Laura Ortiz, Product Manager – Commercial and Industrial UPS NAM, discusses the optimized design features and key industry applications for the Conceptpower DPA 500 480V UL UPS. ABB is making a concerted effort to expand our overall portfolio for our customers and partners in North America. Expanding the Conceptpower DPA 500 platform to support UL standards and voltages strategically positions ABB to provide our data center customers with a complete portfolio of power quality products.

Hans Pfitzer, VP of Product Management and Engineering NAM, discusses the value of ABB’s advanced modulation techniques for increased efficiency in the Conceptpower DPA 500 480V UL UPS. Availability is everything in a UPS, making ABB’s Conceptpower decentralized parallel architecture (DPA) design the preferred choice, ensuring power is always on when you need it. With class-leading efficiency of up to 96 percent, your power consumption and cooling effort are minimized. And, by adding expansion modules only when required, you only pay for the power you need.

Christopher Belcastro, R&D Engineering Manager NAM, discusses the building block approach of the Conceptpower DPA 500 480V UL UPS. ABB’s Conceptpower DPA 500’s “online-swap modularity” (OSM) capability, in which modules can be inserted and removed with the UPS running, simplify routine maintenance and eliminate service-related downtime. Not only does this feature improve availability, but it also reduces cost, since service engineers spend less time on-site and any risk of data or production loss are minimized. Modularity ensures reduced inventory levels of specialized spare parts. Additionally, this online-swap technology helps achieve “six nines” availability (99.9999 percent), highly desirable for data centers in pursuit of zero downtime.