The Power Behind Your Mining Farm—Why Professional Crypto Miners Trust PSS Distributors

When you’re managing a large-scale crypto mining operation, downtime isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a threat to your entire business. To keep your mining farm running at peak efficiency, you need more than just a basic power setup. A reliable, scalable, and robust UPS system is critical to ensuring uninterrupted operations.

The Risks of Power Interruptions in Mining Farms 

A single power outage can cascade into costly problems:

  • Lost Profits: Downtime equals missed mining opportunities and a hit to your bottom line.
  • Equipment Damage: Sudden shutdowns can harm your high-performance ASIC miners and GPUs.
  • Data Corruption: Unstable power can compromise your mining software or transaction logs.

Why Professional Setups Require Advanced UPS Solutions  

For large-scale mining farms, basic power protection just doesn’t cut it. Advanced UPS systems provide the high-level reliability and flexibility these setups demand:

  • N+1 Redundancy: Ensures uninterrupted power, even during maintenance or if one UPS unit fails.
  • 24/7 Technical Support: Our experts are always on hand to resolve issues and keep your operation online.
  • Expandable Runtime: Add external battery modules to increase backup duration, ensuring power continuity during extended outages.
  • Network Management Options: Manage and monitor your UPS remotely with SNMP or relay cards, allowing seamless integration with your server room infrastructure.
  • Tailored Solutions: Customized to meet the power requirements of your mining farm, from power distribution to ventilation.

Scalable Solutions for Every Mining Farm 

Our UPS systems are designed with scalability in mind. Whether you’re running dozens or hundreds of mining rigs, we can provide:

  • High-Capacity UPS Systems: Designed to handle the demands of industrial-grade mining equipment.
  • Efficient PDUs: Ensure reliable power distribution across all racks and devices.
  • Ventilation Support: Optimize cooling and airflow to maintain ideal operating conditions for your hardware.

Don’t Let Power Problems Derail Your Mining Farm

In the fast-paced world of crypto mining, even a brief power interruption can mean significant losses. Protect your investment with a UPS system that offers unmatched reliability, scalability, and support—because your business deserves nothing less.

Let’s Design Your Custom Solution

Your mining farm is unique, and so are its power requirements. Talk to our team about building a tailored UPS solution that meets your needs and ensures you’re always online.

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Protect Your Mining Setup and Your Profits – Why Every Home Crypto Miner Needs a UPS  

You’ve spent hours perfecting your home crypto mining rig. Carefully choosing your hardware, tweaking settings, monitoring performance—it’s your pride and joy. But running a professional crypto mining operation isn’t just a hobby—it’s a business. And in business, uptime equals profit. To maximize efficiency and protect your investment, having the right power backup strategy isn’t optional; it’s essential.

What Happens When the Power Goes Out?

Imagine this: a sudden power outage strikes. Your rig shuts down. Not only does mining stop, but your hardware is also exposed to the risk of damage from surges or unstable power when it comes back online. Worse still, interrupted power can corrupt your data and disrupt your earnings.

What’s at Stake?

Every second your mining rig is offline equals lost opportunities. Depending on your rig’s hash rate and the cryptocurrency you’re mining, even a brief downtime could cost you hundreds—or even thousands—of dollars in lost earnings over time.

Enter the Hero: An Online UPS 

An online Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is your ultimate safeguard. Here’s why:

  • Instant Backup Power: Keeps your rig running smoothly during outages.
  • Surge Protection: Shields your expensive GPUs, ASICs, and motherboards from power spikes.
  • Clean Power Delivery: Ensures consistent voltage, extending your equipment’s lifespan.

With an online UPS, you’re not just protecting your setup—you’re protecting your profits.

Don’t Let Power Problems Steal Your Profits

Think of a UPS as an investment in your mining operation. It’s the safety net that protects your equipment, secures your data, and keeps your wallet growing—even when the lights go out.

 

 

Power Out? How to Keep Your Garage Door or Boom Gate Open Automatically

Power outages can happen when you least expect them, leaving you stranded and frustrated when trying to get in or out of carparks, boom gates, or garages. Whether you’re managing a residential carpark, a commercial property, or an industrial site, ensuring smooth vehicle access during a power failure is critical.

The solution? The RollUPS range of UPS battery backup systems.

Why Keeping Garage Doors Open Matters During Power Failures 

During an outage, the ideal solution is to use a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to power garage doors or boom gates, enabling them to open and close as usual. The RollUPS range is more than capable of handling this, providing reliable power to ensure doors or gates operate when needed.

Why Choose RollUPS for Garage Doors and Boom Gates?

The RollUPS range is designed to handle critical motor loads like garage doors and boom gates. Key benefits include:

  1. Single-phase and 3-phase Motors: Suitable for a variety of setups.
  2. Reliable Power: Keeps garage doors or boom gates operational during power failures.
  3. Battery Optimisation: Features like sleep mode (on some models) and the optional relay card help conserve battery life by keeping doors open in busy environments.
  4. Flexibility: Extend battery time with additional battery modules, or add accessories such as an SNMP or relay card for enhanced control.
  5. Built for Inductive Loads: Perfect for heavy-duty, high-demand motor-driven applications.

