computer hardware, the vast majority of
hardware failures can be attributed directly to the amount of stress hardware
components experience during shutdown and startup processes, especially if
power surges or blackouts are involved. Additionally, having sustained
changing weather conditions, the aging electrical grid may pose hazards hiding
behind walls. Your equipment is under constant attack from power problems.
Even a brief loss of power, sags or a momentary surge can ruin your equipment
and destroy irreplaceable data.
Desktop computers don’t have batteries built-in like laptops do. If you were
working on a desktop computer and encountered with a power outage, the
system would come to an immediate halt. Not only would you lose your work,
but the process imposes unnecessary stress to your machine. By using an UPS,
even when a power loss occurs, the batteries of the UPS keep the power steady
and unchanged.
The ATEN Professional Online UPS adjusts incoming AC power, provides
battery backup to pass through most outages and saves open files
automatically. When power is restored, the UPS begins recharging its batteries.
The Online UPS unit continuously filters the wall power through the battery
system. Since the attached electronics run completely off the battery (that are
always topped off by the external power supply), there is never a single
millisecond of power interruption when there are power losses or voltage
regulation issues. The Online UPS unit acts as an effective electric firewall
between your devices and the outside world by stabilizing all the electricity
your devices are ever exposed to.