Can Appliances Supported With A Battery Backup System Be Replaced?

As your facility grows and acquires new equipment, you might wonder whether your battery backup generator will still work with the new appliances.

Here's the good news: Thanks to better technology, appliances often become more efficient over time and use less power. This means your backup generator is likely to handle new appliances just fine.

However, it's always a good idea to talk to an expert before buying new equipment to make sure your generator will work with it.

Expanding a Battery Backup Generator

In some cases, while your system may be able to handle the wattage of a new appliance, its runtime may suffer. If your facility requires a greater runtime, instead of buying a new system, there may be another option.

Medi Products' “Retrofit Kit” allows you to expand the number of batteries in your system and increase your runtime. Self-installed, it has all the batteries, cabinets, and necessary hardware to provide reliable backup power for as long as you need it.

In some cases, you may be able to purchase and install a Medi Products “retrofit kit,” which will allow you to expand the number of batteries in your system and increase your runtime—aiding in accessing reliable backup power for as long as you need.

[Learn more about adding batteries after you’ve purchased your system here.]

However, a retrofit kit will not increase the wattage of your system. This is because it only expands the storage capacity, not the strength of a system's inverter. The size and wattage of a system's inverter will dictate how much energy is sent to appliances. Much like a car, if you increase the size of the gas tank (i.e., the batteries), you'll be able to drive for longer. But because you have not increased the engine size (i.e., the inverter), the car is not any more powerful.