Prolonged useful Life and Reduced Maintenance of Lead-Acid Batteries, by Means of Individual Cell Voltage Regulation

Abstract

During the last year we have seen an increasing number of applications within telecommunications for small power plants. Rural switching equipment has been with us for a long time, but cellular radio base stations and microwave repeaters in large quantities have not been on the scene that long. Totally new applications are the telecommunications part of the "new computerized office" and power units for individual racks or rack suites in switching systems not using a central power plant. The new type of power plants for these applications also calls for a new type of batteries and battery applications.