EVTS - Electric Vehicle Testing System

Arbin Instruments’ EVTS is an automatic system for testing high power Electric Vehicle (EV) and Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) batteries, packs, and modules.

EVTS is capable of advanced charge and discharge regimes using a plethora of unique control types. One of the most popular features of EVTS is the simulation control type which allows the system to charge or discharge the pack by mimicking the actual vehicle in the lab. Simulation control allows users to easily program advanced test profiles such as Federal Urban Drive Schedule (FUDS) or Dynamic Stress Tests (DST) without writing complex test protocols/schedules.

EVTS is easily the most advanced and comprehensive EV and HEV testing system available in the market today!

Features

• Flexible Control Types including constant current, voltage, load and power; as well as, linear ramp, staircase, formula and other control profiles

• Completely Independent Channels allow users to run multiple independant tests simultaneously without affecting what is happening on the other channels

• Industry Leading Accuracy up to 0.02% for low power applications

• Simulation Control allows users to easily simulate complex real-world device operation

• Dynamic Data Acquisition allows user to capture data in a differnet manner for each step based on change in time, voltage, and/or current - minimizing data file size

• Plug and Play Modules for easy expansion and maintenance

• Channel Paralleling allows users to parallel several of the main channels together to increase the current handling capability of the system

• Multiple Current Ranges for improved accuracy over a wide range of testing conditions

• Dual Voltage Ranges available upon request

• Cross Zero Linearity allows system to switch from charge to discharge instantly without switching delay

• Temperature Chamber Interface allows the user to integrate the MSTAT system with a temperature chamber and controller. This allows the system to set the temperature set points and ramps seperately in each step for completely automated control. No more trying to time the temperature setpoints seperately...

• Auxiliary Voltage Channels can be used for numerous applications but the most common is to measure individual cell voltages within a pack. They can also be used to measure and monitor a reference or working electrode in a multi-electrode experiment.

• Auxiliary Temperature Channels can be used to measure and record temperature data. They can be inserted into the pack or cell or just used to measure room temperature. Arbin offers both thermocouple and thermistor options.

For more information visit, Arbin's Auxiliaries and Options page.

• Life Cycle Testing
  
  EVTS can perform charge/discharge cycling of batteries or modules to obtain charge and discharge capacity, energy, DC internal resistance, and other valuable information.

• Dynamic Stress Testing
  
  EVTS effectively performs dynamic power charge/discharge using the standard Dynamic Stress Test (DST) procedures set by the US Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC).

• Federal Urban Drive Schedule (FUDS)
  
  EVTS can perform the Federal Urban Drive Schedule test established by USABC through use of simulation control. This feature is available for PWM and Bipolar circuit types.

• Partial Discharge Test
  
  EVTS can run a series of partial discharges to see what effect these partial discharges have on the batteries capacity.

• Sustained Hill-Climb Test
  
  EVTS can run constant power tests, as well as simulated power tests, to simulate a sustained hill-climb.

• Thermal Performance Test
  
  EVTS, coupled with a temperature chamber, can effectively run thermal performance tests. A temperature chamber interface can be added to allow Arbin’s MITS Pro software to control a third party chamber.

• Cold Cranking Test
  
  EVTS, coupled with a temperature chamber, can effectively simulate cold cranking conditions through the use of current, power, or simulation.

• Reserve Capacity Test
  
  EVTS can perform a constant current discharge to see how long a useful voltage can be maintained on the battery.

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