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A battery acid leak or spill in the data center is not a good thing. The APC Matrix 5000 UPS SmartCell XR is prone to leakage.

These units essentially use automotive type batteries in the XR cabinet that are sealed and set on their side. If one of these batteries fails, they often overheat and will leak acid from the sealed caps. In fact, I have seen a few that blew the caps out and created a serious acid spill.

The best way to prevent a serious acid spill is to check these units at least once per day for excess heat. A quick check can be done by simply running your hand over the front of each unit to detect any raise in temperature. The temperature raise is quite obvious from the "normal" room temp. It is important to disconnect a overheating battery as soon as possible to prevent an acid spill. The bad battery led indicator on the front of these units is pretty much useless as they do not detect most of the battery problems so don't rely on it.

If you detect heat, do the following:

1. Unplug the input and output cables from the back of the unit to drop it off line from the main electronics unit therefore removing the load.

2. Do not open the front cover until the unit temperature returns to room temp.

3. Replace all 4 batteries - Replacement battery set - APC Part# RBC14 which costs around $500.

If one of your battery units has started leaking, do the same procedure, except make sure that you use eye and hand protection when removing the old batteries.

If you open the front cover of a unit with suspected bad battery, you can identify which of the four batteries is bad by it's bulging sides and/or leakage from the caps on the connector side.

So if you detect a battery acid smell in your data center, check those old XR battery units!

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To use USB to charge batteries

Universal Serial Bus (USB) port is a power and ground with a bi-directional data port. USB can connect all types of peripherals, including external drives, storage devices, keyboard, mouse, wireless interfaces, video and still cameras, MP3 players and the countless variety of electronic equipment. Many of these devices use battery-powered, some with built-in battery. For battery charging design, the application of a wide range of USB brings both opportunities and challenges. This paper describes how a simple Olympus E1 battery charger with the USB power source interface. Article reviews the USB power bus characteristics, including voltage, current limit, inrush current, connectors and cable connection problem. At the same time introduced a nickel-metal hydride batteries (NiMH) and lithium battery technologies, charging methods, and charge termination techniques. Gives a complete example of circuit used to implement USB port for charging NiMH batteries intelligent, and gives the charging data.
Overview
Universal Serial Bus (USB) port is a power and ground with a bi-directional data port. USB can connect all types of peripherals, including external drives, storage devices, keyboard, mouse, wireless interfaces, video and still cameras, MP3 players and the countless variety of electronic equipment. Many of these devices use battery-powered, some with built-in battery. For battery charging design, the application of a wide range of USB brings both opportunities and challenges. This paper describes how a simple battery charger with the USB power source interface. Article reviews the USB power bus characteristics, including voltage, current limit, inrush current, connectors and cable connection problem. At the same time introduced a nickel-metal hydride batteries (NiMH) and lithium Olympus E-E300 battery technologies, charging methods, and charge termination techniques. Gives a complete example of circuit used to implement USB port for charging NiMH batteries intelligent, and gives the charging data.
USB Features
USB bus can provide power to low-power electronic devices. Bus-power and power isolation, and has very good stability. However, the available current is limited, while the host or power between the load and there is a potential interoperability problems.
Two-way USB port from 90? differential shielded twisted-pair, VBUS (+5 V power supply), and constituted. This is four lines from the aluminum foil and braid shield within the outer shield layer shielding. The latest USB specification version 2.0 standard is available from USB organizations for free. To achieve full compliance with the normative standards, through a functional device and the host controller to achieve two-way communication between the. Specification defines a unit load as 100mA (max). Any equipment allowed to draw the maximum current of 5 units of the load.
USB ports can be divided into low-power port and power port into two categories, low-power port can provide a unit load of current, high-power port provides up to five units of the load current. When the device is connected to the USB port, the device enumeration process to identify and determine its load requirements. In this process, only to allow the device from the host draw up a unit load of current. Enumeration process is complete, if the host's power management software allows, then the high-power devices can draw a larger current.
Some host systems (including downstream USB hub) through fuses or active current limit detector provides workflow features. If the USB device is not USB port through the enumeration process begins with drawing large currents (more than one unit load), then the host will detect over-current condition and will be closed are using one or more USB ports. The market supply of a number of USB devices, including independent Olympus EVOLT battery charger, do not function controller to handle enumeration process, but the current draw is more than 100mA. In this inappropriate conditions, these devices may cause the host problem. For example, if a drawing 500mA current device into a bus-powered USB hub, and did not correct the enumeration process, it may lead to the hub port and host port at the same time overload.
The host operating system, using advanced power management of the situation will be even more complicated, especially notebook computers, it is always hoped that the port currents as low as possible. In some power-saving mode, the computer will suspend issuing commands to the USB device and then think that equipment into a low-power mode. Equipment can be included in a function to communicate with the host controller is always a good practice, even for the same is true for low-power devices.
USB 2.0 specification is very comprehensive and provides for the quality of power supply, connectors, construction, cable material, allowing the voltage drop and inrush current. Low current and high-current power supply port with a different target. This was mainly by the host and the load between the connectors and cable voltage drop on the decision, and includes USB-powered hub to generate voltage drop. Including computer, or self-powered USB hub, including the host, have large current port, which provides maximum 500mA of current. Passive, bus-powered USB hub with a low current port. Table 1 shows the high current and low-current USB ports upstream side (power) pin allows the voltage tolerance.
These indicators apply to the upstream end of the host or hub port connector pins. Cables and connectors on the I x R drops need to be considered separately.
Subject to the host USB 2.0 specification, high-power port with the upstream end of 120?F, low ESR capacitors. The connected USB device input capacitance of 10?F or less limited to, in the initial stage of the load connected, allowing the load from the host (or self-powered hub) to draw the maximum charge number of 50?C. As a result, when the new device is connected to the USB port, the upstream port transient voltage drop is less than 0.5V. If the normal work load required a greater input capacitance, you must provide inrush current limiter, in order to ensure a larger capacitor charging current does not exceed 100mA.
When the USB port with a bus-powered USB hub, hub on the access of low-power device, USB port on a permissible DC voltage drop shown in Figure 1. High-power loads and bus-powered hub connection, the voltage drop will exceed the target given in Figure 1, and will cause the bus overload.
Figure 1. Host to low-power load voltage drop is greater than the figure given to allow DC voltage drop, it will cause the bus overload.

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Can 2 15A outlets be tapped together in a Y-connector so that a 20A battery charger can work?

Can 2 15A outlets be tapped together in a Y-connector so that a 20A battery charger can work?

DO NO TIE TWO OUTLETS TOGETHER! If you were unlucky enough to pick outlets that were on opposite phase legs, you'd have 240V! Very bad idea.

What kind of plug is on the cord from the battery charger? It it's a standard, two, parallel flat blades/one round ground type, it is a 15-amp plug. Duty cycle of the load has a large bearing on how adequate the 15A supply will be. If there is a momentary higher surge that tapers of in a reasonable amount of time, the 15A circuit should be fine.

If the plug has two flat blades at right angles to each other, and one round ground pin, it IS a 20-amp plug. If that's the case, you need to think about adding a dedicated 20-amp circuit for you vehicle charger.

The charger should not have a plug that is inadequate for the load it will draw. If it is CSA approved, it should be OK.

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