To ensure the integrity of any Uninterruptible Power Supply, Telecommunications 48V system or generator, the lead acid batteries must be checked and maintained.
Surprisingly what ever the cost of your Power Protection system, whether it is a stand alone UPS System or Standby Diesel Generators the most common single point of failure are the batteries.
High resistance, leakage or open circuits will cause batteries to fail; no longer providing the expected autonomy or, in the case of a generator the inability to start. The Result – loss of the site load. Then suddenly you require a 24-7 emergency call out engineer.
Uninterruptible power supplies may have internal batteries or housed in separate battery cabinets. Each battery has a recommended design life, usually 5 years or 10 years, although these are optimistic as they don’t take into account high usage of the UPS Battery system caused by intermittent spikes, brown outs or voltage fluctuations which are absorbed by the batteries to protect your mission critical sensitive systems.
Even though the battery may have an operating life expectancy stated by the manufacturer of typically up to ten...