Station Batteries
- Mechanical Checks and visual inspection
- Inspection for physical damage /defects
- Verify system configuration and capacity with specification and drawing
- Checks intercell and inter-tier connection link bolts tightness
- Check nameplate information for correctness( type of battery ,Ah
capacity ,date of manufacture
- Electrical Test
- Perform initial charge of battery(equalize voltage ,charging rate and charging time according to the manufacturer’s instructions)
- Inspection and check cell voltage ,electrolyte specific gravity and cell temperature at end of the charge cycle.
- Perform standard 8 hours or 10 hours as applicable ,discharge test procedures per ANSI/IEEE standard 450
- Recharging the battery according to the manufacturer’s instruction
Battery Charger
- Mechanical Checks and visual inspection
- Inspection of physical damage
- Check name plate information
- Check tightens
- Inspection all panel mounted devices (meter, switches ,push buttons, lamps)
- Electrical Test
- Megger all wiring and input output cables
- Checking the adjustment of output float and equalize voltage
- Function check of the following
- High & Low output voltage alarm/shutdown
- Ground monitoring /ground detector
- All protective alarms/shutdowns
- Current limitation
- All device ( switches, push buttons, indication lamps,etc)
- Checking output ripple content
- Checking regulation at 0% ,50% & 100% of full load
- Measuring AC input and DC output voltage and current
- Calibrate voltmeter & Ammeter
- Checking load sharing for parallel chargers
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