Voltage Depression - An abnormal drop in voltage below expected values during the discharge of a battery.
Desorption - The opposite of absorption, whereby the material retained by a medium or another material is released.
Load power - Apparent power Pu that the UPS inverter supplies under given load conditions. It is less than or equal to the rated output Pn. The ratio Pu/Pn defines the % load of the inverter.
Micro-outage (or micro-interruption) - Total loss in the supply of power for 10 ms.
Anode - The electrode in an electrochemical cell where oxidation takes place. During discharge, the negative electrode of the cell is the anode. During charge, the positive electrode is the anode.
End Voltage (also see Cutoff Voltage) - The prescribed voltage at which the discharge (or charge, if end-of-charge voltage) of a battery may be considered complete.
Current (float) - DC current that maintains the battery at nominal charge, corresponding the float voltage. This current compensates open circuit losses.
