Getting the best from your battery system boils down to good planning, regular inspections and a well-maintained environment. Batteries are a hot topic because of their increasingly critical role in a renewable world. Yet despite this undeniable fact, Data Center Dynamics says most people do not even understand the basics.
Getting the Best from Your Battery Location
A battery backup system must be able to lie dormant for month after month. Yet be able to spring to life in an instant and deliver seamless power. A generator can’t reach full power instantly. This is why getting the best from your battery project is so important if you have essential data to protect. Here are two critical things to know.
How Dependable Is Your Utility Power?
Utility reliability reduces as power stations and transmission lines age. Frequent outages mean system batteries have to work harder. This is a critical factor, because they can only survive a limited number of discharging / charging cycles. This is far more relevant than shelf battery life.
How Hot or Cold Is the Battery Environment?
A high ambient temperature, by human standards accelerates the chemical reactions inside batteries causing them to age faster. Conversely, below-zero temperatures degrade battery performance, which is why they are more likely to fail on cold days.
Therefore, it follows that battery backup systems need a temperature-steady environment in which humans are comfortable too. Ignoring this basic fact can result in batteries failing sooner.
Is Your Battery Back-Up System Backed Up?
If instant access to your data is critical, then you should have a second installation in a different location. However, not even this will ensure total confidence. Getting the best from a battery system includes regular inspection and servicing too. You do this with your auto battery. Why not do this to your battery backup systems too?
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