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Originally Posted by retepsnikrep
Bloody hell Ron that looks expensive.
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That one is an 8 channel unit and costs $15,000 plus freight from Asia. It consumes up to 8,000 watts (and can dissipate 8,000 as well). I can't afford to buy it or upgrade my electrical service for it, so I'm getting a single channel model.
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Originally Posted by retepsnikrep
So it is a charger and discharger for upto twelve cells sticks.
How many channels does it have? Will you be using it on MK1 packs?
Do you have any technical information on it?
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It is up to 20 volts at up to 50 amps. My single channel unit will be in a 4U case and will charge-discharge-IR test a good quality Gen I stick in about 30 minutes with a cooldown period in between or 15 minutes without cooldown. (A GenII stick would take 45 or 30 minutes.) My current discharge-only testing takes about 15 minutes per stick without charge testing. Also, the IR testing should do away with my one week self-discharge testing and shave a week or more off a repair.
Better tools make a better quality repair. Now I have to see if I need to test at multiple amperages. I know that I can find defects at 30 and 50 amps that I can't find at 10, but the inverse may also be true.
But, I still need to recondition prior to testing, and (Mike are you listening?) I still need to charge up the pack just prior to shipping.
