Abdx Battery Discharger

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REASONS TO TEST YOUR BATTERIES

What is the capacity of your battery just now?
When will you have to change your battery?
What can you do to improve the life expectancy for your battery?

These are the principal questions because you should perform discharge test to your batteries.
The batteries are composed of electrochemical cells. The fabrication technology for these products is complex, so it is not strange to find manufacturing faults.
On the other hand, the degradation of the batteries is inevitable.
In order to avoid unexpected costs stem from a fail in your batteries, it is important to schedule preventive maintenance for batteries in your company.
That’s why it is so advisable to know the answer to the previous questions at every time.
The BATTERY DISCHARGE TEST is the most simple and efficient way to analyse the main parameters of your batteries.

ABDX FEATURES

The ABDX battery discharger purpose is to check the efficiency of any type of battery. It is a versatile device, based on MOSFET or IGBT technology (depending on the size of the ...
... discharger), it can be used with batteries of any technology and voltage/capacity.
The ABDX controls automatically the discharge current and keep it constant, so the total capacity of the battery can be easily calculated once the test is finished.

The following test parameters must be introuced before performing the test:

Stop voltage
Maximum time allowed for test
Discharge current

Then, the test runs automatically until the STOP VOLTAGE or MAXIMUM TIME is reached.

The following parameters can be visualized on the display during the test:

Capacity discharged
Time
Battery voltage
Current
Programmed stop voltage

It is easy to download the test data to a computer and to make graphics and reports with the provided software.

STANDARD ABDX UNITS

VOLTAGE - CURRENT RANGE
12-48V - 0-100A
12-48V - 0-200A
12-80V - 0-150A
12-80V - 0-200A
12-96V - 0-100A
12-96V - 0-150A
12-96V - 0-200A
24-135V - 0-150A
48-240V - 75A
48-400V - 40A
600V - 15A

*Other voltages and currents avaliable on request

PRINCIPAL BATTERY TYPES

Lead acid

Nickel-cadmium battery

Both supported by ABDX Battery Discharger

Typical FAILS IN BATTERIES

SULFATION (LEAD ACID)
CARBONATION (NICKEL-CADMIUM)

GRID CORROSION
EMBEDDED SEDIMENTS
CONDUCTOR CORROSION

These situations lead to a gradual loss of the battery capacity, which can be easily detected by performing a BATTERY DISCHARGE TEST.

ADVICE

Periodically perform battery discharge tests and impedance tests.

A typical period is 25% of life expectancy for the battery.

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