Battery Maintenance for Mission Critical Equipment

• Safety: What is the acceptable number of sudden radio failures you allow your people to experience? One may be too many… Today’s military personnel rely on their portable communications tools to ensure their own safety and the safety of those they serve.
• Reliability: the ability to track your fleet of batteries in the field ensures that your equipment is ready for action whenever it’s needed.
• Cost Savings: using quality service tools will extend the life of your batteries resulting in lower replacement costs.

• The green light indicates that a battery is charged not that there is enough energy in it to do the job.
• Bad batteries charge faster and reach “green” before good batteries – making them more likely to be used.

  ...does not mean "ABLE"

• If you have an aging fleet of nickel batteries vigilance is required to ensure you are getting the most value from it.
• In a comparison of 3 maintenance methods used on Navy ships, Cadex’s unique Reconditioning routine resulted in cost savings of nearly 50%.

While lithium-ion batteries may not need the monthly reconditioning that your nickel-based batteries require, proper maintenance is still critical.

• A significant number of new batteries do not meet the manufacturer’s specifications – an incoming testing program ensures that poor batteries are identified upfront.
• Prevent sudden failure: knowing and tracking the capacity of the batteries will ensure that every piece of equipment will make it through the next operation.
  
  

• Analyzers: the workhorse of a battery maintenance system determines both state of health (energy capacity) and state of charge and services batteries.
• Software: used to create and run service programs, scan and track battery history, and create labels.
• Chargers: robust quality in single or multiple bay options.

Cadex C7000ER keeps the F16 fighter jets on course Lockheed Martin employs the Cadex C7000ER battery analyzers to service the Inertial Navigation Unit batteries used on the F16 aircraft. This unique battery adapter system enables the Cadex analyzers to accommodate other battery types, including the widely used military BB390 and BB590, as well as batteries for two-way radios, cell phones, mobile computing, biomedical instruments and avionics.

To reduce battery replacement costs for two-way radios, GTE Government Services did a study on US Naval Ships by applying three battery service models: Charge-and-use, Exercise and Recondition. Recondition is a deep discharge exclusive to Cadex battery analyzers to restore nickel-cadmium batteries affected by memory. GTE discovered that Recondition provides a nine-fold cost reduction over other methods. Based on these results, GTE endorses the Cadex battery analyzers for all operations.