Lithium Battery - Power Protection

Advances in technology over the years now means the latest generation of UPS are now around 97% efficient. However, we have used the same lead-acid
or VRLA batteries as the UPS’s back-up power store for around 30 years! They still do their job and they do it well: so why change? The challenge with VRLA batteries is that they still require a temperature of around 20°C to optimise their useful life. An industry standard estimate is that for every 10 degrees above 20°C the operating life of a VRLA battery is halved. Therefore, one area which may encourage the widespread adoption of an alternative such as Li-ion batteries into data centres, is the need for energy management. Li-ion batteries offer an alternative to VRLA as they are happy running at much higher temperatures: up
to high twenty/low thirty degrees centigrade. Most IT systems also work at > °C and the UPS technology itself can work well up to 40°C. Certainly, in many
European countries this could mea....