Powershield Europe, a division of Advanced Battery Care Limited, has just launched its new website www.powershield.com)>(www.powershield.com) for 2009! Featuring customer’s stories running along the website as you click through, it guides you through the benefits of using battery monitoring for your business.

ABC have spent many successful years maintaining the UPS batteries for large corporations and public services alike and now have the potential to increase this success still further. As any manager who looks after back-up power will know, problems can occur from an individual monobloc in the battery system. This can have an immediate detrimental effect on the system; reducing the capacity; which may result in insufficient autonomy time should a power cut occur.

David Joshua, European Sales Director said “This is a fantastic opportunity to save your budget, particularly with the state of the economy at the moment…. Using Powershield will allow you to get that extra mile out of your battery system and in doing so free up more time before replacing those costly battery strings”

The system works 24/7 taking Voltage, Impedance, Current and Temperature readings. This is all recorded in an easy-to-view format and our customers normally print off graphs to use at meetings or with reports. Powershield systems link up to networks or BMS systems to alert you to potential problems quickly, giving you advanced warning and allowing planned maintenance to work effectively.

Other advantages include vastly reduced maintenance costs as engineers only need visually check battery systems without physically having to test them. This also reduces the element of risk involved and improves Health and Safety dramatically.

If you have any questions at all, to find out who’s using the system already or if you would like to find out how cost-effective the system could be, please email David at david.joshua@powershield.com or call +44(0)1672 520572 and he would be happy to help. Also please visit the new website www.powershield.com for more information.

Our PowerShield division is responsible for the supply and distribution of PowerShield Sentinel battery monitors in the UK and across Europe. Heading up ths division is David Joshua - European Sales Manager - for full information visit www.powershield.com Sales of PowerShield monitors are backed up by Advanced Battery Care Engineers who will install, commission and provide ongoing monitoring of the systems as required.

Power failures can cause terrible disruption to any computer system which is why huge investment is ploughed into UPS systems. The UPS Power Module is highly reliable but the batteries which form the heart of the system are not.

As the advert says – look after your heart!

There are two ways to do this which need to be combined to achieve the best results.

Firstly, ensure the maintenance company you outsource to really understands batteries and have the experience and test facilities to be sure of battery condition.

Secondly, install an effective battery monitoring system for 24/7 monitoring between maintenance visits.

In fact, why not make it easy and use a one stop shop?

Advanced Battery Care have been maintaining VRLA battery systems since 1994 and now visit 2,000 sites every year. However, we are not only experts in battery maintenance; we also supply and install the PowerShield Sentinel battery monitor in the UK and Europe. Although well proven the Sentinel is being constantly developed and can now monitor monobloc impedance, voltage and temperature.

So with ABC maintaining your batteries and providing 24/7 remote monitoring you have ensured the reliability of the most critical component providing uninterruptible power to your computer system.

Please call David Fremlin on 01672 520895 to ensure your critical system is receiving the attention it needs.

ABC also offers a “Guide to VRLA Battery Management” which is available for download from the Information Centre on our website at >www.batterycare.co.uk.