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!

 

   
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Applications
Common Options
Circuit Types

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    
       
 

Common Options

     
  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.      
       
 

Applications

     
  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.      
               
 

Circuit Types Overview

   
   
Circuit Technology Linear Bipolar Linear Unipolar PWM
Maximum Voltage of Application Below 60V 40 - 120V 100 - 600V
Range of Current Available <----------------------------------1uA - 4000A--------------------------------->
Relative Power Low to Medium Power Medium to High Power

High Power (up to 250kW)

Typical Accuracy (FS) 0.02 - 0.1% 0.05 - 0.1% 0.15 - 0.25%
Circuit Attributes Fast Response Time

Highest Accuracy

Zero Switching Time

Maximum Performance

Fast Response Time

High Accuracy

Short Switching Time

Lower Cost per Watt

Regenerative Power Supply

High Accuracy

Low Voltage Ripple

Fast Response Time

Lowest Cost per Watt

Switching Time Between Charge and Discharge None 100-200ms None
Typical Voltage Ripple None None Less than 1% FS
Products Served BT2000

MSTAT

SCTS

EVTS

BT2000

SCTS

 

 

BT2000

SCTS

EVTS

   
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
               

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