New 80 Plus Platinum Certification

Author: Cássio Lima Date: December 9, 2009 - 3:41 PM PST Category: Power More Info: http://www.80plus.org/documents/80PLUS_PLC-DSC.pdf Ecos Consulting, the company behind 80 Plus certification, has just released a new certification category, Platinum. Now five certifications are available: Standard, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Platinum. At this moment the 80 Plus Platinum is targeted only to redundant power supplies for datacenters, which can only work at 230 V. This new certification requires a minimum power factor (PF) of 0.95 (0.90 for the others certifications). The differences between the five 80 Plus certification are summarized on the table below.   20% Load (Light) 50% Load (Typical) 100% Load (Full) 80 Plus Standard 80% 80% 80% 80 Plus Bronze 82% 85% 82% 80 Plus Silver 85% 88% 85% 80 Plus Gold 87% 90% 87% 80 Plus Platinum 90% 95% 91% To learn more about 80 Plus certification please click here. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark Article | Comments (0)

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