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Customer feedback Products BITE2P
The customer found the BITE5 product BITE5 • Determines condition of lead-acid and
easy to use and relevant to their • Supports battery discharge testing NiCd cells up to 7000 Ah
application. They found it a useful and • Measures impedance on cells up to 200 V • On-board Pass/Warning/Fail indications
important piece equipment to have. • Supports lead acid, NiCd and Li-ion • Robust, repeatable instruments
They had been looking for suitable • Measures DC voltages up to 1000 V • On-line testing
equipment for many months but were • Measures AC voltages up to 600 V
unable to find any until they discovered • Touch screen set-up and trending Bibliography
the BITE5. In under an hour, BITE5 found • USB and micro-SD card 1. Boost Li Energy Storage Module
all the weak cells in all ten ESM modules. • Measures AC and DC current ESM-48100C1, Huawei Technologies
Co., Ltd.
Saving value BITE3 2. Megger Application Note: “Lithium-Ion
Telecommunication companies played • Determines health of lead-acid cells battery maintenance”
an important role during the time of the • On-line testing with Pass/Warning/Fail
pandemic. They served, and continue calculations Contact Marie-Claude Rasendra,
to serve, as a communication highway • Measures impedance, interconnection Megger,
for internet and phone calls. During the resistance and cell voltage Marie-Claude.Rasendra@megger.com,
pandemic, many people used internet • Measures float and ripple currents www.megger.com
for work purposes, such as online
meetings, presentations, trainings,
conferences, etc. Hence, aside from
loss of revenue from downtime, these
companies have to handle numerous
angry customers who lose their
opportunities due to unreliable internet
connections.

Disclaimer
In this test, we used BITE5 as a first step
to find weak points in the ESM. A further
test had to be carried out (the battery
discharge test) to confirm that the cells
were out of limits. BITE5

BITE2P BITE3

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