System Overview

The Battery Test System is designed to perform measurement functions within your overall battery test environment. A complete test solution includes third-party equipment integration for battery cyclers, thermal chambers, and chillers, as well as software designed to control the test environment.

A typical Battery Test System integration for a large-scale deployment includes the following components:

Figure 1. Battery Test System Components: Large-Scale Deployment

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  1. Cycler
  2. Chiller
  3. BTS-16101 measurement rack
  4. Environmental chamber
  5. Lab PC
  6. BTS Server
  7. Engineering PC(s)
Note The figure depicts a single-DUT test station.

Each of these components is defined as follows:

  • Cycler—Device to drive charge and discharge cycles of the DUT. Incorporate one cycler per DUT in each test station.
  • Chiller—Device to control the temperature of components within the test station. Incorporate one chiller per DUT in each test station.
  • BTS-16101 measurement rack—Core Battery Test System measurement hardware. Refer to Hardware Overview for more information.
  • Environmental chamber—Thermal chamber that contains one or more DUTs.

    The environmental chamber for your Battery Test System implementation may include optional FieldDAQ devices for in-chamber measurements. Refer to FieldDAQ Hardware for In-Chamber Measurements in the Battery Test System Hardware User Manual for more information.

  • Lab PC—PC and monitor for controlling a single test station; runs the measurement and control software for the test station, such as TestStand and VeriStand.
  • BTS Server—Central computer resource that provides storage for Battery Test System assets and runs the Battery Test System Web Server software that implements the Battery Test System Web UI. For purposes of this illustration, the BTS Server also functions as the SystemLink server for system management, user authentication, and test data collection. However, these can be different computers.
  • Engineering PC—Machine(s) that define and submit assets to the BTS Server for the Battery Test System Web UI, such as test definitions and plugins developed by test engineers or test station definitions and plugins developed by integrators.
  • Test Station—Overall single-instance set of test equipment.
    • Note For smaller deployments, the functionality of the Lab PC, BTS Server, and Engineering PC may be combined on fewer physical machines.