Mike Carrington of Accolade Associates Ltd has created a company to provide battery advice, and on-site services.
He says: “Let our experience provide solutions to your battery problems, projects or needs.” Accolade has been formed to provide a range of services that ensure companies in-house back-up battery systems will deliver when they are called upon, so important for critical standby, solar and motive power duties. Accolade offer battery consultancy, systems design, a range of battery testing, battery asset management as well as their “Health and Safety” battery training courses. Accolade can cover Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), standby battery systems in data centres, telecommunications, motive power, process systems and mission critical backup applications. Accolade work with standby, solar and motive power battery servicing, including automated monitoring, data acquisition systems, on-site battery management and maintenance, with fault diagnosis and performance prediction.
Regular use of their services can minimise the risk of sudden and potentially catastrophic battery failures occurring and, coupled with planned preventative maintenance, will contribute to reliability on ups batteries.
Typical questions they solve are:
*Which battery is the most cost effective for my application?
*What type Lead-Acid, Nickel-Cadmium, and Lithium etc……?
*Is there an alternative to the battery I have in my existing system?
*Lead-acid tubular, pasted plate, planté or VRLA AGM/Gel type batteries?
*BS, IEC or EN, what category is required?
*What is my battery life expectancy?
*What are my paramount operational requirements?
*What are mandatory Health & Safety requirements?
*What about battery disposal and current legislations?
*What about productive solar systems?
Other services
Battery Applications, Investigations & Charging, standby/Solar Systems Design & Investigation, Technology and Intellectual Property Evaluation, Anonymous Procurement and/or Evaluation of Batteries and/or Control Systems for Assessment by or for clients, Marketing & Market Research, Failure Mode Analysis, Regulatory Compliance.
