Sustainability is no longer just a thought but a widely accepted approach to enhancing eco-friendliness in homes and offices. Nigerian homes are not an exception either, but strategic management of renewable energy can be widely observed across the country. In a country where power outages form significant aspects of daily life, sustainable energy consumption is necessary.
If you are unfamiliar with solar inverter batteries, we can offer you comprehensive guidance. At Star Plus Battery, we ensure a maximum and consistent power supply to your homes. However, the lack of proper maintenance will significantly decrease the performance of your solar inverter battery.
In this blog, we’ll discuss five effective ways to care for your solar inverter battery. So, when you buy a solar inverter battery, maintenance can seem like a cakewalk.
6 Tried and Tested Solar Battery Maintenance Tips
1. Check Connections to Secure
Connections of your inverter batteries need to be secured to avoid short circuits. Overloading or undercharging can cause severe damage to the internal structure of your inverter battery. As a result, the lifespan of your solar inverter battery might gradually reduce, irrespective of having a robust construction.
2. Check Charge Levels
Secondly, you need to check the existing charge levels of your solar inverter battery. Monitor the State of Charge (SOC) and try to keep the charge levels between 40% to 80%. Once the charge levels of your inverter battery are maintained, the charging and discharging levels will automatically be regulated.
Check the charge levels weekly once to prevent drastic drops. Maintain proper logs of your battery’s charge levels to predict any early issues of battery damage. This will also enable your solar inverter battery charger to stay stable without getting overheated.
3. Position Solar Panels Properly
Your solar panels need to be appropriately positioned so that peak sun hours are adequately captured and transferred across your electric networks. Consulting with your solar panel installers will help you properly position your panels and manage your electric supply.
The proper connection between charger plug-ins, batteries, and solar panels is necessary to avoid short circuits, overcharging, or underloading. It is also essential to know the number of solar panels required to charge your inverter batteries.
Individuals often fail to install an adequate number of solar panels. We can help you to choose the right number of solar panels and thereby reduce any overloading and undercharge of your inverter batteries.
4. Clean Your Solar Batteries Regularly
Solar batteries, like ordinary inverter batteries, need to be cleaned at regular intervals. The Nigerian climate varies, and sometimes, adverse climatic conditions cause inverter batteries to wear out. Check out for rust, dirt and dust deposition across your battery terminals and surfaces so that risks of sudden malfunction are treated correctly. Moreover, cleaning solar batteries regularly will detect any possibility of battery damage at an early stage.
5. Ensure Proper Ventilation
Proper ventilation is necessary across inverter battery storage spaces. The space need not possess a thermostat, but basic ventilated facilities can be adequate. Make sure the batteries are stored in a damp space or a place subjected to extreme heat or cold exposure.
Similarly, avoid storing your solar batteries inside refrigerators and never in an area with prominent water leaks. Proper ventilation will help air flow regulate the natural room temperature and prevent the battery from getting overheated.
6. Consider Replacement every 3 to 5 years
Proper maintenance of your solar inverter battery can extend its value above 5 years. However, owing to heavy usage in recent years, it is wise to replace it every 3 to 5 years. Our inverter batteries are generally designed to last longer and sustain loads without compromising performance.
In case of replacement, you are free to consult with us, and we will make sure that the installation suits all your needs. On the other hand, we can help you with constant inspection so that early detection can prevent sudden battery damage.
Here are some signs denoting that your inverter batteries need replacement soon:
- Reduced backup time than original capacity.
- Unable to clear corroded terminals.
- Damage to the battery casing
- Excessive swelling of batteries
- Batteries getting overheated or remaining undercharged
- Taking more time to get charged.
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In Conclusion
By following the abovementioned simple yet effective steps, you can actively take care of your solar inverter battery. We at Star Plus Battery can offer you the best maintenance guide and take care of your solar inverter batteries. Although our inverter batteries are designed to offer robustness, maintenance is also needed. So that, in the long run your homes and offices can sustain the rising demand for renewable power consumption.