Distributed UPS?

Status
Not open for further replies.
S

Sleken

Member
Location
Oklahoma
I'm preparing to install several receptacles in a room for many televisions. The owner has asked me to investigate the possibility of providing UPS protection to the circuits so that they don't have to restart the televisions after a power interruption. The building has a generator and the televisions are not a heavy load, so I don't need much more than a standard desktop computer UPS.

Implementing this on a circuit with several receptacles is the hard part. I'm not aware of any UPS of this size that are made to be hard wired. The only remote possibility I can come up with is providing a receptacle for the UPS and then a cord from a box to transition to my wiring method for the receptacles. I'm not a big fan of this idea.

Does anyone know of a small UPS made to be hard wired? Or a better idea than mine?

Thanks in advance.
 
FWIW, consider using a different color receptacle and/or faceplate to indicate ones connected to UPS. Helps avoid people plugging ordinary loads in and popping the UPS breaker.
 
Last edited:
Sleken said:
I'm preparing to install several receptacles in a room for many televisions. The owner has asked me to investigate the possibility of providing UPS protection to the circuits so that they don't have to restart the televisions after a power interruption. The building has a generator and the televisions are not a heavy load, so I don't need much more than a standard desktop computer UPS.

Implementing this on a circuit with several receptacles is the hard part. I'm not aware of any UPS of this size that are made to be hard wired. The only remote possibility I can come up with is providing a receptacle for the UPS and then a cord from a box to transition to my wiring method for the receptacles. I'm not a big fan of this idea.

Does anyone know of a small UPS made to be hard wired? Or a better idea than mine?

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

APC makes a kit for their lager (2200/3000) tower models. See here.

Found this after I posted.
 
jumper said:
Why? Quick, fairly cheap and easy.
Click to expand...

While I wouldn't be bothered by it, some people might not like a cord going into a box in that way.

FWIW, consider using a different color receptacle and/or faceplate to indicate ones connected to UPS. Helps avoid people plugging ordinary loads in and popping the UPS breaker.
Click to expand...

I was definitely going to label them but a strange color faceplate should get attention.


gadfly56 post
Click to expand...

Thank you very much for the links.
 
You can buy male AC flange connectors, a standard Hubble product. Must mount on a 4in blank and use a deep 4in box. Then wire the system together with 12ga wiring using what ever code allows, EMT, MC, possibly even Romex.

Now I'm not sure such a system would meet code commercially but just ask your AHJ.

As for colored receptacles, just make the whole system IG. I have found office people are generally timid about plugging into orange outlets thinking that are something special - which they are.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top