Four ways to extend data center UPS battery life

Data Center (Aug 20 2009) Power and Cooling

1. Data center backup power is a crucial element to uptime and availability. During an outage, Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes) enable the switch from utility power to backup generator power. But there is a relatively unreliable and expensive variable to most UPSes: batteries. "Simply stated, batteries represent three evils: They are big, they are expensive, and they are expendable," said Pete Sacco, the president of Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based engineering firm PTS Data Center Solutions. "Anything you can do to prolong the life of your batteries will indeed extend the availability of your data center." So here are four ways that data center facility managers can extend the life of their UPS batteries. (Read Full Article)

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