What does the 'Design Life' of a battery mean?

Battery quality can be determined by the ‘design life’, typically between 5-12 years for VRLA batteries. The ‘design life’ is not and never will be a guaranteed life expectancy and relies on several factors including environment, temperature, maintenance, number of discharge cycles, charging regime etc. From experience, we generally expect a good quality 9-10 year design life product to need replacement in approx 6-8 years.

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Lifespan of UPS batteries

Batteries are essential for UPS correct functioning. In this whitepaper we explain the main important factor that affect their duration and we provide some recommendations for optimizing the UPS + batteries system, in order to maximize its lifespan and general availability.

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