APC Battery Management System Interpreting alarm details, Category Details Diagnostics, Problem

Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

Interpreting alarm details

For an alarm category:

•The Web interface displays detailed alarm data and any configured threshold values on a single page. For the three types of battery alarms, bar graphs are displayed. To view or change the threshold values, you must use the Configuration menu option of the Battery System menu in the Web interface.

•The control console displays detailed alarm data through numbered menus.

–Values below the low threshold are indicated by the < character, and values above the high threshold are indicated by the > character.

–To view or change the threshold values, select Device Manager and then select String Details in the control console.

See Configuration menu to configure alarm details.

Environment alarms.

	Category	Details	Diagnostics
	Ambient	The air temperature in the	Problem:
	Temperature	battery string environment	• Uncorrected high temperature can cause
		is above or below	permanent damage to the batteries.
		configured thresholds.	• Uncorrected low temperature can cause a
		Default:	reduction in battery runtime.
		50.0° F (10° C): low	Response: Check temperature control and
		threshold	ventilation systems in the room, and check
		95.0° F (35° C): high	for overheated batteries (usually caused by
			overcharging).
		threshold.
	Input Contacts	Activation of input	Check the status of the external monitoring
		contacts triggers an	device that sent the input signal.
		alarm.
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