What is an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS)?
An uninterrupted power supply (UPS) is essential for most businesses today. From hospitals that need a UPS to maintain necessary equipment to e-commerce companies that rely on a UPS to remain in constant communication with customers, these systems are leveraged across industries to avoid downtime and continue operations.
What are Server Rack Batteries?
Server rack batteries are specially designed to provide backup power to servers and other critical equipment in data centers. As energy storage units, these batteries ensure a stable power supply during outages, keeping essential systems online. Comprehensive testing is necessary before these batteries reach the market to guarantee their reliability and performance. Environmental test chambers play a critical role here, enabling manufacturers to assess the durability and longevity of server rack batteries under varying conditions, ultimately helping to optimize their design and performance for future applications.
Why Do Server Rack Batteries Need Testing?
Temperature Tolerance
Data centers generate considerable heat, which can affect battery performance and longevity. Server rack batteries must withstand fluctuations in temperature and still perform efficiently. Testing under various temperatures helps manufacturers understand battery behavior in typical operating and extreme scenarios.
Load-Bearing Capacity
Server rack batteries often experience sudden high loads, especially during power outages. Testing these batteries for their load-bearing capacity ensures they can handle rapid changes in energy demand without compromising safety or performance.
Cycle Life
Battery life cycles are crucial in determining how long a server rack battery will last before needing replacement. Manufacturers can predict how these batteries will age over time through repeated charging and discharging in a controlled testing environment.
Safety and Reliability
Battery failures can lead to overheating, fires, and even explosions, which are unacceptable risks in data center environments. Rigorous safety testing under controlled conditions is necessary to mitigate these risks and validate that each battery meets industry standards.
The Role Battery Test Chambers Play in Server Rack Battery Testing.
From portable electronics to remote monitoring devices, server rack batteries are used for various purposes. Their advantages make them unique and unparalleled, which makes the need for battery testing all the more important. Server rack batteries give off considerable amounts of heat and consume a lot of energy. Environmental test chambers play an important part in testing to understand how these batteries will react to a range of temperature conditions from extreme cold to extreme heat, ensuring they can perform at all conditions.
Temperature and Humidity Battery Test Chambers
Managing temperature and humidity where battery systems are located can be difficult. Too high or too low of humidity can cause problems, leading to corrosion or condensation. By testing server rack batteries in temperature and humidity test chambers, you can learn more about the response to different humidity conditions and withstanding moisture levels without compromising performance.
Temperature-Only Battery Test Chambers
Testing server rack batteries in temperature-only chambers is essential to ensure they can effectively perform within challenging conditions. With a thermal chamber from AES, you can manipulate temperature conditions within an enclosed space, learning more about how to create server rack batteries that hold a longer battery life and charge faster.
As businesses grow and demand more efficient power and faster charging battery power, these innovative server rack batteries must adapt to changing requirements. AES provides solutions with battery fixtures that seamlessly integrate within our battery safety chambers. For example, our ATPHEAVY Adaptable consists of modular plates that can be adjusted and moved to provide a custom-tailored fixture that can support your testing needs. If requirements change, the board can be adjusted to fit the new requirements instead of having to buy a completely new testing set up.
Find Your Next Battery Test Chamber
Associated Environmental Systems specializes in designing cutting-edge battery test chambers, and we understand the unique needs of server rack battery testing. Our chambers are engineered to provide control, uniform airflow, and safety.
Explore our variety of battery test chambers and battery fixtures and find your ideal chamber. Consider our in-stock and ready-to-ship test chambers designed to meet your requirements, and let us know how we can best support your needs. We’re here to help.