Optional Relay Card for Enhanced Automation

For customers who want even greater efficiency, the relay card is an optional accessory for the RollUPS range. It’s a smart way to conserve battery life in high-traffic situations by automatically opening the garage door or boom gate when the power goes out.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Power Outage Detection: The UPS detects a power failure instantly.
  2. Signal Transmission: The relay card sends a signal to the garage door or boom gate, triggering it to open automatically.
  3. Staying Open: The system keeps the door or gate open until power is restored, conserving the UPS battery.

This optional upgrade is especially useful for busy carparks.

A Case Study: Keeping Carparks Running with RollUPS

One of our commercial carpark customers recently implemented a RollUPS UPS system with an optional relay card. Here’s what happened:

  • The Problem: During a storm-induced blackout, vehicles were unable to exit because the garage door couldn’t open. Relying on a manual override was slow, causing frustration for tenants and staff.
  • The Solution: They installed the RollUPS system and added the optional relay card to automatically open the garage door during power failures.

The Outcome: The garage door opened instantly when power was lost and stayed open until power was restored. Vehicles exited without issue, and the UPS battery lasted far longer, avoiding unnecessary strain.

A Solution You Can Rely On

Whether you need to power garage doors, boom gates, or other critical systems, the RollUPS range offers a dependable solution. And with the optional relay card, you can take efficiency one step further.

Never get stuck again during a power failure. Explore the RollUPS range today and keep your operations moving seamlessly.

Contact us today or explore the range here: RollUPS UPS Systems.

 

 

What is an Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS), and Where Do You Use It?

In today’s world, ensuring uninterrupted power is critical for businesses, industries, and even residential setups. This is where an Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) comes into play, offering a reliable solution for seamless power management.

What is an ATS? 

An Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) is a device designed to automatically switch the power source from a primary supply, like a UPS or mains power, to a backup source in case of a failure. This ensures continuous power delivery, protecting critical systems from downtime or data loss.

For example, when used with a UPS, the ATS monitors power from the UPS and automatically transfers to mains power if the UPS experiences a fault or loses input. This transition happens seamlessly, ensuring your equipment remains operational.

Key Features of ATS

  • Seamless Switching: Transfers power sources without manual intervention, minimizing downtime.
  • Safety and Reliability: Ensures protection for connected devices by eliminating power interruptions.
  • Versatility: Compatible with various setups, from small-scale operations to high-capacity installations.
  • Wall-Mounted or Rack-Mounted Options: Suitable for any setup requirements.
  • PDU and DB (Distribution Board) in One Product: Simplifies power management with a single solution.
  • Inbuilt RCD on Output Circuits and GPOs: Ensures safety and compliance with power regulations.

Where Can You Use an ATS?

  1. Data Centres: Ensure continuous power to servers and IT equipment.
  2. Industrial Applications: Maintain critical operations during maintenance or power failures.
  3. Residential Systems: Keep essential systems like medical equipment or home offices running.
  4. Retail and Commercial Spaces: Prevent disruptions to point-of-sale systems and lighting.
  5. Medical Facilities: Protect vital medical equipment, such as refrigerators for life-support systems, scanners, and CT machines, ensuring patient safety and compliance with healthcare standards.
  6. Generators: Automatically switch equipment (up to 40A) over to a compatible generator, ensuring continuous operation during power outages.

ATS Solutions from PSS Distributors

EMBP-PDU

The EMBP-PDU is a compact, ATS designed for UPS systems 1-3kVA, available in 10A or 15A. Ideal for smaller setups, it ensures uninterrupted power with its seamless transfer capabilities.

Key Features:

  • Wall-mounted or rack-mounted options
  • Integrated PDU and DB
  • Inbuilt RCD on output circuits and GPO

EMBP-DIS-40A-1

For larger applications, the EMBP-DIS-40A-1 offers a higher capacity, supporting up to 40A with single-phase input. This wall-mounted unit features a full wiring input and output distribution on a 40A RCD, 6 Australian Standard 10A GPOs, and up to 5 output circuits. Its combination of manual maintenance bypass and ATS functionality makes it perfect for critical power applications.

  • Supports up to 40A single-phase input
  • Integrated PDU and distribution board
  • Inbuilt RCD for output circuits and GPOs
  • Ideal for switching to compatible generators

 

For any other Bypass or ATS solutions please contact us.

 

 

The Difference Between IP55 and IP65

If you’ve ever purchased anything from controllers and electric instruments to power supplies and desktop electronics, you will have come across the item’s IP rating.

This is an internationally recognised rating that defines the item’s “ingress protection” against dust and liquids.

An item’s level of ingress protection is its resistance to things entering the equipment, or at least its outer casing.

