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Turning Batteries into a Competitive Advantage

Join us in Denver August 3-4 for the leading international conference highlighting the latest developments impacting mobile, stationary and EV battery systems including smart phones, tablets, medical devices, critical power systems, telecom and automotive applications.

Sessions include:

• Batteries Will Eat the World, Cairn Energy Research Advisors

• GB 31421 – Meeting China’s New Battery Standard, SGS

• Intellectual Property Strategies for Solving Conflicts, Speeding Adoption and Rewarding Innovation, MPEG LA LLC

• Data-Driven Battery Product Development: Turn Battery Performance into a Competitive Advantage, Voltaiq, Inc.

• Smart 2.0 Battery Charging: The Future Is Near, University of Kansas

• Imaging Batteries Across Space and Time: Recent Progress in 2D, 3D and 4D, Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy

• Engineering Impacts on Battery Pack Manufacturing, iTECH

• The Advanced Manufacturing RoadMap for Batteries, CalCharge

• Quest for Battery Security, Authentication to the Rescue, Texas Instruments

• Compliance Considerations for Standby Power Systems, Enviroguard

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New Three Phase Industrial Battery Chargers for Transportation Applications
Applied Power Systems (APS), an industry leader in power conversion and energy storage solutions,  introduced its latest series of three phase industrial battery chargers for transportation applications.
The APS programmable SmartCharger series support multiple battery chemistries with customer selectable charge profiles to handle Lead-Acid, NiCad, NiMH and Li-Ion battery types. 

These compact, high frequency chargers employ an innovative design resulting in higher efficiency, while providing superior performance to low frequency, phase controlled chargers. These smaller, lighter chargers consume less power and offer improved input power factor, leading to reduced power consumption and energy costs.

Smart Charger series incorporate built in diagnostics with fault protection features along with an OLED display for improved usability.   Charger operating status and fault annunciation is displayed along with output voltage and current, which is also available via remote communication interface.

Rugged, reliable, field proven design is built to withstand the harsh environments of motive power applications.  Standard models accept three phase AC input with options available to accept DC input power.  Added options include an internal data logger with nonvolatile storage of operating history, downloadable to customer.

Applied Power Systems, Inc. is an industry leading manufacturer of advanced power conversion products, power electronic controls and high power semiconductor thermal management solutions. APS Power products include IGBT Inverter Stacks, AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC Converters, AC Phase Controllers, Battery Chargers, High Power Rectifier Bridges,  Power Supplies for on-board Rail Applications, Motor Drives & Controls, high power semiconductor assemblies and specialized inverter systems.

More information is available at www.appliedps.com.  

A New Partnership for a Growing Industry

Bitrode Corp. and Gamry Instruments are pleased to announce that the companies have entered into an agreement to partner in the development and sales of battery test equipment utilizing the strengths and technologies of both companies.

By working together in their unique strengths, Bitrode and Gamry have developed a “one stop” product capable of seamlessly integrating the Gamry Electromechanical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) measurement software into the Bitrode VisuaLCN program to simplify customer’s set-ups and measurement acquisition.  This integration can be done with existing equipment with simple firmware/software changes or integrated at the Bitrode manufacturing facility for a turnkey solution.

Bitrode Corp., based in St. Louis, Missouri, is the largest battery testing equipment manufacturer in North America and offers customers an extensive line of products engineered to address the specific requirements of every battery application and chemistry in use today.  Almost 60 years of progressive, innovative engineering have resulted in reliable, high performing, flexible designs that have set quality standards for the entire power storage industry. 

Gamry Instruments, based in Warminster, Pennsylvania, is the leading developer and manufacturer of systems for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy allowing users to address a variety of needs from research and development to QC/QA testing. 

For information on how to add the Gamry Instruments EIS measurement capability to your Bitrode test equipment, please contact Dave Beninato at 1-636-343-6112 or by email at Sales1@bitrode.com.

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