Arbin Instruments

Arbin Instrument’s designs and manufactures low powered test stations specifically in mind for materials research and development. Arbin’s MSTAT Test Stations were first introduced in 1991, designed for pure electrochemical research with both voltage and current control.  Arbin manufactures extremely reliable and stable potentiostat/galvanostat test equipment with the highest specifications for accuracy and resolution on the market today. 

The MSTAT provides both standard and customized solutions ranging in power for any application, with equipment ranging from 4 channels up to 96 per chassis.  The MSTAT provides three current ranges per channel to allow for a wide range of testing applications including:

1. Electrochemical Research & Development
2. Half Cell Testing
3. Materials Research
4. Cathode & Anode Research
5. Multi-Electrode Testing
6. Lithium Battery Cycling

Each channel in the chassis operates as an independent potentiostat/galvanostat channel enabling users to run tests on multiple devices at the same time. Arbin’s modular design and structure ensures reliability and ease of maintenance.

The MSTAT is designed for constant operation year-round using Arbin’s robust hardware design.

Arbin’s hardware design allows for extremely flexible specifications in terms of the voltage range, and the current ranges for the test channels.  The MSTAT can be custom designed to meet the parameters of any experiment, or test schedule.

 Providing Battery Test Stations ranging from single cells to modules to large packs, Arbin can design a test station that will fit your requirements

 Hardware Features:

• Completely Independent Channels allow users to run multiple independent tests simultaneously without affecting what is happening on the other channels
• Industry Leading Accuracy up to 0.02% for low power applications
• Current Rise Times as fast as 10us allowing for extremely reliable testing and response rates
• Potentiostatic/Galvanostatic Functionality enables each channel to run advanced electrochemical experiments with both voltage and current control
• Four-Point Kelvin Probe Connection for all main channels
• Plug and Play Channel and Auxiliary Modules for easy expansion and maintenance. This allows users the flexibility to have your test station grow as your testing requirements grow.
• 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

• Multi-Electrode Experiments

  MSTAT can perform tests using individual counter and reference electrodes for comparative experiments.



• Multi-Electrode Experiments

  MSTAT can perform tests using a working electrode array and a common counter electrode.



• General Electrochemistry R&D Techniques

  MSTAT can perform techniques such as cyclic voltametery, chronopotentiometry, linear sweep voltammetry, chronocoulometry, potentiodynamic polarization, potentiostatic polarization, cyclic polarization, galvanodynamic polarization, and galvanostatic polarization.



• Near Limitless Research and Development Potential

  With Arbin Instruments powerful MITS Pro software, users can program very basic to very complex schedules using the simple boolean logic scheduling process.

• High Speed Pulse allows the user to use GSM, CDMA, IDEN pulse types or custom design their own sub-second pulse profiles. Each pulse can have up to 10 stages and the pulse can be run once or repeated as in mobile phone applications.
• Smart Battery is used to communicate with smart batteries using SMBus 1.1 or 2.0 (please specify at time of order).  This feature will allow users to read/write registers on the smart battery as well as compare data collected from the smart battery with data that the Arbin system measures directly.
• External Charger/Load allows the user to connect his own charger or load to the system and program the MSTAT to charge/discharge using his charger/load at a predetermined step in the test schedule.  The system internally and automatically connects the battery to the charger/load.  During the External Charge/Load step, the Arbin system collects data about the charger/load performance.
• 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.

Contact Arbin to learn how we can customize a system for you!

Arbin’s engineers have developed and standardized a number of testing solutions that can fit several common applications based on industry research and feedback from our customers.