September 8, 2012

Another Frankenstein..... ThePowerTower3000

I am always surprised that so many businesses refuse to tweek or modify their products or services to meet the needs of the customer.  

Just this month I got requests for a) frequency converter in Jamaica, b) emergency power station for a lab, c) equipment protector for photolab exporter, and d) a UPS to power the brains of a CNC machine.
Nearly always, I come with something.  Sometimes its too much money, other times I figure a work around using their parts.... but still other times I create something crazy.

This time its the Power Tower 3000.
While it sounds like some bad 80s sci-fi gadget its actually a pretty cool device.   What the customer wanted was a) a UPS to power some lighting circuits, b) would work off a generator, and c)offer alot of runtime.

Thats what this baby can do.  It starts with a Matrix UPS which is a tranformer-centric UPS which can output 4 wire 120/240 power.   It then has a 48VDC bus so sets of four car sized batteries can be added to create lots of runtime.   Finally it has a din rail type subpanel which allows for separate lighting circuits to be hardwired into it.

We built something similar last time... but this looks like an affordable solution for my customer.  Whether he pulls the Buy switch and brings this creation to life is still unknown.   Stay tuned.