Power protection leader VYCON recently announced the introduction of its new Hybrid VDC XEB flywheel system. The VDC XEB will be an environmentally friendly energy storage system which synergizes flywheel technology with batteries in one patent pending integrated system.
In a release Dann McKeraghan, sales and marketing vice president for VYCON said, “The rapid worldwide adoption and integration of our award-winning VDC flywheel family by our customers and UPS partners have been significant.”
According to the company – which designs and manufactures environmentally friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems – this combination of batteries provides users with greater backup time. They will benefit from the reliability and green aspects of the flywheel system and get extra runtime from the batteries.
The VDC XEB will serve as a protection against power disturbances as it saves batteries for prolonged power outages. As it absorbs power glitches, the VDC XEB prolongs battery life by handling over 98 percent of the discharges, explained officials.
VYCON’s Hybrid VDC XEB has been designed to offer 300 kilowatts (kW) of power and hence can be used to protect power dependent applications like data centers, healthcare facilities, industrial control systems and other operations needing several minutes of backup power.
In case the power outage lasts longer, the VDC XEB will transfer to onsite generators. The VDC XEB offers extended runtime and helps users as they can benefit from applications including those with automatic transfer switch (ATS) time delays and/or synchronization time requirements for multiple generators.
In case users require VDC XEB of higher power, up to four VDC XEB systems can be paralleled to ensure longer autonomy and/or redundancy, added officials.
“For customers, the flywheel will continue to be the first line of support with the battery providing the added runtime when called upon. The Hybrid VDC XEB reduces the number of outages and cycles the battery has to support by 98 percent, thereby offering extended battery life. Now with the addition of VDC XEB, our customers can have the same highly reliable backup power from our clean energy storage VDC flywheel systems with additional runtime from the integrated battery. This is a win-win for our customers and UPS partners alike,” added McKeraghan.
Company sources added that VYCON’s flywheel systems encompass several advanced features that help in self-diagnostics including the batteries, log files, adjustable voltage settings, RS-232/485 interface, alarm status contacts, soft-start pre-charge from the DC bus and push-button shutdown.
Cloud, managed services and colocation provider EasyStreet Online Services recently selected clean backup power from VYCON to protect its state-of-the-art data center.
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