UPS Radiation
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My fiance randomly asked me if our UPS gives off a lot of radiation. I have an Eaton 5p rackmounted UPS. She uses a hairdryer so I have no idea what she is on about but it made me wonder how much information was online about it and I basically couldn't find anything concrete. I called Eaton and they had no real data on it other than the opinions of the employee. Anyone know much about it or can you point me in the right direction?
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I googled your title. first returned url: http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jmce/papers/ICRTEM/ME/Volume-4/IOSRME07.pdf
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WTF
Anything that uses electricity gives of an EMF. That is kind of how electricity works in the first place.
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@JaredBusch yeah but what are we talking here? The same amount as my computer power supply? More? By how much? How far away should we be from it? How do we calculate the drop off point where it becomes "safe"?
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@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:
@JaredBusch yeah but what are we talking here? The same amount as my computer power supply? More? By how much? How far away should we be from it?
The inverse square law is a thing you should look at. The amount of EMF coming off that UPS is probably negligible when you take every day exposure into account. I'd be more worried about the hearing damage the fans may cause (hint, I'm not worried about that).
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@coliver It seems so general though in terms of information these vendors have. I have a Symmetra LX UPS in my network closet. They put my desk in there but I sit somewhere else because there's no windows or human interaction. It just made me think if I were sitting in there with a 10U UPS a few feet from me...would that be cause for concern? Seems like it would be. There's never a discussion about it.
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One of these can't hurt..
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Maybe increase the lead levels in your blood so all the radiation can't penetrate your skin.
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Is the consensus that this is an insane question to ask and I shouldn't worry about it? I'm not exactly worried but I realized how little I know about it
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You should probably be more worried about UPS batteries exploding than radiation it gives off. And I've never witnessed UPS battery exploding or catching fire either.
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@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:
Is the consensus that this is an insane question to ask and I shouldn't worry about it? I'm not exactly worried but I realized how little I know about it
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@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:
Is the consensus that this is an insane question to ask and I shouldn't worry about it? I'm not exactly worried but I realized how little I know about it
Yes.
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Any for of heat loss is radiation... So unless we're talking the type that causes cancer what is the concern?.
Batteries release heat.
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@DustinB3403 said in UPS Radiation:
Any for of heat loss is radiation... So unless we're talking the type that causes cancer what is the concern?.
Well the particles emitting from radioactive material is a form of heat loss / decay
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@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:
@JaredBusch yeah but what are we talking here? The same amount as my computer power supply? More? By how much? How far away should we be from it? How do we calculate the drop off point where it becomes "safe"?
Yes, same as everything else in the house. The UPS is just a car battery attached to the wall. So it is going to give off way less radiation than things "doing stuff" in the house. The UPS will be around the lowest EMF creators in your house.
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@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:
Is the consensus that this is an insane question to ask and I shouldn't worry about it? I'm not exactly worried but I realized how little I know about it
Yes, 100%. If you have ANY concern about this, you can't live in a house that has AC in the walls, because that alone is giving off more! Everything in your life, from your cell phone to your TV to that hair dryer to the walls themselves are a bigger concern. The power lines by the road and in the ground are bigger issues. The UPS is the last thing you'd worry about, like literally. It's the same as the batteries in all of your other devices.
You'd have to move to a cave on an island to get away from the level of radiation from a UPS.
And all of that is before we deal with the question not of how much, but who cares? That kind of radiation is similar to extremely dim light. So imagine sitting in a dark room with a candle across the room at night. Then imagine being worried about the dangers of radiation from being in that amount of light. The UPS is way less than that.
