Parallel Redundancy

Parallel-redundant UPS architectures place two or more identical units side by side, sharing the load. In a 1+1 configuration both units carry half the load and either can take the full load if the other fails — a single-fault-tolerant design. N+1 generalises the concept to N working units plus one spare. The Sentinel Dual SDU page explicitly cites a 99.999% uptime target as the motivator. Parallel architecture also enables capacity expansion by adding modules without replacing the original UPS.

Implemented by

  • Sentinel Dual SDU — 1+1 dual-parallel-redundant or N+1 configurations
  • Sentryum — parallelable across all 1:1, 3:1, and 3:3 variants

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