Arbin battery test equipment

Battery Voltage up to 100V
Battery Current up to 2500A
A variety of standard and customized solutions are available

Arbin offers battery testing systems for basic charge/discharge cycling, and simulating complex real-world applications such as drive profiles, telecomm pulses, or other custom profiles.

Arbin’s Laboratory Battery Testing (LBT) series commercializes technology established during a 3‐year ARPA E project developing ultra‐high precision testing systems.  This product consists of independent potentiostat/galvanostat channels for testing batteries and other electrochemical devices, and is intended to provide an economical solution for applications requiring high‐precision measurements and fast data sampling. All Arbin testing systems come with a PC preloaded with our MITS 7 and Data Watcher software for creating test profiles, real‐time data monitoring, and data plotting & analysis.

Primary Applications:

• Life Cycle Testing
• Smulation of real-world test profiles
• Cranking amp tests
• R&D of batteries for electric vehicle and grid storage applications
• Validate 3rd part charger or internal battery management system (BMS) using CANBus or SMBus protocols

General Specifications:

Measurement Resolution: 16-bit (1 part in 65,536)
Measurement Precision: <100ppm
Control Accuracy: <0.02%
Minimum Step Time: 5ms
Data Logging Rate: 2000 points per second, per system
Connection for PC: TCP/IP (Ethernet)
Ventilation Method: air-cooled with variable speed fans

Key Features:

• Fully independent high precision test channels with full potentiostatic, galvanostatic control
• Uses true Bipolar Linear circuitry providing cross‐zero linearity and zero switching time between charge and discharge
• Each channel provides 3 current ranges with 16‐bit resolution
• Powerful embedded controllers provide fast data logging (2000 points per second, per system ) and control flexibility for the most advanced test requirements
• Any number of channels can be operated in parallel for increased current‐handling capacity
• Simulate real-world profiles directly from data files with no programming required
• Communicate with internal battery management system (BMS) via CANBus or SMBus protocols
• Systems are air-cooled so no additional facility infrastructure or regular maintenance is needed.
• Arbin’s advanced software package, MITS 7.0, provides flexible scheduling, a user‐friendly interface, distributed system control, and data acquisition
• Software provides easy data analysis and plotting based in Data Watcher and Microsoft Excel
• A wide array of auxiliary inputs/outputs are available for additional data collection or control such as temperature monitoring, additional reference electrodes, and more
  

Safety:

• Multiple levels of fusing are provided inside the system for protection as the channel/board and power supply levels.
• Each channel module has a fully redundant microcontroller dedicated for safety monitoring.
• Arbin’s software has safety functions for entire tests, and for individual steps within a test to help the user avoid overcharging, over‐discharging, over‐heating, etc.
• Tests begin with a built‐in safety check of all control values.

Arbin Instruments provides a wide variety of auxiliary modules for expanding the capability of the main charge/discharge control circuitry. Modules can either be placed in the main chassis, or in a small external chassis. This also makes it easy to add auxiliary options to existing systems.

Auxiliary Voltage – Used as additional reference electrodes to measure voltage.
Temperature Thermocouple/Thermistor – Used to record temperature as well as control the test schedule
MTCI (Chamber Interface) – Interface with a 3rd party temperature chamber so Arbin software can turn chamber on/off and adjust temperature
Digital I/O – Send and receive a simple on/off signal to interact with external devices.
Analog I/O – Control any device operating on a 0(2)‐10V signal.
CANBus – Communicate with internal pack circuitry using CANBus protocols.
UPS – Uninterrupted power supply for PC so tests can resume automatically after brief power outages.
Battery Connections – A variety of battery holders are available for cylindrical cells, flat/pouch cells, and more.
RSMS – Fully redundant safety monitoring systems that can disconnect the device being tested in case of failure.
Shunt – high-precision shunt may be used for calibration of your Arbin system.