Although commonly described as "maintenance free", it is essential for VRLA standby batteries to be monitored on a routine basis to ensure reliable operation. When supporting Telephone Switches the battery system is critical to achieving 100% availability of communications. Advanced Battery Care Engineers maintain 2,000 telecommunication sites across the UK, ensuring that these emergency power systems operate reliably when needed. Many major Telecommunication, UPS and Facilities Management companies outsource this maintenance work to Advanced Battery Care Limited. The case for considering outsourcing.
Businesses these days are leaner than ever before. What all businesses need to do is to concentrate on their core activities, to be the best at those tasks and leave peripheral work to specialist organizations. The benefits of using Advanced Battery Care Ltd. as a service provider are numerous.

1. Expertise
As with every trade, dealing with Lead-Acid or Nickel Cadmium batteries requires specialist knowledge to ensure safe, effective and successful maintenance. Because batteries are our business, our knowledge of batteries is second to none. We hold regular training courses for our staff, visit battery manufacturing plants, attend seminars, workshops and exhibitions - all to enhance our expertise regarding batteries. We manufacturer battery impedance monitoring equipment with many of our competitors being included in our customer list, and we manufacture or distribute many other battery related products.

2. Environmental
Advanced Battery Care Ltd operates a Waste Management system registered to ISO14001:2004.

We also comply with statutory obligations being registered with the Environment Agency as a Broker and Carrier of waste. This allows us to dispose of scrap batteries and provide the necessary Consignment Notes, in line with July 2005 environmental legislation, to our customers.

3. Safety
Our engineers carry all that is needed to ensure safety: protective clothing, Acid neutralizing chemicals, spill kits, first aid kits with additional eyewash facilities, insulated tools, everything we know of, from long experience, to ensure safety of personnel and on-site equipment.

4. Quality
Advanced Battery Care Limited operates a registered quality management system to ISO EN BS 9001 (2000) which specifically relates to "the supply, installation, maintenance and monitoring of standby batteries, Uninterruptible Power Systems and related products".

5. Cost
FinalTogether with the benefits above, a company using our specialist services will achieve cost savings, while providing their customers with a better service. As a result of programmes to achieve a continual improvement in performance and efficiency, such as our "Investors in People" programme, we are able to hold down prices as far as possible despite rising prices.

These are the compelling reasons that have led to so many companies outsourcing battery services to Advanced Battery Care Limited. Contact us to discuss your requirements. We have the resources to provide a completely managed service for power systems across the UK and Northern Ireland - leaving your engineers free to concentrate on what they are good at!

UPS Systems

UPS systems rated at several hundred kVA used in Data Centers have large batteries often consisting of multiple parallel strings and several hundred cells or monoblocs. Typically the batteries use 6 volt monoblocs of 100AH or 160AH capacity or 2 volt cells of up to 500AH capacity having a Design Life of 10 years.

Depending on the quality of manufacture the whole battery will have a reliable operational life averaging around eight years. Because of the electro-chemical nature of batteries, their life span is determined in the main by the rate of internal corrosion which naturally occurs and which is quite variable. Although the vast majority will perform well for the full period expected, some will corrode more rapidly and therefore fail earlier than the rest. In a battery consisting of many hundred cells occasional cells may fail much earlier, even during the first years of operation.

To ensure reliable operation an annual test is recommended to ensure that all cells are in good condition. Advanced Battery Care Ltd provide such tests to many sites and can test up to 1,000 cells or monoblocs per day.

The financial consequences of battery failure at these large sites can run into many thousands of pounds making the relatively inexpensive annual test by a leading battery maintenance company a very worthwhile investment.

Advanced Battery Care completes these tests for major UPS manufacturers and facilities management companies as well as end users across the UK.

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