At PSS, we are well-versed in IP ratings, as our products are manufactured to the most robust standards and protect vital systems in healthcare, mining, research and many more applications.

If this blog doesn’t answer all of your questions on IP ratings, get in touch and discuss your needs with our friendly team.

What Do the Numbers Mean?

While IP stands for ingress protection, the meaning of the two numbers that follow isn’t so obvious.

To give you a crash course on IP ratings, the first number represents the ingress protection to solid objects, while the second relates to water resistance.

The larger the number, the more resistant the item is to smaller and smaller items or moisture levels.

The International Electrotechnical Commission provides the official description of each rating, ensuring a global standard when it comes to ingress protection.

For solid foreign objects:

  • 0 indicates there is no protection;
  • 1 protects against objects larger than 50mm such as a hand (not a finger);
  • 2 protects against objects larger than 12.5mm such as a finger;
  • 3 protects against objects larger than 2.5mm;
  • 3 protects against objects larger than 1mm;
  • 5 indicates the object is dust protected;
  • 6 is absolutely dust-tight.

For water resistance:

  • 0 indicates no protection;
  • 1 indicates protection against vertically falling water drops (light rain);
  • 2 protects against vertically falling water drops when the enclosure is tilted up to 15°, or the water falls inwards at 15°.
  • 3 protects against spraying water;
  • 4 protects against splashing water;
  • 5 protects against water jets;
  • 6 protects against powerful water jets;
  • 7 protects against temporary immersion;
  • 8 protects against continuous immersion;
  • 9 protects against high-pressure temperatures and water jets.

For reference, the latest iPhone 14 has an IP rating of IP68, meaning it is absolutely dust-tight and protects against continuous immersion. Manufacturers will often declare the length of time that a user can expect the enclosure to last while immersed, as this can vary.

IP55 vs IP65

Using the above logic, the difference between IP55 and IP65 is in the ingress protection against solid foreign objects.

These ratings are relevant to the PSS range because products with these ratings are most applicable to our clients’ needs in mining, healthcare, research and the like.

IP55 rated items such as the Redback Racks 18RU 600 Depth Weatherproof Outdoor Racks are rated 5 for dust protection and 5 for protection against water jets.

IP65 rated items, however, have the same water resistance with the added bonus of absolute dust-tight protection.

If you’re looking for the best of both worlds in dust and water resistance, Redback Racks’ Weatherproof Enclosures are rated IP66 for the most hard-wearing workplaces that cannot afford to sustain damaged equipment.

Contact PSS to Learn More

Our electrical enclosures are a safe bet to protect your equipment from whatever your line of work throws at it.

Let us know what IP rating you require and we’ll match you with a product to suit your needs.

What’s an IP rating?

IP (or “Ingress Protection”) ratings are defined in international standards. They are used to define levels of sealing effectiveness of electrical enclosures against intrusion from foreign bodies (tools, dirt etc.) and moisture.”

 

ingress protection

IP Ratings

IP (or “Ingress Protection”) ratings are defined in international standard EN 60529 (British BS EN 60529:1992, European IEC 60509:1989). They are used to define levels of sealing effectiveness of electrical enclosures against intrusion from foreign bodies (tools, dirt etc.) and moisture.

First Digit  = Indicates Dust resistance, or intrusion protection i.e. the size of partial that can enter the enclosure – “1” – Being the lowest , having little or no protection and “7” being the highest, totally dust proof.

Second Digit = water or moisture protection i.e.  “1” Being the lowest , having little or no protection and “9” being the highest, protected against prolonged effects of immersion under pressure.

Our UPS App at your fingertips

Our UPS App at your fingertips

We live in an instant world – instant coffee, instant internet, instant shopping and now…

An instant UPS App from PSS Distributors to calculate the correct size UPS you need according to your requirements, and even the pricing. Did we mention it’s free?

To install, scan the QR code in the attached ad, follow the steps to calculate your requirements and then take the right steps towards securing your equipment by purchasing your PSS Distributors UPS and plugging it in.

Using Our UPS Calculator

Today I’ll be talking about our new “UPS calculator” on our website.

At last, a solution designed to make sizing UPS easy!!

A simple solution that offers you the right choice specific to your office or project needs.

User friendly operation i.e.:

  1. You can manually enter the number of devices or;
  2. Use the “+” and “-” icons to fine tune your entry
  3. Once you have selected your equipment, select the runtime requirement in minutes and/or hours.
  4. Once selected, simply press the submit button to see your results.
  5. a tower and/or rack option will be presented that best matches your criteria
  6. From the results screen you can enquire, see more about the product, or come back to the calculator to adjust your input data.

welcome to our UPS calculator.

It’s designed to be simple to use and efficient, both for our channel partners and their customers – in fact anyone who needs to use it!

Being able to “size” PSS UPS efficiently and correctly is a great asset when quoting in the field, no more endless hours searching internet for comparisons – it’s all at the click of a mouse with PSS!