Carbon Lead Battery

With Load Shedding in South Africa and ever rising cost of electricity a lot of people are either busy planning or already did get themselves a Home UPS or Solar system. .

There is a few things in these systems that are very expensive and can get very technical. Your supplier or installer will give you a lot of technical advise and options to help you make the best decision at the best price. But what I see is all to most suppliers is running towards Lithium Iron batteries. Don’t get me wrong they are brilliant and has been a game changer in the market. But they are not always the best option. Lithium Iron batteries also has it’s cons, one of them that will damage then or make them trip in the BMS (Battery Management System) is a quick charge or boost charge. They like to discharge and charge over a 9 hour period. So yes as Solar application it is perfect but as UPS or backup station not always. There are some of them suitable for it you can look at C2 type of cells from Blue Nova https://www.bluenova.co.za/hc-range/

Lead Carbon batteries comes into play and is the answer to most people. For only a fraction of the price more than Normal Lead Acid Batteries you can put these batteries to your system and take advantage of this latest technology. They have loads of power available to release at demand, without any problems you can get with the BMS of Lithium Iron batteries, you can boost charge and pump them with Amps between stages of load shedding.

One of the best advantages is the life cycles they will give you by. Carbon Lead batteries will give you more than 2000 cycles on 50 % of discharge, compare to about 400 cycles on Lead Acid batteries. Lithium batteries can give you about 5000 cycles. These are more or less the averages of the different types of batteries and not all batteries specs are the same. But ask the supplier of sales person for the specifications sheets.