Vertiv Liebert Trinergy Cube, 800 kW-1.6 MW (Americas)

Vertiv's hot-serviceable megawatt UPS built from 400 kW power cores and paralleled to 12.8 MW

Vertiv Liebert Trinergy Cube, 800 kW-1.6 MW (Americas) is one of 22 UPS systems tracked in the SecondWatt catalogue, each with specifications, lead times and indicative secondary-market pricing.

Vertiv Liebert Trinergy Cube dossier: 800 kW to 1.6 MW from 400 kW hot-serviceable cores, 12.8 MW in parallel, 99.2% ECO efficiency, and inspection guidance.

Liebert Trinergy Cube is Vertiv's largest UPS for the Americas, delivering 800 kW to 1.6 MW in a single unit built from hot-serviceable 400 kW power cores, with up to eight units in parallel for 12.8 MW. The catalogue SKU is the 400 kW core itself. Efficiency reaches up to 96.8% in double conversion, up to 99% in Dynamic Online and up to 99.2% in ECO, on a 480 VAC three-wire input and output with a 100 kA short-circuit withstand rating. The architecture is a three-level NPC2 rectifier and inverter, transformer-free, with distributed batteries, circular redundancy and redundant fans, and three-dimensional modularity that lets cores be added vertically, horizontally and orthogonally. A single 400 kW core measures 77.0 by 26.8 by 36.1 inches and weighs 1,300 lb. Vertiv's US page cites one million kW of power installed since 2015 and rates the unit to 55 degrees C. Regional naming needs care. Trinergy Cube is the Americas 480 V product and is absent from Vertiv's EMEA three-phase lineup, which lists Vertiv Trinergy at 1500 to 2000 kW on 400 V CE instead. Treat them as separate records. A Vertiv asset path referencing a 150 kW to 3.4 MW positioning indicates an earlier global range against the current North American 400 kW to 1.6 MW brochure, which is useful for dating field units.

Why it matters

Core-level hot service changes how a used unit should be assessed. A single core fault does not condemn the frame, so a secondary evaluation has to be done per core rather than per cabinet, counting cores, their hours and their fault history separately. That is the same discipline modular UPS demands, applied at 400 kW granularity instead of 50.

Who buys it

Hyperscale and large colocation operators in the Americas building megawatt UPS blocks, and integrators assembling multi-megawatt parallel systems where hot service at the core level matters more than cabinet-level redundancy. No secondary buyer profile exists yet, since no used Trinergy Cube has reached a public channel.

Role in the data center

Megawatt-class primary UPS for Americas hyperscale and colocation halls, built from 400 kW cores and paralleled to 12.8 MW with distributed batteries.

Key specifications

Technical summary

Range: 800 kW to 1.6 MW in a single unit, from hot-serviceable 400 kW power cores Parallel: up to 8 units for 12.8 MW; three-dimensional modularity Efficiency: up to 96.8% double conversion; up to 99% Dynamic Online; up to 99.2% ECO Input/output: 480 VAC three-phase, three-wire; 60 Hz plus or minus 5 in, plus or minus 0.1 out Input power factor: 0.99 or better; short-circuit withstand 100 kA Topology: transformer-free, three-level NPC2 rectifier and inverter, distributed batteries Footprint per 400 kW core: 77.0 x 26.8 x 36.1 in (1,956 x 680 x 916 mm) at 1,300 lb Battery: Vertiv HPL, lithium-ion, VRLA and VLA at 480 VDC nominal, 540 VDC float Operating temperature: 0-55 degrees C Standards: UL 1778 5th ed.; CSA 22.2 No. 107.3; IEC 62040-2; FCC Part 15 Class A; IBC 2015 seismic

Pricing and availability

Trend: up Lead time, new: 40-60 weeks (modular UPS above 2,000 kVA class benchmark). Warranty, used: 1-year typical from refurbishment dealers.

Lifecycle and maintenance

Modular UPS frames outlive their modules: cabinet, bus and static bypass run 15 years or more while the hot-swap power modules carry the fans and DC capacitors that wear. That moves the maintenance question from cabinet age to module hours and module count, since a 1,500 kW ABB DPA system holds 30 module-level fan and capacitor sets. Eaton's 93PM service life extension program replaces power modules, DC capacitors, static switch, fans and the communications board inside the existing shell in about 24 hours, resetting another 10 years. Ask whether that program has been run before pricing any 10-year-old modular frame.

Common failure points

• Power module population — A frame sold on nameplate ships with fewer modules than the rating implies
• Module fans and capacitors — Consumables sit inside each module, so wear scales with module count not cabinet count
• Battery strings — VRLA capacity fades below 80% of nameplate and takes the ride-through with it
• Missing filler plates — Open slots break the cooling path and signal careless handling
• Live Swap entitlement — A frame without the Live Swap label must be bypassed for any module work
• Controls obsolescence — Controller and display boards reach end of life ahead of the power train

Inspection checklist

Module count — count populated slots against the frame rating; Eaton lists a 4 kVA 9PXM power module at 4,377 USD Filler plates — Schneider's manual requires a module or filler plate in every slot on a 50 kW module bay Module consumables — fans and capacitors live inside each module; a 1,500 kW DPA system carries 30 such sets Live Swap label — verify the physical label; a Galaxy VS or VL without it must be bypassed, at 200 mm standoff Module part numbers — confirm interchange; Schneider GVPM50KD is 50 kW at 400/480 V and 25 kW at 208 V Battery age — sealed VRLA turns over at 3-5 years per Eaton lifecycle guidance; assume a full string past that Battery capacity — reject any string below 80% of nameplate capacity under IEEE 1188 practice Battery impedance — ohmic readings above 20% of the commissioning baseline condemn the cell DC bus capacitors — Eaton rates 7 years of continuous duty and up to 10 under favorable conditions Cooling fans — Vertiv field data gives 5-6 years or 40,000-50,000 hours of operation before replacement Static bypass — transfer to bypass and back under load 3 times; verify each module's own bypass path where fitted Parallel kit — verify the parallel hardware and unit count; these frames commonly parallel 4 to 8 ways Firmware — verify the controller revision and card slots; Eaton's 11-point guidance makes firmware access a condition Lifecycle stage — confirm OEM support status; Mitsubishi's 4-stage lifecycle table is the only dated public one Rigging — verify path and lift plan; an ABB DPA 250 S4 frame runs 345-667 kg once populated with modules

Procurement channels

New units through Vertiv and its channel, quote-only. Secondary supply, when it appears, will come from data center decommissions rather than dealer inventory, because units at this scale are heavily service-contracted.

Regional notes

Americas 480 V product. The EMEA equivalent is listed as Vertiv Trinergy at 1500-2000 kW on 400 V CE and should be tracked as a separate record; Vertiv EMEA has also flagged Trinergy Cube among pre-2024 legacy models, which is worth verifying before describing the EMEA variant as current.