Difference between inverter battery and automotive battery

Are inverter batteries and automotive batteries are the same? Can they be used interchangeably? If these questions sound familiar to you, then this article is for you. Unfortunately, most of the dealers are not technically sound enough to answer this question. Let us help you. For the starters, there is a huge difference between batteries made for vehicles such as car, trucks etc. and batteries made for UPS, inverter system and other power backup solution.

Before delving deeper, let us understand the fundamental difference between the utilization of abovementioned kinds of batteries. Automotive batteries power vehicles such as cars, buses and trucks are built to supply a huge amount of current for a very short period of time. It is generally for a few seconds for starting up the engine. Cranking the engine is the major task of an Automotive Battery and not anything else. Once the engine starts running, the alternator takes care of every power requirement and also recharges the battery up to its full capacity quickly.

Whereas inverter batteries, on the other hand, are engineered to continuously provide a minimally set amount of current for a longer period of time. The battery, as usually, stores the charge in Direct Current or DC form. The inverter system attached to it changes the stored DC power into AC or Alternating Current form, as most of our electrical devices are designed to run on AC. Now to achieve this, the UPS or inverter battery is discharged over a much longer time period as opposed to much lower potential as compared to vehicle or automotive batteries. It is due to this quality that inverter and UPS batteries are also known as Deep Cycle Batteries.

Okaya –The powerhouse of batteries

 Okaya has been a leading manufacturer of batteries in India for the last three decades. As the market changed, it kept on adding to its portfolio. Today, apart from inverter batteries, Okaya offers world-class Car Battery, e-rickshaw batteries, lithium batteries, solar inverter batteries, etc. Log on to www.okayapower.com to go through the product portfolio of Okaya and buy batteries online.