EV/HEV battery test system uses regenerative technology for energy recovery

Intepro Systems offers their advanced benchtop/rack mount Procyon Battery Test System for engineering design and production testing of high-performance electro mobility battery packs. The system uses the company's innovative bi-directional charge/discharge regenerative power stage that returns over 93% of the power to the AC mains, lowering operating costs, reducing system size and removing/reducing external cooling needs. The system uses the company's 'fill-in-the blanks' PowerStar Test Sequencer software to aid test setup and operation. PowerStar offers Programming without Coding that enables users to define the charge and drive profiles unique to their vehicles or a specific standard. Internal resistance measurements and cell balancing can be performed as required. The design offers a scalable solution for battery packs from 5kW to 480kW, with voltages from 40V to 1,500V and discharge currents up to 8,000A. “Recovering the energy in the battery charge/discharge cycle utilising our systems’ regenerative stage dramatically reduces energy costs,” said Gerard Sheehan, Intepro's chief technical officer. “It also eliminates the installation and operational costs for air- or water-cooled loads to dissipate all that energy.”