UPS Batteries and The Energy Crisis
You would have to be a rover on Mars not to know that fuel prices are going through the roof in the UK. Link this to the high rises we have experienced in metals over the last year and you can suddenly see why battery management and UPS efficiency are becoming hot topics in the world of power protection. Most people consider batteries to be a source of standby power for an uninterruptible power supply. The truth is that they are no different in analogy to the fuel rods in a nuclear power station. They are integral to the process, requiring efficient management and safe testing and disposal. The last five to ten years have seen huge volumes of uninterruptible power supplies shipped into markets across the world. This means that there are now literally millions of UPS batteries close to failure. In fact many may already be there but the UPS is not sophisticated enough to know this. Think about the image with this entry and ask yourself how near to empty are your batteries? The only way to tell is to test them in anger during your next mains power failure or take a preventative action and instigate onsite UPS battery testing. The latter approach could literally save you thousands in lost downtime and help prevent your own ‘local’ energy crisis. As our current advertising campaign states ‘it only takes one second to crash your network’.
