Power Supplies Need Power Backplanes

A backplane is a number of connectors that are connected with each other in parallel combination. This type of connection makes a computer bus and is used as a backbone to form a computer system. Disk enclosures, disk arrays, and servers are found to use backplanes.

To provide flexibility in the interface, power supplies need power backplanes. For this reason, to make a redundant power supply there’s no need to modify any cost sensitive backplanes.

Required power supply can be acquired using a number of power backplanes. Either AC or DC power is supplied to the power planes with the help of proper connector. There are also ATX-style power connectors available to supply regulated power. They can provide large supply currents when needed in a variety of applications.