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Best Practices for Maintaining Data Center Uptime
Data centers are the backbone of modern digital infrastructure. Ensuring uninterrupted service during power disruptions requires proactive planning and robust systems. Backup battery systems are...
Rip & Replace and BEAD: What You Need to Know and How Exponential Power Can Help
Rural telecommunications providers face new challenges with government programs like the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program (commonly called “Rip & Replace”) and...
Year-End Preventative Maintenance
Year-end preventative maintenance plays a key role in maintaining reliable backup power systems across industries like data centers, telecommunications, manufacturing, industrial facilities, and...
Extending Your Forklift Lease? How to Keep Your Batteries Running Longer
If you’re considering extending the lease on your forklift, it’s essential to think about how you’ll keep your batteries running effectively during that period. Motive power batteries are the...
Are Maintenance-Free Batteries Really Maintenance-Free? Understanding VRLA Battery Maintenance
The term "maintenance-free" has been around for a long time, primarily used by the automotive industry to highlight the convenience of batteries that don’t require water refills. In automotive...
Choosing the Right Battery to Keep Your Material Handling Operation Running Smoothly
You juggle many roles: strategist, efficiency expert, and the one responsible for keeping your industrial equipment—from forklifts to pallet jacks—charged and ready to go. Downtime is the last thing...
The Importance of Battery Systems in Modern Life: Lead-Acid, Nickel-Cadmium, and the Rise of Lithium-Ion
Batteries play an integral role in the systems that power the world around us. From keeping communication networks running to providing essential backup power in critical infrastructure, they ensure...
Battery Charger Efficiencies: Ferro vs. High-Frequency Technology and How They Benefit Battery Conditioning
For fleet managers overseeing material handling equipment such as forklifts and pallet jacks, one of the most critical factors in maintaining operational efficiency is the proper charging and...
What Rural Telecom Providers Need to Know About the “Rip and Replace” Program
Big changes could be coming to the telecom industry, and if you're a rural telecom provider, these changes could have a direct impact on your business. Congress has recently proposed new funding to...
Replacing Lead-Acid and Nickel-Cadmium Stationary Batteries with Lithium-Ion – It’s Not a Simple Swap
The rapid advancement and adoption of lithium-ion batteries in battery electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems has people considering replacing their existing lead acid and...
Prevention Through Design: Strategies To Reduce The Hazards Of Stationary Battery Systems Through Intelligent Design
Introduction Stationary battery systems have a high potential for electrical risk but with proper forethought and the implementation of simple design features, we can reduce that risk. This paper...
Hurricane Restoration: Tales from the Field
Introduction On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama causing damage on scale never before witnessed in the affected area. Three weeks later, Hurricane...
Storing Lithium Batteries – The Safety Needs & Regulatory Requirements
Introduction A major benefit of Lithium-ion batteries is the amount of power they can store. Unfortunately, this can also be a drawback because if this energy is released in an uncontrolled manner a...
Reducing the Hazards of Stationary Battery Systems Through Intelligent Design
Introduction Stationary battery systems have a high potential for electrical risk, but the risks can be reduced with the implementation of simple design features. Stationary battery systems are...
Hydrogen Gas Monitoring in Stationary & Utility Applications
Introduction: Risk—Monitored and Unmonitored Both Lead Acid and Nickel Cadmium batteries produce flammable hydrogen gas during normal charging. Overcharging, excessive heat and many other factors...
Short Circuit Battery Installation Damage
Introduction An electrical contractor created a short circuit during a battery installation. In 2016, we received a called for assistance from one of our customers when their “embedded” electrical...
Testing Internal Resistance of VRLA Batteries
Introduction Battery system maintenance and monitoring are key elements in the reliability of any DC battery powered system and are IEEE and NERC requirements. Also, most battery manufacturers...
Tubular vs. Flat Plate Battery Design
Introduction Lead-acid batteries have been around for more than 150 years. While flat plate models with a lattice grid represented a technological leap forward in 1881, tubular construction is a...
Battery Damage Caused by Unqualified Installers
Introduction An electrical contractor damaged jars during installation resulting in delayed leaks surfacing after new battery and battery building was turned over to plant operations. In 2017 we...
Battery Warranties Explained
Introduction: Battery Warranties The idea of the 20-year warranty began in the 1960s as a marketing campaign for lead calcium batteries. With newer battery technologies being developed with...
The Risks of Unmonitored Hydrogen in Motive Power Applications
Introduction: Hydrogen Risks in Industrial Settings From lead acid to LiOn to NiCad, all batteries produce flammable hydrogen gas during normal charging. Overcharging, excessive heat and many other...
Managing Temperature Extremes in Substation Battery Applications
Introduction • Over the course of one year, SBS assessed multiple 125-volt DC substation battery systems in Wisconsin and Florida which were housed in enclosures that were not temperature regulated...
EquaLink Battery Management System
Product News Release – Announcing New Battery Management System
The EquaLink Battery Management System (BMS), delivers a complete and comprehensive diagnostic and monitoring solution for critical battery maintenance programs and required NERC / IEEE reporting.
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, February 5, 2016 – SBS Testing and Monitoring, a division of Storage Battery Systems, LLC (SBS), an industry leader in battery testing equipment and Power Solutions™, is pleased to announce the release of their new EquaLink Battery Management and Monitoring System.
Exponential Power Acquires DC Kilowatts, Inc., Expanding Motive Power Service Offerings
MENOMONEE FALLS, WI – Exponential Power, Inc. has acquired DC Kilowatts, expanding the company’s motive power service expertise and position as an industry leading supplier of DC power solutions.
DC Kilowatts is based in Indianapolis, IN, providing industrial batteries and chargers for forklifts, switchgear, telecommunications and UPS systems. The company also designs and installs battery charging rooms. The firm was founded in 1980 with a mission “to provide our customers with a level of service second to none.”
Women in Manufacturing
Careers in manufacturing and engineering present a wide variety of interesting and exciting roles which play an essential part in our economy. In this blog, Exponential Power is featuring female team members throughout our organization who help make us a leading provider of stored power solutions and who encourage other women to consider a career in this important industry.
Stuff Their Stockings this Season with Better Tools and More Time
Treat your team this holiday season to time-saving battery test equipment that will make their workdays better.
Battery Monitoring Systems
The SBS EquaLink Battery Management System actively manages reserve power batteries, delivering numerous benefits, such as enhanced reliability and extended service life. Count on EquaLink to eliminate undercharge and overcharge, prevent unexpected battery failure and avoid thermal runaways.
Exponential Power Acquires Power Product Services
MENOMONEE FALLS, WI – Exponential Power, Inc. has acquired Power Product Services, expanding the company’s position as an industry leading supplier of DC power solutions and growing the geographic reach of its telecom services division to span the continental U.S.
Exponential Power Acquires Elite Technologies & Communications
MENOMONEE FALLS, WI – Exponential Power, Inc. has acquired Elite Technologies & Communications, expanding the company’s position as an industry leading supplier of DC power, products, solutions and services. Elite Technologies & Communications (Elite Tech) specializes in advanced network communications, including central office engineering, DC power installation, transport, access and switching.
Exponential Power Acquires MaeTec Power, Inc.
Menomonee Falls, WI – Exponential Power, Inc. has acquired industry-leading MaeTec Power, Inc., expanding the company’s position as a best-in-class supplier of DC power, products, solutions, and...
National Forklift Safety Day
National Forklift Safety Day is June 14, 2022. Exponential Power’s team of professionals is proactive in creating and nurturing safe workplace environments, and we’re honored to be part of this national focus on forklift safety.