Battery Monitoring Systems

Battery maintenance and management typically takes two forms but the best price is not always the cheapest solution:

Periodic Test and Verification

Where periodic tests (typically every 6 months) are undertaken to test and record the battery capacity, impedance, and possibly resistivity, to establish the condition of the individual block or cell.

“Although outwardly cheaper than continual battery monitoring this only provides a single test every 6 months. The battery could pass a test and then fail resulting in your load becoming un-protected within hours of passing a battery impedance test a ‘costly saving’ indeed”

Battery Monitoring Systems

This permanently connected battery monitoring system poles every block or even every cell in a battery every few seconds. Rather than measure each parameter in isolation the system can then compare the cells with other cells in the array and identify out of normal range of acceptable and provide and alarm. This technique accommodates the normal degenerative effects of age, temperature and cycling of batteries and thereby provides a real world battery condition report. 

"Our recommendation for high Tier data centres and centres in which battery use is extensive is to use permanent battery monitoring which results in much better reliability and a lower maintenance cost”

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