Regarding UPS

When to change batteries

If it's been >N years since the last change of batteries you must change them. N=1.5 years for normal batteries and 3.5 years for UASA/CSB. For CSB type L N is 5.5 years but we don't use CSB type L.

Smart UPS Run time

Πειραματικά μέτρησα ~11λετπά με φορτίο ~380W και μπαταρίες CSB-HR1234w-f2-12v-9ah (μετά από 6'10" μου εμφάνιζε ότι έχει άλλα 5').

Θεωρητική αυτονομία με την APC μπαταρίες (ή CSB-HR1234w-f2-12v-9ah ή CSB-HRL1234w-12v-9ah)

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Understanding Batteries Datasheets

CSB batteries

Datasheet of a 12V 6 cells battery:

CSB HR 1234W Constant Current Discharge Characteristics table - annotated

(Image source: Adapted from the question, originally from CSB HR 1234W datasheet.)

F.V. (1st column) Final Voltage of each cell

MIN (1st row) Discharge time in MINutes

All other cells display the current you can draw from a battery for a given time(MIN) before the cell voltage drops to the given F.V. value

For example: If you have a 20 A load and don't want to discharge the battery below 10.5 V (6 cells x 1.75V=10.5V) you can keep discharging for something between 17.5 and 23.5 mins.

[source: stackexchange/csb-batteries-... ]

Other Batteries

As an example here's the datasheet of Sunlight SPA 12V battery. In the datasheet you'll find this graph:

Graph of voltage versus time for various currents

Let's say that this is 7Ahr battery and that you want to draw 14A. You'll have to observe the 2C curve (2C means to discharge at 7Ahr*2/h=14A). You'll note that a fresh, fully charged kept at 25°C battery will drop to 9.5V-10V after about 15mins.

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