Arbin Auxiliaries Page

Auxiliaries and Options
Arbin Instruments provides a wide variety of auxiliary modules for expanding the capability of the main I, V control circuitry. Each module is of plug-in type to the bus board, which carries all communications and power distribution.
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Auxiliary Voltage
When testing a multi-cell battery pack, users can monitor individual cell voltages within the battery pack In electrochemsty, it allows users to control the full cell voltage with the Arbin’s main channel, while monitoring the voltage across the half cell using the auxiliary channel Voltage values can be recorded in the result file and/or used to further control experiments The illustration on the right shows an Electrochemical bath with multiple reference electrodes. More Information

Auxiliary Temperature

Allows users to monitor the temperature at any point in a test setup Temperature values can be used as safety limits in case of an over temperature condition Temperature values can be recorded in the result file as well as be used to further control the experiment More Information

Auxiliary Pressure
Ability to measure the pressure within a battery or any location in the test setup Values can be recorded in the result file and/or used to further control the experiment More information

Digital Input/Ouput
Allows the Arbin system to communicate with external devices via a simple on/off signal Inputs signals can be received from external devices, such as external alarms or sensors, in order to trigger unsafe condition on the cycler. Output Signals can be sent to external devices, such as external alarms, to notify the external device that a test has ended or a safety limit has been exceeded. The image on the right shows an example of an external alarm being activated. More Information

Auto-Calibration
Allows you to save time when calibrating systems exceeding 24 channels Option allows the Arbin Testing System to interface with a digital multimeter. System can go through and automatically calibrate all voltage and current ranges on each channel. Can also be used to calibrate auxiliary voltage inputs. Upon completion, the system will generate an as left and as found status report. More information

High Speed Pulse
		High Speed Pulse is a common feature for both the telecommunications and medical battery industries. This option provides the capability to run GSM, CDMA, TDMA or other custom designed pulses. High Speed pulse is defined as a millisecond/sub-millisecond repeated or single pulse profile. Click the image to your left for a zoomed in view. The graph displays results from a CDMA pulse test. More Information

Smart Battery
Smart battery is used to communicate with smart batteries using SMBus 1.1 or 2.0. This feature allows user to read/write registers on the smart battery as well compare data collected from the smart battery with data that the Arbin system measures directly. The image on the right shows two smart batteries connected to an Arbin Smart Battery Testing System. More Information

Temperature Chamber Interface
		Temperature Chamber Interface or TCI allows the Arbin System to communicate with a temperature chamber during testing. The TCI allows the user to program a different set point temperature for every step. This allows user to program dynamic temperature profiles to aid in simulating real world conditions. The illustration on the left shows the representation of how TCI interfaces with the Arbin hardware and Temperature Chamber. More Information

External Charge/Load
External Charge/Load is a useful option when qualifying chargers to be used with the batteries or studying load profiles. During the External Charge/Load step, the Arbin System passively collects data about the charge/load performance. The system then disconnects the charger/load once the preset limit is reached.