Battery Monitoring Systems for Manufacturing
Applications
BTECH's Battey Monitoring and Validation Systems are
found in many applications for manufactures of virtually any product,
from Automobiles to Toothpaste.
Food Processing Facilities
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Steel Mills & Heavy Industry
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1) Ensure Your Production Control Systems -
Chances are your production control systems rely on a typical UPS
with a VRLA battery cabinet - meaning your systems are at risk
of battery failure. The losses due to just hours of production
downtime far surpass the cost deploying our Battery Monitoring Solution
across your entire company.
2) Protect Your Switchgear - Standard applications
are 120 or 240V systems with backup batteries ranging from 10 or
20 12V VRLA (monoblock style) to 60 or 120 2V flooded (wet) cell
or large VRLA on racks.
3) Your Corporate Data Center - Make sure your
mission critical data center stays up in during the next outage.
Add your name to our long list of satisfied
clients and
request
a quote, or contact us
for more information today!
"The BTECH system has predicted more than 30 potential battery failures"
We are an Electric and Gas Utility in the State of Michigan. We
have more than 6 million customers state wide. In 1995, three years
after installing 450 KVA of UPS equipment to protect the operation
of Consumers Energy's Corporate Computer System we suffered three
individual battery failures that interrupted computer operations
at critical moments. The interruptions came during storms when our
systems are most taxed for support of storm related power outages.
Nearly four hours of down time was experienced on the automated
Trouble Analysis System which monitors operating systems, prints
work orders for outage restoration and handles more than 10,000
calls per hour during each interruption. The batteries were at fault
and quarterly checks of the batteries failed to recognize the potential
for battery failure or predict their early demise.
We investigated a number of battery monitoring systems and found
BTECH to be the only system that did not perform constant load tests
on the batteries which shortens battery life by testing alone. In
1995 we purchased the BTECH monitoring system for each of 5 UPS
units with more than 300 batteries in the system for corporate offices
here in Jackson Michigan. Since their installation we have not
had one battery related outage of an operating UPS unit. In
fact, we have not had any outages in more than 150 power surges,
spikes, and interruptions of service in the last 8 years.
The BTECH system has fore warned of more than 30 potential battery
failures allowing us to replace batteries before they fail. The
BTECH system has also extended our use of battery strings as well.
Knowing how the batteries are performing late in their life allows
us to replace entire strings at less frequent intervals.
The only way to know how your batteries are performing is to monitor
their performance on weekly basis. BTECH has provided flawless
service in maintaining our battery back-up systems. It allows
us to provide immediate support to our customers when storm outages
occur and seamless operation of our computer support systems.
Ken Rheault
Sr. Technical Analyst
Consumers Energy Co Jackson, Michigan
Member ASHRAE - Member AEE
Certified Energy Mananger
Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional
 GSA Contract
# GS-07F-5819P
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