Scheduled Battery Maintenance is Very Important
If your industrial battery looks anything like the battery pics seen here, it is way past time to schedule maintenance. Excessive corrosion building like this can be caused by either over watering the battery or watering the battery at the wrong times. You can contact us to schedule maintenance.
Follow These Steps for Proper Battery Maintenance
Only charge the battery when it reaches 20% or lower. Each time you put an industrial battery on charge, it is counted as a charge cycle. Every battery has only so many charge cycles before they are depleted. This varies with each battery and cannot be numbered. The average life expectancy of an industrial battery is around five years. Charging a battery when it is only partially discharged still counts as a charge cycle and takes life from the battery during each cycle.
Water the battery only after the charge cycle is complete and the battery has cooled. If you water a battery before charging it, the watery in the battery will heat up and expand causing it to overflow, causing the corrosion seen in the pics.
Keep Record
The better the records you keep and the more knowledgeable your staff is about watering industrial batteries, the more likely you are going to get a much longer life from those batteries. If you would like training for your staff, please contact us to schedule a class for your employees on basic battery care and maintenance.
Equalize Charge
Equalize charge once per week. Equalizing charge maintains the cell voltage to keep them equal, hence the name equalize charge. What it is doing is giving the industrial battery a deeper charge and slower charge to give any cell that is lagging behind a chance to recover during this charge cycle. It is recommended to di this charge at least once per week to help with any uneven charge cycles that may have occurred during the week.