Development and field testing a new battery management technique: reserve batteries in wireless telecommunication tower applications

Author

Adams, W. Bill A

Author_Institution

ESTCO Battery Manage. Inc., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

214

Lastpage

220

Abstract

The Battery Health Manager-BHM™, is a newly developed microprocessor-based device that automatically monitors and manages back-up battery power supplies without disrupting operations. In this paper, the authors report the results of field tests of a 100 A BHM™ system that was operated for the last two years in wireless telecommunication tower sites in Ottawa, Canada. Two standard BHM™ systems, for up to 30 A or 100 A charge/discharge, are described, but the system can be scaled up to higher or lower currents by changing the size of the single cell charger and load module.

Keywords

battery management systems; radio links; secondary cells; telecommunication power supplies; uninterruptible power supplies; 100 A; 30 A; BHM™; Battery Health Manager; Canada; back-up battery power supplies; battery charge/discharge; battery management; battery monitoring; field tests; reserve batteries; wireless telecommunication tower applications; Battery management systems; Centralized control; Disaster management; Energy management; Poles and towers; Power system management; Technology management; Temperature control; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Energy Conference, 2002. INTELEC. 24th Annual International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7512-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.2002.1048659

Filename

1048659