New 80 Plus Platinum Certification
By
Cássio Lima
on December 9, 2009 - 7:41 PM
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.
Originally at http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/news/New-80-Plus-Platinum-Certification/4405
