
16 MNS-Up Service Manual
The MNS-Up is used to protect sensiwtive equipment and prevent
loss of valuable electronic information, mini-mize equipment
downtime, and minimize the adverse effect on production
equipment due to unexpected power problems.
The MNS-Up system continually monitors incoming electrical
power and removes the surges, spikes, sags, and other
irregularities that are inherent in commercial utility power. Working
with a building‘s electrical system, the MNS-Up system supplies
clean, consistent power that sensitive electronic equipment
requires for reliable operation. During longer blackouts and other
power interruptions, batteries provide emergency power to safe-
guard operation.
Hot Swappable Modules
The unique hot swappable feature of the modules provides the
ability to insert and extract the electron-ic/power modules from
a larger assembly while it is powered (hot). The hot swappable
design allows live powered modules to be attached to and
removed from a powered set without causing disturbance to the
operation of the load and without need to go to bypass.
Flexible Battery Management (FBM)
Flexible battery management (FBM) has been designed in all
MNS-Up products, with the goal to avoid the dete-rioration of
battery age. The FBM – Key Features protect the battery from
negative environmental impacts (high temperature and false
manipulations) and avoid deterioration of battery life through
advanced man-agement of battery charging and preventive failure
diagnostics. The implemented features result in benefits not only
for the end user, but also to the environment. The battery user is
required to replace batteries less often.
DPA Technology - Decentralized Parallel Architecture
The MNS-Up product features DPA paralleling technology that
provides N+X redundancy without introducing a single-point-
of-failure. Products using the DPA technology are completely
autonomous by means of individual power units, bypasses, CPUs,
control panels and separate battery configuration for each single
module.
DPA technology is more reliable than traditional paralleling
techniques. A parallel MNS-Up system means the linking together
of two or more MNS-Up units in parallel, so that in the unlikely
event that one fails, the other can automatically take up the load.
Traditionally, a parallel redundancy configuration is achieved by
having a random or fixed master-slave relationship among the
MNS-Up units. This master logic gives out individual commands
to all the slave units. Unfortunately, this can lead to a single-
point-of-failure for the whole system, because if the master logic
or communication to slaves fails, it causes trouble for the whole
MNS-Up system.
DPA technology was developed as a multi-master logic concept,
with separated independent regulation and logic buses to allow
parallel capacity system and to maintain the highest system
availability. An industry lead-ing paralleling technology in its own
right, DPA technology enables setup of a parallel redundant
system, providing 100% conditioned power at all times. Its unique
decentralized design eliminates the system level single-point-
of-failure inherent in traditional parallel UPS, and exponentially
increases the reliability of the overall system.
DPA technology allows up to 30 MNS-Up modules to cover the
same load in parallel and redundant configura-tion. No vulnerable
master logic is needed in this design. It provides automatic load
sharing and module level redundancy with nothing other than the
power connecting to the Conceptpower DPATM 100kW modules.
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