UPS Replacment Best Practices

[Anonymous user]

Hello All,

I need to develop a replacement plan for our server UPS's. Does anyone know where I can find a best practice document on replacement? I would also appreciate knowing what others do in their company. Specifically I would like to know how long it is recommended to keep a UPS in service and how often batteries should be changed.

I am currently budgeting for 2011. We always have in the budget the funds to replace any failed UPS's but ideally, we should have a replacement schedule for our UPS's to avoid having them go down (although our UPS's are redundant :).

Thanks for any advice/help!

Daniel

[BillP · Accepted solution]

well, from an APC standpoint, our UPSs, in general, are designed around a 10 year life cycle.

[this article on battery life may also help you out|http://nam-en.apc.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8301]