What is a zinc five battery cabinet?

ZincFive‘s BC Series Battery Cabinets, while housing NiZn batteries with all of their associated benefits, adapt the lead-acid charging system to the needs of the nickel-zinc battery. The battery cabinets’ intelligent charging & monitoring system emulates the profile of lead-acid batteries to the UPS.

Are nickel-zinc batteries better than lead-acid batteries?

However, UPS systems that utilize nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery technology have specific advantages over lead-acid in terms of performance, reliability, safety, lifetime cost and climate impact. Despite these advantages of alternative battery chemistries, most existing UPS systems were already designed to work with lead-acid batteries.

Do data centers use lead-acid batteries?

Historically, most data centers depend on lead-acid batteries to power their UPS systems.

Can a NiZn battery chemistry charge a lead-acid battery?

Fortunately, one workaround exists to avoid that extra time and cost. A NiZn battery chemistry can, in fact, charge from a UPS made only for lead-acid battery profiles without additional hardware – as long as it has backward/forward compatibility, the ability to seamlessly operate with a UPS designed for a different battery chemistry than its own.

How does a NiZn battery cabinet work?

Since the UPS doesn’t “know” that the NiZn battery string has a different chemistry, it operates the string just as it would for its previous lead-acid inhabitants. This way, ZincFive’s UPS Battery Cabinet’s specialized profile allows operators to use NiZn battery cabinets as “drop-in” replacements.

What is a “drop-in replacement” battery storage system?

Thus, the best solution to this dilemma is a “drop-in replacement” battery storage system that not only enables the incorporation of alternative battery chemistries, but also functions in an existing UPS system without the need for additional modifications.