In this blog, we investigate why industrial UPS batteries fail prematurely in South Africa, because in many UPS failures, the UPS itself is not the problem, the battery system is. Across South Africa and the broader Southern African region, businesses often invest heavily in UPS infrastructure while paying far less attention to the batteries supporting …
In this blog, we investigate why UPS batteries require proper maintenance and replacement strategies in South Africa, where power disruptions are not limited to load shedding, and temperatures in some regions often exceed the battery-safe 25 °C. Unplanned outages caused by grid instability, poor infrastructure maintenance, vandalism, and severe weather events continue to disrupt business …
Riello UPS introduces Multi Power2 M2X for small data centres and critical applications Intelligent modular UPS architecture delivering continuity, flexibility, and high efficiency. January 27, 2026 Riello UPS has announced the launch of Multi Power2 M2X, a new generation of modular online double-conversion UPS systems developed to support power continuity, scalability, and high energy efficiency …
The Importance of Three-Phase UPS Systems in the Southern African Medical Field. Hospitals and healthcare facilities operate complex, sensitive systems that rely on continuous, stable, and clean sine-wave power. A single disruption can compromise a patient’s health, damage expensive medical equipment, purge highly expensive cooling gas for MRI and CT scanner superconducting imaging magnets or …
Discover the key to reliable backup power in Southern Africa with our expert guide on UPS battery selection, maintenance, and performance. Learn the differences between VRLA, NiCad, and Lithium-ion batteries, how to size them correctly, and what practices extend their lifespan. Whether you’re managing a home office or an industrial data centre, this article outlines the essential steps to keep your UPS system operating at its best.
A UPS system’s battery is what truly delivers uninterrupted power when you need it most. That’s why proper UPS battery maintenance is essential—not only to ensure reliability but also to avoid the risks associated with battery failure. And when a battery reaches the end of its life, safe and responsible disposal is just as important.
A UPS is only as good as its battery, so we collected 21 frequently asked questions about UPS batteries to help you understand the role and significance of a UPS and its batteries.
While VRLA (Valve-Regulated Lead Acid) batteries are a popular choice for UPS systems, their limitations in high-cycle applications often go unnoticed—until performance begins to degrade. Understanding these limitations is of the utmost importance to ensure that your UPS system operates efficiently and reliably all the time.
Capacitors in UPS systems: Essential components that stabilize voltage, filter electrical noise, and protect sensitive equipment. Learn why capacitors are crucial for uninterrupted power in South Africa and how regular maintenance can enhance UPS performance and longevity.
Standby Systems Exhibiting at Electra Mining Africa 2024 for the first time. It was also the first time we had our suppliers’ representative for Riello in Italy with us at a show.
Standby Systems, a leader in power backup solutions, offers a range of UPS systems specifically designed for the harsh conditions of mining environments. These UPS systems are built to withstand extreme temperatures, dust, and humidity, ensuring reliable performance in even the most challenging settings.
In South Africa, where load shedding and unplanned outages have become part of everyday life, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems play a vital role in ensuring continuous business operation. However, not many people know that the battery is one of the most critical components of a UPS system. Therefore, understanding the lifetime of these batteries …
At Standby Systems, we offer a complete range of leading industry Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems with a full complement of energy-efficient UPS solutions. With our extensive and high-tech range of UPSs, Standby Systems can provide any business with a technologically advanced and cost-effective solution to address all your backup power needs in one package. …
As South Africa wrestles with the challenges from Eskom and the inconvenience of load shedding, ensuring the reliability of standby power has become an important task. In this comprehensive guide, Standby Systems introduces the crucial aspects of maintaining Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and their batteries. By performing these regular maintenance assessments and self-checks, businesses …
High-rate batteries are specifically designed for applications where bursts of power are needed for a short time, such as in an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system during power outages. When the mains power fails, the UPS needs to switch to its batteries instantly to prevent any interruption to the connected load. High-rate batteries can provide …
Selecting the right lead carbon high-cycle or Lithium battery solution for your solar inverter system can be a difficult process, with many choices. To do so requires a detailed analysis of the following: Initial cost versus number of cycles. Number of cycles at your selected DOD. How much capacity you remove each time you discharge …
Choosing the right battery for your UPS system is crucial to ensuring business continuity, especially with South Africa’s unstable power grid. This guide explores different UPS battery technologies, from high-rate AGM batteries for instant power transfer to advanced lithium-ion and nickel-zinc (NiZn) options. Learn how to select the best battery for your needs, whether for data centers, emergency lighting, or industrial applications.
