| Battery Cell Voltage Generator SS 7081-50 | |
| Easily and Accurately Evaluate Battery Management Systems Used with Lithium-Ion Battery Packs Instrument Simulates Batteries so Users can Efficiently Build Testing Environments |
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| The SS7081-50 is a 12-channel generator and measuring instrument that can easily and accurately evaluate the performance of battery management systems (BMSs) used in lithium-ion battery packs1 found in electric vehicles (xEVs) and storage batteries (energy storage systems [ESSs] and uninterruptible power systems [UPSs]).As a simulated battery and voltage generator, the device facilitates performance and safety evaluation by making it possible to efficiently build an environment for testing parameters that would be difficult to reproduce with actual batteries, power supplies, or electronic loads.
In addition, the instrument provides high-precision voltage and current measurement capability so that researchers and developers can evaluate increasingly sophisticated BMS functionality. |
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■ KEY FEATURES
1. Ability to efficiently build a testing environment by simulating batteries The ST7081-50 can be used in place of an actual battery, power supply, or electronic load as a simulated battery/voltage generator and simulator. BMS boards are connected to battery cells, whose capacity and other parameters they monitor. Battery cells exhibit individual differences in capacity due to differences in the operating environment and to manufacturing variations. Differences in capacity prevent adequate charging, making it impossible to take full advantage of the battery. BMS boards address this issue by eliminating variability when individual cells exhibit imbalances in terms of capacity. Difficulty arises when evaluating the performance of those systems because it is difficult to create the desired state of imbalance with actual batteries. Because it lets the user set or simulate cell conditions as desired using a computer application, the SS7081-50 makes it possible to build a BMS test environment efficiently and easily. In addition, each SS7081-50 unit offers 12 channels. Multiple units, each capable of simulating 12 cells, can be connected together to create a multi-cell environment. This capability eliminates the cost of preparing numerous power supplies and electronic loads as well as the time that would be required to wire them together and fabricate large systems capable of controlling them.
2. High-precision voltage and current measurement capability and support for measurement of minuscule currents The SS7081-50 delivers high-precision voltage (±0.01% rdg. ±100 μV) and current (±0.07% rdg. ±100 μA) measurement capabilities to make possible more accurate evaluation of increasingly sophisticated BMS boards. It also provides a 100 μA (0.1 mA) minuscule current range that is ideal for measuring dark current2 and standby current3. BMS boards draw their power from connected battery cells. It is important to ascertain BMS dark current and standby current in order to limit battery power consumption. The SS7081-50’s minuscule current range can make these measurements with a high degree of precision.
3. Easy and safe simulation of wire breaks The SS7081-50 can simulate wire breaks in the cable that connects the BMS to its battery. Use of actual batteries to evaluate BMS boards poses difficulties such as the need to fabricate specially designed test rigs and safety issues. With the SS7081-50, you can easily and safely simulate wire breaks that would be difficult to replicate with an actual battery, making it possible to evaluate the target BMS board’s anomaly detection functionality. The SS7081-50 offers extensive functionality for simulating other defects so that users can evaluate safety from a variety of standpoints.
■ PRINCIPAL APPLICATIONS
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