ZAHNER EL300, Installation & Operation Manual

Page 1: ...Electronic Loads Installation Operation Manual EL300 EL1000 03 2020...

Page 2: ...Cell connections 11 EL1000 operation steps 12 1 Full cell configuration 13 a Current setting in EL1000 13 2 a Half cell configuration Cathode 14 2 b Half cell configuration Anode 14 3 Partial cell con...

Page 3: ...the input panel of the device from electrostatic discharge This may damage the device Do not connect active objects such as batteries or fuel cells to the power outputs of the device when the device...

Page 4: ...sure that the device and all accessories are undamaged The shipment must contain the following parts EL1000 EL1000 cable for connection of the EPC42 D Sub9 Lemosa twisted sense cable Lemosa plug blue...

Page 5: ...4 EPC42 cards EPC42 The EPC42 is able to control up to 4 external devices like the EL300 EL1000 the XPOT and the PP201 211 241 Up to four EPC42 cards can be used for installing a total of 16 external...

Page 6: ...vice is present but has not been activated then the software starts to calibrate it automatically If an external device is changed then the new device has to be calibrated before use The calibration i...

Page 7: ...dow where different channels from the PAD4 cards can be chosen Here first 3 channels are selected which are analysing the individual cell of the DUT battery Also click on Enable Impedance to allow the...

Page 8: ...n OFF the electronic load EL before turning off the external load or external power supply 5 Properly connect with screws the EPC42 cable with the electronic load An accidental unplugging of the EPC42...

Page 9: ...possible It is also important to connect the DUT with the correct polarity to the EL potentiostat Whereas typical one cell voltages of 0 8 V or 1 2 V do not damage an EL when being connected with the...

Page 10: ...2 b Half cell configuration Anode This configuration is used with DUTs like rechargeable batteries and fuel cells if only the anodic part of the cell has to be investigated Potential 4 V 12 V The pot...

Page 11: ...on may be used if the voltage drop on the power lines is too high to reach the high current test conditions In addition it allows experiments on passive objects and batteries under charging conditions...

Page 12: ...use the EL1000 as a stand alone device unselect it in the Test Sampling page of the Thales software you may e g change the device number to the main potentiostat The inactive device will hold its DC...

Page 13: ...nce between the positive and negative terminal of EL1000 must not exceed 100 V in any input voltage range 4V 100V 20 Connect power cables to DUT to external power supply or load sink according to the...

Page 14: ...tware In this representation the current flow is counter clockwise current 0 EL1000 will read the potential with sense cables around DUT battery and will always read 3 V However between the and termin...

Page 15: ...tial can be calculated from the measured potential by subtracting the potential of the reference electrode 2 b Half cell configuration Anode This configuration is used with DUTs like rechargeable batt...

Page 16: ...culated from the measured potential by subtracting the potential of the reference electrode PAD4 connection A PAD4 card provides 4 additional channels for impedance measurements These channels allow f...

Page 17: ...mple 1000 W 48 V 20 8 A Here PAD4 cards can also be used to investigate the individual cells of a battery or fuel cell The potential range of a PAD4 cards is fixed at 4 V with the compliance voltage o...

Page 18: ...ternal load can also be connected in parallel to the DUT and EL1000 as shown below This allows for an independent control of EL1000 and external load on DUT In Graph 2 the X axis represents the termin...

Page 19: ...aph 3 follows the same scheme as described previously in this manual The X axis represents the terminal of EL1000 and the Y axis represents the terminal of EL1000 Graph 3 Part a is same as shown in Gr...

Page 20: ...external power source should be increase up to an extent that the total potential becomes positive after compensating for the opposing battery potential and the voltage drop R 5 b Electrolysis of fuel...

Page 21: ...exceed the fuel cell potential then the EL1000 will not reach the set current value Graph 4 shows the voltage drop through the resistance R of the system Additionally in EL1000 there are some additio...

Page 22: ...EL1000 external power supply and DUT Here a charging current is flowing through the battery The additional current provided by the power supply flow towards the terminal of EL1000 and from there to E...

Page 23: ...flow through terminal of EL1000 and then back to the external power supply via EXT terminal of EL1000 The DC current provided by the external power supply should be at least 1 A higher than the AC cu...

Page 24: ...bout 15 minutes after power on A calibration procedure is initi ated automatically with the first access by the Zennium system If you access an EL1000 during the warm up time please do a forced calibr...

Page 25: ...0A 200A Current accuracy 0 25 3mA 0 25 10mA Power dissipation 100W Ta 300W water cooled 1000W Ta Frequency range 10 Hz 3kHz 100A 10 Hz 10kHz 25A 10 Hz 10kHz 200A 10 Hz 100kHz 50A Impedance range 1 1k...