Re: Anyone uses UPS units to protect your confocal/2-P systems?

Posted by Benjamin Smith on
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We use the following UPS setup to backup our 2-P workstations:
UPS:
https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/smart-app-sinewave/pr2200lcdrtxl2u/

Battery extension:
https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/extended-battery-modules/bp48v75art2u/

With this setup we can run the workstation for about 15 minutes with the
laser on (about 4 minutes without the battery extension), to give
enough time to safely save an experiment and shut everything down.  Once
the laser is on standby, the UPS can run everything else for hours.  As
others have said, the two major considerations are that you have enough VA
(2500 per high current laser system should be sufficient), and that the
output is a true sine wave, not an approximated one (approximated sine
waves can put unnecessary stress on power supplies for sensitive
equipment).

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 8:13 AM MICROSCOPIA IBIS <[hidden email]>
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> We have 2 units of 3000 VA (
> https://www.riello-ups.es/products/1-sai/44-sentinel-pro) for all
> components of our Leica SP2 AOBS, and only one unit for Nikon A1R+ to
> ptotect Argon laser and PC (in order to can save the current data).
> All conventional microscope PC's have installed WinOFF programme to switch
> them off if 30' nobody is using them.
> Safely regards,
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> de Douglas Richardson <[hidden email]>
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> Asunto: Re: Anyone uses UPS units to protect your confocal/2-P systems?
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> We have all microscopes and processing computers on UPS for power
> conditioning and emergency backup.
>
> For 120V systems: GE VH 2KVA Tower UPS
> <https://www.geupssystems.com/ge-vh-series-ups> ~$1,000.00 USD
> For 209V systems: GE LP-11U UPS
> <https://www.geupssystems.com/lp-11u-series-ups> ~$6,000.00 USD
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> -Doug
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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:08 AM Colin Haig <
> [hidden email]> wrote:
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> > Hi Mario,
> > We use APC Back UPS Pro sinewave units for a lot of sensitive equipment
> > including CCD and CMOS cameras, test equipment, and other science-related
> > instruments.
> > They have an excellent track record and reliability.
> > Eg BR1500VA and other models.
> > https://www.apc.com
> > Good luck.
> > Colin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Confocal Microscopy List <[hidden email]> On
> > Behalf Of Mario Methot
> > Sent: February 22, 2021 8:50 AM
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> > Subject: Anyone uses UPS units to protect your confocal/2-P systems?
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are unfortunately facing many unplanned (random) electricity
> > outages/voltage variations in our Institute (it's a very old building)
> and
> > our systems (and particularly lasers) don't like it too much... I was
> > wondering if some of you are using UPS units to protect your confocal/2-P
> > systems? If so what type of UPS are you using? All the info you could
> > provide would be most welcome, thanks in advance.
> >
> > Mario
> >
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