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March 30, 2011
LEM Announces Sentinel 3+ Battery Monitoring Transducer Upgrade for Latest UPS Designs
LEM has announced the introduction of Sentinel 3+, the latest generation of the proven Sentinel product that continuously monitors the state of health of batteries in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. The enhancements incorporated in Sentinel 3+ enable full integration into the newest architectures of UPS, accommodating UPS design evolutions such as transformerless circuit topologies.
Sentinel 3+ is a battery-monitoring transducer that measures the voltage, temperature and impedance of cells and complete batteries in UPS installations of all sizes up to mega-watt back-up power supplies for data centers and hospitals. Sentinel 3+ reports its measurements – on valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA), gel or flooded stationary batteries – to supervisory systems over a dedicated communications bus, and offers a unique capability to assess the true state-of-health of UPS batteries while they are in service. Sentinel 3+ gives complete confidence that battery arrays will deliver their rated power when called on to do so, and identifies weak and failing cells without the need to remove them from service for cycling tests.
Designers of the latest UPS systems have exploited technology developments such as the availability of fast insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) to reduce costs by eliminating bulky and expensive transformers from their circuit configurations. The battery packs that the Sentinel product monitors are, in consequence, operated in a floating voltage mode: the battery is subjected to higher ripple currents, and the monitoring circuitry must handle high common-mode voltages, with superimposed high-amplitude, fast transients.
LEM’s Sentinel 3+ features upgraded algorithms to address this more challenging measurement environment, maintaining the well-proven accuracy of the Sentinel product family, as well as improved EMC immunity and enhanced overall robustness. Sentinel 3+ delivers voltage measurements over a range of 0.9 to 16V with an accuracy of +/-0.5 percent; impedance measurement from 0.05 to 250mΩ with repeatability of +/-2 percent. Sentinel 3+ features Common Mode Transient Immunity up to 20 kV/µsec with a common-mode voltage level of ±600 V, and a transient repetition rate of 20 kHz.
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