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MIDTRONICS/BATTERY MANAGEMENT
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Midtronics equipment is a standard for power maintenance at most telecommunications service providers worldwide and is used by power facilities, cable television/broadband operators and data centers where power availability is mandatory. Designed with ease of use, efficiency and accuracy at the forefront, Midtronics battery management products are the new standard for successful battery management. |
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Handhelds
The Midtronic’s handhelds provide a less expensive way of testing the health of a battery by using the device to test each battery block and compare to known data. The handheld range is an excellent tool for service organizations that have contracts on urban and rural sites that require the battery condition to be tested. The handheld negates the need to take heavy and expensive discharge and charging equipment to site and carry out full capacity checks.
Permanent Battery Monitoring
For mission critical sites that require the condition of their battery to be known at all times, Midtronic’s “CellGuard” battery monitoring allows for each battery block to be monitored in real time and report back to a control point via an Ethernet connection. Each of the Cellguards are connected to the battery terminals and communicate via radio to the controller reducing costs by not having to run cables. |
Midtronics Battery Testing and Monitoring
Alco is the Australian and New Zealand agent for the Midtronics Battery Monitoring and Handheld equipment. Midtronics manufacturers a full range of both handheld and permanent battery monitoring equipment using “Conductance Testing”
Originally developed at the University of Minnesota, and commercialized by Motorola in the 1970s, conductance technology has become the most widely accepted and used method for rapid and non-invasive lead acid battery analysis.
Through years of laboratory and field-based research, conductance has been found to correlate with battery capacity as measured in a timed discharge test. This correlation is nearly linear, meaning that if conductance can be measured, timed-discharge capacity can be predicted as a function of the change in conductance. Since voltage and specific gravity testing are not indicators of the battery’s ability to provide capacity (nor are they predictive), timed discharge testing is time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore impedance testing does not correlate linearly with discharge capacity. Conductance technology is a rapid, effective and preferred alternative. |
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