We're proud to announce that our new UPS is installed and online. As I've said before it is an MGE EPS 7000 unit rated for 300-500 kVA. Our electrical contractors VECA Electric completed their job yesterday morning and a representative from MGE spent the afternoon yesterday performing the unit's turn-up. Everything went very well.

We captured the installation process in a time lapse movie:

As you can see it is a lot of work, over several days. Our guys know what they are doing though and the turn-up went well.

This is a premium bit of equipment with some very nice features. The most important of which is the capability to scale upwards in capacity as we grow. It also has a nice touch-screen LCD panel on the front that provides us with a lot of detail about what is going on inside:

Above: The user interface of our new UPS. The bottom image is a composite of three sample status screens.

We also purchased a pair of battery cabinets for the new UPS. Combined they provide 14 minutes of battery time at full load. Mind you our backup generator automatically starts up in 7-to-10 seconds if the grid power fails, but having that extra buffer is a good thing.

Above: The battery cabinets. The bottom image shows some of the batteries themselves through the open doors.

Now we turn our attention to the work in Datacenter Three. Stay tuned for more exciting news!

--Chuck Goolsbee
V.P. Technical Operations
digital.forest, Inc.