Transformer-based UPS systems have several advantages over transformer-less UPS systems, including providing robust isolation that protects connected loads from interference on the main power supply. This isolation is important in areas with unreliable power quality or where electrical standards require galvanic isolation. Transformer-based UPS systems also tend to be more reliable and have higher mean time before failure than comparable transformer-less systems.
Transformer-based UPS systems have several advantages over transformer-less UPS systems, including providing robust isolation that protects connected loads from interference on the main power supply. This isolation is important in areas with unreliable power quality or where electrical standards require galvanic isolation. Transformer-based UPS systems also tend to be more reliable and have higher mean time before failure than comparable transformer-less systems.
Transformer-based UPS systems have several advantages over transformer-less UPS systems, including providing robust isolation that protects connected loads from interference on the main power supply. This isolation is important in areas with unreliable power quality or where electrical standards require galvanic isolation. Transformer-based UPS systems also tend to be more reliable and have higher mean time before failure than comparable transformer-less systems.
SUMMARY OF ADVANTAGES OF UPS WITH ISOLATION TRANSFORMER
1. ROBUST DESIGN: Transformer-less UPS devices are susceptible to
interference from spikes and transients The 'dirty' mains that this produces can be transferred through a UPS, and feeds the connected load. 2. ISOLATED PROTECTION: Transformer itself constitutes a physical barrier, a transformer-based online UPS completely isolates the load from the worst vagaries of the mains supply. 3. BEST SUITED TO BAD POWER MAPS: In circumstances where the load is likely to be affected by a very large variation in its power supply, a Transformer- based UPS provides a safer and more robust solution than transformer less technology - simply because its size and construction affords some inertia between the input and output waveforms, with no additional electronic filtering required. 4. SUPERIOR OUTPUT POWER: Transformer-based UPSs inherently contain galvanic isolation the power supply fed to the load is invariably superior to the mains supply itself. 5. MEET THE BEST ELECTRICAL STANDARDS: Latest electrical standards for medical installations (BS-EN60601 and 61558-2) actually require that critical devices be connected through a Galvanic Isolation transformer, rather than directly to the raw mains. 6. HIGHER MTBF: Major advantage of transformer-based UPS devices is their higher mean time before failure (MTBF). 7. MORE RELIABLE DESIGN: inherently more reliable by design than a corresponding electronic circuit board assembly. Transformer-less UPS are more prone to failure on sites where there is a high degree of mains borne pollution such as transients, spikes and electrical noise.