APC Replacement Battery Cartridge #176

The main purpose of the Replacement Battery Cartridges (RBCs) is to provide replacement battery packs in APCbranded Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs).

The functional unit is to provide 28.8 Amp Hour (Ah) of electrical storage to support back up power to diverse UPS models for 5 years using valve regulated, sealed lead acid batteries.

This range consists of Replacement Battery Cartridges that range in capacity from 3.2 Ah to 330 Ah. The representative product used for the analysis is RBC12 APC Replacement Battery Cartridge #12.

The product range consists of products with the following model numbers: (APC)RBC(XXX)(Y-YY) where APC is optional, XXX is any number from 001 to 999 and (Y) are option designators. Note that Y-LI and Y-NMH are designators reserved for RBCs with Lithium polymer and Nickel Metal Hydride battery chemistries and are not

included in this product range.

The environmental impacts of this referenced product are representative of the impacts of the other products of the range which are developed with a similar technology. The environmental analysis was performed in conformity with ISO 14040.