Standby Systems, for all your UPS after-sales queries and repairs, UPS parts, and UPS batteries in Johannesburg and Southern African continent Standby Systems is a leading provider of repairs, spare parts, and maintenance services for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. With its headquarters in Laserpark, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Standby Systems offers UPS sales and support centers …
When it comes to Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, batteries play a crucial role in ensuring continuous power backup. Choosing the right battery type, understanding battery capacity, and following best practices for maintenance can significantly impact performance and longevity. This guide covers everything you need to know about UPS batteries, including different types, battery capacity calculations, safety precautions, and maintenance tips.
Lithium battery solutions for your AROS Riello UPS (uninterruptible power supply) solutions are available from Standby Systems for any industry, including commercial, banking, industrial, medical, and data centre applications for emergency power backup to combat the continuous and ongoing poor power quality being experienced by the South African business sector. Although lithium batteries are currently …
Do you regularly look inside your UPS system, also called an uninterruptable power supply system, and check on your battery status? With the bad power supply conditions we are experiencing in South Africa, it is more important now than ever before to regularly check your UPS and monitor it for any signs of possible failure. …
When your rack mount UPS fails or needs maintenance or a battery change, your servers will often have to face downtime while this process is undertaken. Any rack mount UPS of 6 or 10 kVA rating will have to be hard-wired into your server rack by a qualified electrician. This can create a problem when …
The ELITE batteries that are offered by Standby Systems are mostly VRLA (Valve Regulated Lead Acid) batteries which are suitable for use in various applications such as: Riello AROS tower or rack mount UPS (uninterruptible power supply) Single-phase Sentinel Dual and Sentinel tower UPS Three-phase Riello MPS and MHE UPS Telecoms Gel …
One word: ESKOM. Two more words: LOAD SHEDDING. Thanks to ESKOM’s failing infrastructure, South Africans are subjected to rolling backouts, day after day, up to twelve hours a day, depending on what stage we’re on. Stage 2 used to be the norm. Now, Stages 5 and 6 are becoming an everyday thing. How can businesses …
When load shedding results in power interruptions, people will spend money on almost anything to ensure backup power. Consumers’ vulnerability and the demand for standby power have led to an influx of options; unfortunately, some are less than ideal and unwitting people are being taken for a ride. Not many people understand the terminology used …
Standby Systems caters to all UPS, standby, and backup solutions in the commercial environment, which is especially useful in South Africa as ESKOM subjects us to more and more load shedding and power outages due to the failing electrical infrastructure. Standby Systems also offers service and maintenance plans for AROS Riello and Pure Line products …
The best battery for standby use has always been a topic for discussion. This question applies across all industries, including banking, commercial, insurance, medical, and the IT sector, where UPS systems are used. Data backup is critical to the sustainability of any business, and this includes the security of the records that need to be …
Standby Systems can offer highly advanced UPS backup power protection technology for all applications in the health care sector The equipment used in the health care profession is highly advanced and sensitive to power quality. Whether a patient is undergoing a routine check-up or advanced medical procedure, it is essential to ensure the highest standard …
Standby Systems is the number one specialist for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system spare parts, repairs, and maintenance, based in Johannesburg with an after-sales technical footprint covering the whole of South Africa. Based with the head office in Laserpark, Standby Systems, along with its Riello product, has UPS sales and service support centres all over …
Minimize your critical infrastructure by opting for the world-renowned Riello UPS. Riello UPS, with its manufacturing facilities in Milan, Italy, is a world market leader in the manufacture of uninterruptible power supplies, which offer unequaled support and protection to all types of critical loads while ensuring unmatched energy efficiencies along with maximum flexibilities in system …
Data centre or IT system downtime is a major risk to any business To limit the risk of data centre downtime, the best practice is to regularly perform preventative maintenance on both the UPS unit and its associated backup battery bank, along with rigid testing. In all the root cause analyses, your UPS system accounts …
UPS unit, backup battery maintenance and servicing is a planned regular preventative maintenance requirement. The service is performed either on the client’s site or, in the case of hard-wired systems, in the Standby Systems Workshops. Plug-and-play systems maintenance is done to detect problems before they occur and to compensate for normal wear and tear from …
