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CCTV & Alarm Battery Backup in Gauteng
Need an alarm power supply with battery backup in Gauteng? Security installers covering Gauteng and Gauteng can replace alarm batteries, fit 12 V camera supplies with backup, put your NVR and PoE switch on a UPS and check the electric fence energiser battery. Ask for a test with the mains off.
The main CCTV and alarm battery backup page explains the equipment, the safety points and the costs in more detail.
Gauteng notes on ups & portable power
Home offices in Northcliff, Edenvale and Garsfontein lean on router UPS units and small power stations for video calls when the fibre box drops. IT dealers around Sandton, Rosebank and Hatfield supply line-interactive UPS units for desktops and rack UPS units for server cupboards. Security companies in Alberton and Boksburg fit battery backed 12 V supplies so cameras, alarm panels and electric fences stay up when the street goes dark.
Backing up in Gauteng
Electricity in Gauteng reaches most homes through the metros: City Power in Johannesburg, the City of Tshwane and the City of Ekurhuleni, while Eskom supplies Soweto, parts of Sandton and Midrand and many townships directly. Load shedding is quieter than it was, yet cable theft, overloaded mini substations and violent Highveld thunderstorms still black out whole suburbs, sometimes for days while a fault is traced. Most households want the wifi, lights, TV, fridge, gate and alarm kept going, usually with a 5 kVA hybrid inverter and a 48V lithium module. Estates, offices and small server rooms ask for larger 3 phase systems. Summer lightning is the biggest danger to electronics here, so make surge protection part of every quote.
The requests we see from Gauteng usually come from:
- Homeowners: a healthy alarm battery, backup for the cameras and the recorder on a UPS
- Complexes, estates and body corporates: backup for the guard hut, boom cameras, the perimeter fence and the control room
- Offices and home offices: alarm and access control batteries plus a UPS for the camera recorder
Local tips for Gauteng
Most asked for in Gauteng: hybrid inverters with 48V lithium modules for houses, estates and home offices. Where installers and battery shops work from: installers and battery shops in Midrand, Randburg, Centurion, Kempton Park and Germiston. A useful tip: ask for surge protection on both the supply and the solar side, listed on the quote.
CCTV & Alarm Battery Backup usually suits alarm panels, cameras, NVRs, electric fences, and works like this: 12 V supplies with batteries, UPS for the NVR. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a healthy alarm battery, backup for the cameras and the recorder on a UPS. On the weather side: violent summer storms and lightning; cold, dry winter nights in unheated garages.
Service area: Gauteng and surrounds
Across Gauteng our network reaches Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Sedibeng, West Rand, Midrand, Centurion and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether an installer charges travel per kilometre or a fixed call out.