APC Battery Management System - Manual (Page 10)

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USER’S GUIDE
Battery Management System
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Battery management features
The system enables you to do the following:
• Identify weak or defective batteries that need replacement.
• Optimize the charge state of batteries within a string by automated
charging of individual batteries with a lower voltage. Charging these
batteries causes the batteries with high voltage to normalize. All the
batteries in the string become properly charged. This extends the
useful life of overcharged batteries and achieves full capacity of
undercharged batteries.
• Be alerted to alarm conditions that are displayed and logged to warn of
battery system or Battery Management System conditions.