Falcon SSG500VA-1 Owner's Operating Manual

OWNER’S

OPERATING

MANUAL

UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEM

FOR MODEL:

SSG500VA- 1

FALCON ELECTRIC INC.

5106 Azusa Canyon Road

Irwindale, California 91706

Tel. [phone] Fax. [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

www.falconups.com

2001 FalconElectric Inc. All rights reserved.
All other brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
The information and specifications stated in this document are subject to change without notice. 2001- 10-18
 Falcon, Falcon Electric and UPS Plus logos are registered trademarks of Falcon Electric Inc.

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INTRODUCTION

Congratulations! You have selected the
highest quality protection for your
computer today. This unit offers a quiet
and compact package with superior
performance you can count on. You now
own a member of the SSG family which is
a proud part of the very reliable and
versatile Falcon series of UPS products.

This Users Manual is provided with your
new SSG unit. It will enhance your
understanding of the product and its
functions. Read this handbook carefully in
the order it is presented prior to operating
your unit. This will save you time and effort
in your installation and application. The
illustrations will also familiarize you with
the SSGs operating modes and
indications. Always operate the unit within
the guidelines and specifications given to

IMPORTANT SAFETY

maximize the units efficiency and lifetime.
Also, your understanding of the product is
essential in providing you years of service
for your back -up power requirements.
Refer to the cross-reference table below to
understand which unit corresponds to your
particular model number.

CROSS REFERENCE TABLE

MODEL NUMBER OLD REFERENCE

SSG500VA -1 PC500-1

INSTRUCTIONS,

SAVE THESE

INSTRUCTIONS

This manual contains important sa fety
instructions that should be followed
during installation and maintenance of
the UPS and batteries.

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The SSG SERIES represents the

W/ ISOLATION

smallest and most compact units of the
Falcon (UPS) product line. In the
tradition of all Falcon products, it
maintains the highest reliability and the
most complete on-line, sinewave power
protection available. An on-line,
sinewave UPS is the only total solution
to virtually any power problem. It
effectively provides just what it says,
Uninterruptible Power. There is no
break, transient or glitch in source
transfer on a power outage because
THERE IS NO TRANSFER.

The SSG is engineered with the latest
MOSFET/PWM technology for high
efficiency and reliability.

Refer to the simplified block diagram,
Figure 1, for system description. The AC
source is rectified and provides energy
for the DC - DC Converter and a float
charge to a standby Battery. The DC
Converter then supplies the power to
operate the PWM DC/AC Inverter.
During a utility power-loss, the AC
rectification and battery charging
capabilities of the UPS become inactive.
The fully charged battery, however,

supplies the necessary power
requirement to maintain the remaining
system blocks.
The SSG on-line topology is unique to
other on-line systems in that it is
designed to meet the needs of non­linear loads. Your computer, with its
switching power supply, is considered a
nonlinear load which can be very
abusive to most power protection
equipment and could decrease its life­expectancy. The SSG is specially
devised to accept these loads and
protect them efficiently without any of
the output waveform degradation
common to other UPS.

If the unit inadvertently experiences an
extreme over temperature situation that
causes inverter malfunction, it will switch
over to a filtered emergency bypass line
to insure continuous power to the
computer load. If the unit is overloaded,
it will shutdown completely if the
overload is not corrected within 15
seconds.

The SSG500 offers complete isolation
input to output.

DC-DC

CONVERTER

SSG500 BLOCK DIAGRAM

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