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BTECH Battery Monitoring Systems for
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Are
you concerned by downtime at your facility? Battery Monitoring
is essential to any mission-critical data center facility. Battery
failures have caused tremendous financial losses due to downtime.
You know how important it is to keep your data center up and running...but
did you know how often your batteries can let you down?|
Internet Data Centers |
Financial Data Centers |
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Corporate Data Centers |
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The typical battery strings found in data centers support three-phase UPS systems typically supplied by Liebert, Powerware, MGE, Pillar and Mitsubishi, among others.
These UPS's can have single or multiple 480V cabinets of 40 12-V sealed VRLA batteries or racks of 2V, 4V, 6V or 8V VRLA or Flooded (Wet-Cell) Batteries. It is critical to monitor each of these battery types, as failure can occur in as little as two weeks!
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"On 6/30/94, life changed. We installed
BTECH's Battery Validation System."
March 13, 1993…. I remember it very well. We dropped our entire
load on one of our two fully loaded 300kva UPS systems. We called
in our u.p.s. maintenance provider and wanted an explanation of
why we dropped the load and why didn't he discover a problem just
3 weeks earlier during the p.m. of the UPS Systems. After doing
some checking, he advised us that the u.p.s. was fine, but we had
serious battery backup problems. As you also may remember hearing
from your u.p.s. maintenance provider, "he does not perform
battery maintenance as part of the u.p.s. maintenance" and
if you want your batteries checked out, you will need to contract
with a battery maintenance provider. That was always a huge frustration
because a u.p.s. is basically nothing without a good battery backup.
Needless to say, management was not too happy to be hit with a "surprise"
purchase request for 240 batteries (plus installation) at the end
of our fiscal year.
On 6/30/94, life changed. We installed BTECH's Battery Validation
System. Since that date, I have not had to "wonder" about
the health of each individual battery. We are now on our third
set of VRLA batteries since that last failure in 1993. The BTECH
does not make the batteries last any longer, but it lets you know
when they are getting unhealthy and that you better start taking
some action. We have also used data gathered to assist with discussions
of utility power quality and battery replacement warrant. I review
the test data each week. When hurricane season or one of those "pleasant"
Florida thunderstorms comes around, I honestly do not worry about
the batteries.
Instead of not really knowing how healthy they are, I've got
data that tells me their present condition. I realize there
are other factors that can cause load failure, but to eliminate
the batteries means one less worry.
We have been very pleased with the product's hardware, software
and support. The folks at BTECH are very good at giving support
to customers, no matter what the customer's level of expertise in
battery backup may be. BTECH support knows their product extremely
well.
Rick Faircloth
Data Processing Consultant
State of Florida Department of Law Enforcement
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