ACS Battery Test Chambers

Battery Test Chambers, Environmental Chambers

Product Overview

The storage of electrical energy has always posed a technological challenge.

Even though there have been significant developments over the past decade, the challenge is still on, with the goalposts being moved continuously by the new needs emerging in various application sectors, such as the necessity for increasingly compact, lightweight batteries for electronic devices and for storing in limited spaces the large quantity of energy required by electric traction.

The most recent ideas have come, in fact, from the automobile sector and the research being carried on for the development of electric and hybrid cars, with the aim of reducing CO₂ emissions. Among the various solutions identified, lithium batteries have proved to be the most suitable instrument for achieving this aim, even if further experimentation will be necessary to consolidate such a technology.

Test safety

Tests on batteries can generate potentially dangerous situations, since they are carried out by simulating the limit conditions that may occur when there is a transfer of energy from the battery to the electric motor or during the battery’s fast recharge phase. These situations, in fact, may generate strong overheating or the formation of dangerous atmospheres.

To handle and solve these problems, our chambers are equipped with all the instruments necessary for monitoring potentially dangerous parameters and the following main devices which are activated to reduce risk conditions:

Smoke sensor
Dangerous gas (H₂; O₂; CO; …) sensors
Stabilization system
Flame extinguishing system

Markets

Automotive

Models

BASIC VERSION - CLIMATIC AND THERMOSTATIC MODEL - Field T -70/+180°C - DM340 C (T) DM600 C (T) DM1200 C (T) DM1600 C (T)
ES VERSION - CLIMATIC AND THERMOSTATIC MODEL - Field T -70/+180°C - DM340 C (T) ES DM600 C (T) ES DM1200 C (T) ES
ESS VERSION - CLIMATIC AND THERMOSTATIC MODEL - Field T -70/+180°C - DM 250 C (T) ESS DM 500 C (T) ESS DM 1000 C (T) ESS DM 1400 C (T) ESS

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Battery Test Chambers

Data Sheet

Battery Test Chambers Brochure

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Technical Specifications
The technical data sheet for battery test chambers changes according to the accessories that will be selected for your hazard level.

Download the accessories table based on the reference hazard level.

To download the technical data sheets for the chambers in the standard configuration, click on the model you are interested in:
- DM
- DM stability test
- DM ES (5K/min)
- DM ESS (10-15K/min)
- FM (energy saving)
Key Features
These chambers can be supplied with the new ecological refrigerant gas R472B, having a GWP of 526.

The product range for battery testing was developed in accordance with the hazard levels defined by EUCAR, where each hazard level is associated with a series of accessories to prevent it.

Once the hazard level has been established in accordance with the EUCAR table, to obtain complete protection it is recommended that the equipment be provided with all the devices required for that specific level and those below it.

BENEFITS
- The compact body in RAL 7044 grey provides excellent corrosion protection with a powder coated finish
- The electromagnetic door lock provides maximum operator safety
- Ecological refrigerant gas in line with the European Regulation 517/2014
- 10” touchscreen panel with an intuitive, user-friendly interface
- New software that allows remote control of all chamber functions
Automatic reporting, self-diagnosis, preventive maintenance
- Optical/acoustic alarm
- GN2 or compressed air purging with flowmeter
- Oxigen monitoring sensor
- H2 monitoring sensor
- CO monitoring sensor
- CO2 protection system
- Pressure relief blow-out port
Configuration
- Inspection window
- Ecological refrigerant gas in line with the European Regulation 517/2014
- Internal light
- Wheels and feet
Options
- Additional portholes
- Water-cooled condenser
- UPS for the PLC
- Stainless steel internal shelves
- Notched porthole
- New R472B refrigerant gas
- MyAngel24™: the Interactive Support System
- WinKratos S/W
Control System
Control System

The chamber is equipped with a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) for managing all the chamber’s functions and safety interlocks.

The chamber basic control is supplied by Weazy™, a very flexible HMI accessible on the 10 inch on board display.

WinKratos (optional) allows the complete management of the chamber functions: from manual control to the creation (through the graphic editor) of test profiles, including monitoring and recording, processing, graphical representation and analysis of data.

MyAngel24™ (optional) is the Advanced Services Platform developed by ACS to offer fast, effiicient and secure remote activities, allowing Automatic Reporting and Preventive Maintenance.

Weazy™ main features:
- Ethernet connection to the chamber
- Visualization of measures and recordings
- High configurability of chamber parameters
- Program and Manual chamber operation modes
- Delayed start of a program
- Automatic notifications of events and alarms
- 7 days data storage
- System available in several languages
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