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power_booster - 13588 Power Boosters

Solartron's range of power boosters, in combination with single or multi-channel potentiostats, enables high performance electrochemical tests to be run on a wide range of energy storage devices and electrochemical cells. High performance... For DC tests...

These power boosters are designed to operate with Solartron single and multi-channel potentiostats. An extensive range of DC techniques are available for use with these boosters: â—— Floating design - enables tests on grounded cells â—— potentiostatic / galvanostatic â—— cyclic voltammetry â—— Simultaneous DC and impedance tests on short stack fuel cells and individual cells within the stack (depending on potentiostat capability) â—— ohmic drop

Applications include:

â—— high-speed voltage / current pulse techniques (e.g. for testing GSM mobile phone and satellite communication energy storage devices) â—— Development of energy sources for laptop PCs, mobile phones and power tools. â—— Choice of models with up to 50V / 25A range â—— Fuel cell and supercapacitor research for electric vehicle or standby power. â—— 100kHz impedance measurement bandwidth for SOFC and other high frequency applications

For impedance...

The following impedance analysis techniques are available depending on the chosen configuration of potentiostat and FRA: â—— Battery research including the new generation 42V lead acid automotive batteries. â—— Automatically controlled by the potentiostat â—— Electrochemical etching and electroplating. â—— Swept sine analysis - for ultimate accuracy and repeatability â—— Multi-sine / Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) - for fast impedance analysis â—— Harmonic analysis - for optimisation of stimulus levels and detection of noise and interferenceThe frequency range of the power booster is 10µHz to 100kHz allowing a wide range of energy storage devices to be characterized over their full frequency range.

Software

These power boosters are fully integrated with the full range of Solartron single and multi-channel software packages. All scaling factors and control issues are taken care of by the software.