There are three battery design technologies generally used in UPS systems.They include: Lead-Acid, which is by far the best cost-effective solution. They are low maintenance, easily disposed of, and the most popular choice. Nickel Cadmium. Lithium Ion or LiFePHO4. All 3 of these technologies work very well and reliably with a Riello UPS unit from …
It is a known fact that a UPS battery will not last forever and that a battery is a medium-term consumable item that requires replacement every few years. Battery replacement is determined by its design life and the number of charge and discharge cycles that it undergoes while in use in the field. It is …
Currently, emergency power backup import houses and their “experts” are springing up everywhere, importing and unscrupulously installing lithium-based battery products for UPS and PV solar applications, without any consideration for end-of-life disposal, by way of environmentally friendly 100% recycling and NOT by dumping it, poisoning our environment even further. Yes, their argument is valid. The …
Everyone knows that a UPS unit or emergency backup power plant plays a vital role in our modern-day high-paced lives. UPS are used in all walks of life. From shopping centres, for safety such as emergency lighting and for keeping online banking up and running all the time no matter how unreliable the power supply …
In this article we aim to answer three FAQs about UPS batteries: How is a UPS backup battery made? What are the things you should look out for when purchasing a backup battery? Is my UPS battery really a green solution for Africa? 1. How is a UPS backup battery made? The theory behind any …
Pure lead batteries have a wide range of applications for use in UPS, telecoms, energy storage and cyclic solar. Pure lead batteries contain no contaminants within the lead. They are made through a purification production process where positive and negative lead strips are stamped out of the material. Unlike traditional pasted plate technology batteries where …
It is very important to consider the right battery for any application and the way it is installed within the correct environment and operating conditions. Factors effecting the battery’s actual service life include: Incorrect application of a specific battery range.For example, using a 102AH semi-sealed automotive battery in a UPS application or a telecommunications 200 …
The new ELITE TPPL sealed battery range has been launched in SA by Standby Systems. This float application backup battery is specifically designed for use with UPS systems. They have an unprecedented high power output performance to support any instant high-demand power requirements from 5 minutes to 60 minutes. TPPL, which stands for Thin Plate …
The ELITE low-maintenance high-temperature battery can work in a non-air-conditioned environment with a design life expectancy of 10 years at 35 degrees Celsius ambient whilst offering good performance under these conditions. Some of the reasons why it is capable of this type of operation are: The casing consists of vertical ribs within a tapered structure …
A UPS backup battery is a commodity with a fixed service life that is further reduced or influenced by many external factors. There are several things that one can do to ensure that the UPS backup battery is kept in optimal condition and delivers the best battery service life: All batteries are susceptible to high …
The intention of this article is to inform you of the basic principles and building blocks of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and what it does to offer you backup power when the mains fails. Why is UPS backup power protection, like Riello UPS from Standby Systems, so essential in South Africa? The power grid …
When buying a UPS, the battery it is supplied with, and the technology of the battery used, are as important as the build quality of the UPS. Many types of batteries are used recklessly by some of the “UPS, inverter, solar and backup power experts” that have evolved since ESKOM started falling apart in the …
Standby Systems offers a wide range of batteries from Lead acid through to Nickel Cadmium and LIFEPO4. The most commonly used battery in a UPS application is the lead acid. There are several types of lead acid batteries available: VRLA – Valve Regulated lead acid (Sometimes called sealed batteries) Design life: 3 to 5 years …
Voltage: 6V & 12V Capacity: 12AH to 250AH Design floating service life: Up to 33AH :3 to 5 Years / >33AH : UPTO 10 Years a at 20oC/68Of General Features Nonspillable Sealed and Maintenance-free Operation High Quality and High Reliability Exceptional Deep Discharge Recovery Low Self-discharge Long Service Life Solid Copper Terminals Tank-formed Plates Computer-aided …
1.1 Nonspillable The ELITE VRLA battery uses an absorbed electrolyte system. All of the electrolyte is absorbed into the positive plates, negative plates, and the separators. Coupled with the use of special sealing epoxies, and long sealing paths for posts, ELITE VRLA batteries have exceptional leak resistance, and can be used in any position. 1.2 …
What battery is the best choice to use in a UPS system giving emergency backup power to critical loads? The world of batteries is so vast now days that one has many choices in the type or make of battery to use. There are many advancements in battery technology with a multitude of advantages and …
Trademark : ELITE Life Expectancy : 10yrs Type : Sealed lead acid batteries Standard : CE, UL, ISO9001 Issued by Dnv, Iec, IEEE, JIS, Euro, JIS, IEC, VDC, UL certified Quality : High quality VRLA battery produced with 99.99% pure lead Application : UPS and Alarm systems, Medical Equipment, Power tools, Control Equipment, Solar and …
