I'd suggest you should review is the National Fire Protection Agency
(NFPA) as well as any local fire codes.
[http://www.nfpa.org/codesonline]
NFPA/Codes/NFPA 100 - 199/
- NFPA 111 Standard on Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and
Standby Power Systems 2001...
I have mixed views on VRLA. We use VRLA batteries extensively in our company. In 1989 we began using 20 year batteries. To date, they have been less than satisfactory - some failing between 7 and 11 years. The kicker was that when they failed they had a tendancy to fail in an "open...
Can someone advise me the risk/benefits of parallel battery strings.
The requirement is 120V/800AH but we try to standardize on Liberty 1000 series batteries. At one location, the vendor installed a parallel string consisting of two(2)X 40 cell LS3-400 (3vpc)in parallel...
