CBA III

• Easy to use and foolproof
• Perform professional quality tests
• Analyze exact battery characteristics
• Match cells or pick the best pack
• Check for battery aging
• Cycle and condition batteries by doing repeated discharges

CBA Amplifier

Test at 5 times the power with a CBA amplifier in between a CBA and your battery.

• 500 watt discharge with a single amp and a CBA
• 1000 watt discharge with two amplifiers, a harness and a CBA
• 2000 watt discharge with four 20X* amplifiers, a harness and a CBA
• Designed for commercial or industrial use.
• Test a Lithium cell at up to 120 amps / 500 watts with a single amplifier
• Test a Nickel cell at 160 amps regulated down to .9 volts with a single amplifier
• Test large batteries at high discharge rates
• Test small batteries at or near their current and temperature limits
• Each amplifier includes a Pro Software license for one CBA (CBA III hardware not included)

*20X amplifiers are a special order item. Contact West Mountain Radio for details.

CBA Software

The CBA software is easy and intuitive to use. It provides automatic sensing of the battery cell count and recommends a safe maximum discharge current and minimum safe cutoff voltage for your batteries. The system of software and hardware is designed to protect both the CBA and the batteries that are tested.

About CBA

The CBA is capable of higher test rates than other testers: up to 150 watts or 40 amps maximum. It not only tests the total amount of energy stored in a battery (capacity in amp-hrs), but it graphically displays and charts voltage versus amp-hours.

Unlike a resistor load it has an electronic constant current load that is controlled both with software and electronics. Constant power tests may be done with the Pro software upgrade.

Graphs may be displayed, saved and printed. Multiple graphs of the same battery, or multiple batteries, may be compared or overlaid, a very useful feature. Battery tests may be printed on a color or black and white printer. You may also print convenient test labels to be placed directly on your batteries to remember the last time they were tested and how they performed.

A CBA will measure the temperature of a battery under test using the optional external temperature probe. The temperature probe will provide automatic over-temperature shutoff at a preset or user selected temperature limit. Battery temperature may be graphed with the Pro software upgrade.

The CBA uses a high grade Powerpole battery connector and comes with a 13 gauge pigtail lead for which adaptors may be made, or purchased as an accessory to connect a battery. A CBA is ruggedly built, compact and has a high performance cooling system with a quiet fan. LED indicators show test status from across a room.

The CBA uses an on-board micro controller. Each CBA is individually computer calibrated to high accuracy. The electronic load uses a pulse width modulation system to control a pair of power MOS FET transistors using both electronic and software current regulation. The on-board micro controller provides the plug-and-play USB interface to the computer.

The software supplied with the CBA is easy and intuitive to use. It provides automatic sensing of the battery cell count and recommends a safe maximum discharge current and minimum safe cutoff voltage for your batteries. The system of software and hardware is designed to protect both the CBA and the batteries that are tested.

We think that you will find the CBA a useful and essential tool for anyone that depends on batteries in critical applications. You will learn new and valuable information about your batteries that cannot be determined any other way. Using batteries without a CBA is like driving a car without a gas gauge.

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