Best Practice: Load operating levels?

[BillP]

I have a new SURTD5000RMXLT-1TF5 with three battery packs that's running around 75% load (68% or so when the connected equipment is idle). I'm getting the expected run-time, but the load is a bit higher than planned. So this prompted the question, what's the recommended operating load range? I asked APC, and they indicated that anything below 80% should be good, but didn't have any best practice docs to point me to either. The answer just seemed really off the cuff, so I'm looking for further info here.

Is the load really more of a capacity issue? Meaning, as long as I'm below 100%, I'm ok? Or is operating at 85% bad? 95%? Beyond being that much closer to 100% of course.

The real reason I'm asking is because I'm tuning the triggers in some SNMP software.

Thanks for the help.

[BillP · Accepted solution]

I have a new SURTD5000RMXLT-1TF5 with three battery packs that's running around 75% load (68% or so when the connected equipment is idle). I'm getting the expected run-time, but the load is a bit higher than planned. So this prompted the question, what's the recommended operating load range? I asked APC, and they indicated that anything below 80% should be good, but didn't have any best practice docs to point me to either. The answer just seemed really off the cuff, so I'm looking for further info here.

Is the load really more of a capacity issue? Meaning, as long as I'm below 100%, I'm ok? Or is operating at 85% bad? 95%? Beyond being that much closer to 100% of course.

The real reason I'm asking is because I'm tuning the triggers in some SNMP software.

Thanks for the help.