American Reliance Electronic Load Overview, Amrel PLA800-60-120E

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@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

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@JayGroh Ай бұрын

I'm sure you have a good use case for what you bought but for anyone that wants a cheap good electronic load I bought 3 different models from ZKETech. The EBC-A40L for single cell, EBC-A20 for up to 30v, and the EBC-B20H for 9v-88v. I also bought a RD6018 DC Power Supply for the EBC-B20H since it alone cannot charge. All of these combined cover the voltage and amperage spread I use most often. They all work great and the software that it uses you can do cycles at different charge and discharge rates and have it exported in a spreadsheet. The software does crash once in a while but for what I use it for it works just fine. Just wanted to mention it in case you or anyone else that may want a cheaper option.

@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

What is the discharge wattage of the EBC-B20H. I did some Googling and can't seem to find it listed anywhere...

@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

Oh 1700W, that's pretty darn good!! It's limited to 20A though so still a deal breaker for me.

@JayGroh Ай бұрын

@@LithiumSolar Yeah if you need to really pull some amps for testing on large batteries these might not do the job but they are great at least for the batteries I use. The largest pack I have at the moment is about 80Ah at 48v. Takes a while to do a full charge dischage cycle but I'm not testing it all the time. I mostly just test single cells to put into larger packs then do a capacity test on the whole pack. That EBC-A40L can rip through single cells at 40A though. Kind of limits you to 40Ah cells at 1C rate but smaller cells you can really push the limits.

@Tentious Ай бұрын

Hats off to Frank for proper QC!

@clarencewiles963 Ай бұрын

Good idea to crunch some numbers. Thanks for sharing this!

@markmonroe7330 Ай бұрын

Excellent presentation. Thank you. Really looking forward to seeing this in your future testing. Very nice gizmo.

@12345....... Ай бұрын

Thanks for the caffeine reminder. Cold brew coffee is calling my name.

@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

No coffee for me, but definitely need to cut back on the Celsius LOL.

@WiSeNhEiMeR-1369 Ай бұрын

Thanks COOP ...

@BradCagle Ай бұрын

Pretty awesome. With all the communication ports available might be easy to write a program to conduct the actual capacity test, provided protocol docs are available. All the stuff needed to perform the calculations seem to be there, i.e. the shunt, and voltage measurements. Do you know if it publishes current/voltage measurements over the ethernet port? You mentioned you were able to control it over telnet, so seems it's probably easy to figure out the commands, etc.

@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

Already done! I'll have a follow-up video demonstrating this next.

@BradCagle Ай бұрын

@@LithiumSolar Nice! Now you got me thinking about grabbing one of these LOL

@johnnodge4327 Ай бұрын

I love the attention to detail in the assembly of prosumer equipment, when compared with consumer equipment. This should give much better discharge analysis of batteries, which can only be a good thing.

@AdamDeLayDIY Ай бұрын

Wow, that's very cool! I do love the different CV, CP, CC and CR options for testing. Should be much more consistent and stop you from having to worry about "was it the battery or the inverter that shut down?". I wonder if a meter would be closer to the electronic load or the Batrium? I saw one of the boards looks like it had a lot of POTs on it, probably for calibration. Wonder if you could find any spec sheets on how to calibrate the meter to ensure it's as accurate as possible for your tests? Would be nice if there was some way to capture that excess power though. I'm not a huge fan of using heaters for tests (unless its super cold outside) because you're kinda wasting the power. I would rather harvest the power and try to use it if possible. Looking forward to future tests!

@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

Yes, that was the problem with the inverter setup is a lot of times the inverter cuts out before the battery BMS. Batrium claims to be calibrated to a 1% tolerance, but I'm not so sure about that. This can be calibrated - already contacted two calibration companies and have a quote back from one :)

@AdamDeLayDIY Ай бұрын

@@LithiumSolar Hopefully the calibration price isn't as much as the whole unit! 😁

@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

@@AdamDeLayDIY The quote was $185. The other company declined due to not serving Amrel equiptment. I'm hoping to drop off locally to avoid shipping costs. I'm not sure if I'll do it yet or not. It seems pretty accurate as-is.

@AdamDeLayDIY Ай бұрын

@ wow, even $185 is not bad at all. I was thinking it would be double that at least.

@hmtechsvc Ай бұрын

sweet find man!!! it's basically a giant pro grade dl24 lol - i would always do four wire cap testing man - even if it's negligible for low loads, the higher the load test, the higher the sag ofc, so i'd just use 4 every time just as sop... excellent excellent find again!

@LithiumSolar Ай бұрын

Agreed - voltage leads came yesterday, all set now! First really battery to test it on will be the "dumfume" from Black Friday (arriving later this week).

@stevenc22 Ай бұрын

Good on you building scripts and dashboards to track the data.

@john_in_phoenix Ай бұрын

Nice, I couldn't find any decent used ones. I purchased 4 smaller units new. Kunkin makes some good ones, and you can parallel them (just use a busbar). 400 watts each, or up to 40 amps each and under $200 each (and calibrated). Great for testing cells or even batteries.