How to Maintain an UPS Battery

An ups battery is used to store power to allow you to still use your computer without losing your data when outages occur. Of course, nowadays high-powered devices and even telecommunication devices also have corresponding ups systems for protection. The most common type of battery used in today’s ups is the valve-regulated lead acid battery, which is short for VRLA battery. These batteries are sealed, so the water can not be added to VRLA batteries, recombination of water is critical to their life and health. In addition, any factor that increases the rate of evaporation or water loss, such as temperature or heat from the charging current, reduces the life of the battery. In other words, if you don’t maintain the battery on a regular basis or sit unused with no charging regimen, their life will decrease.

The UPS battery is not so cheap in the market, so I think most people are not willing to allow their investment not to get the full value. So we need to do some measures to protect it and prolong its life.

UPS battery is generally sealed maintenance-free batteries, but the user is three to six months to do a discharge test, and observe the changes in battery capacity indicator, in order to understand the current battery status. Other battery maintenance detection method is as follows:

1. Visual inspection whether cell surface deformation or expansion of leakage phenomenon.

2. View the battery + and - poles is oxidation?

3. Test whether the battery terminals are loose.

4. Measure the battery terminal charging voltage. (Normal value of each cell is 13.7 ~ 13.8Vdc)

5. UPS battery longer, regular maintenance should be more intensive, UPS can not avoid the delay of the mains power supply interruption.

6. Recommended environmental temperature between 0 ~ 40 avoid direct sunlight and clean air.

7. Responsible for the cell maintenance of professional engineers who recommended the implementation of the battery under the guidance of professional engineers perform maintenance or requested, to avoid electric shock from happening.

Simple tips that are given in the above may help you to maintain the ups battery. Besides, due to the self-discharge characteristics of lead acid batteries, it is recommended you charge them every three to four months of storage. Otherwise, permanent loss of capacity will occur between 18 and 30 months. To prolong shelf life without charging, please store batteries at 10°C (50°F) or less.

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