BCT-2000 Software and BCT-128 and BCT-256 User's Guide - Alber

The manual has more screen shots. Items on the screens are in bold type and followed by fulldescriptions. Most items on the screens are indexed.All cells in reports are now referenced by string name, not string number.You can now configure multiple sites with multiple batteries. See the Location section.At test time, the capacity can now optionally be calculated when the target value is reached.See the Calculate Capacity at Target section.There are now nudge buttons to nudge the load to within target when in the auto mode. Whencontrolling the load, the BCT is considered on target when the target value plus 1.5% oftarget value plus 1.5 amps is achieved. For example, on a load of 500 amps, the BCT couldset the load at 500 amps plus 1.5% (7.5 amps) plus 1.5 amps, or as high as 509 amps. TheNudge control lets you move the load closer to 500. See the Running the Test section.In the capacity calculation, the Modified Performance test can now optionally ignore stepswhen the load is targeted to zero. See the Ignore Zero Target Steps section.A High/Low voltage warning has been added to Charger test. See the Charger High/LowVoltage Warning section.Manual mode now has four fixed weight buttons: 1, 5, 10, and 20. These buttons manuallycontrol the load to the desired target more quickly than the one button in previous versions.Also, the Manual mode user-defined weight has been increased from 32 to 200 weights perincrement. See the Manual Load Bank Control section.You can now manually exclude cells prior to and during testing without pausing. See the CellExclusion section.The duration and target of the presently running test step and all following test steps can nowbe modified without pausing the test. See the Test Steps Area section.On the Charger test, a Voltage/Load History graph replaces the cell graph. History is limitedto 10 minutes. See the Charger Test Screen section.A charger and battery text report of voltage and load is now available. See the SummaryScreen section.Brackets ( < and > ) in reports indicate values that violate thresholds. A color printer is nolonger required. See the Criteria Screen section.The Percentage of Cell Failure in reports is now user definable instead of fixed at 80%. Seethe Criteria Screen section.You can now clip the start and end of a report when the BCT doesn't control the load, andthere is no load interval at the start and end of the test. See the Options Screen section.You can now optionally include the start and end step values on a multi-step test. See theOptions Screen section.There is now manual scale control for all graphs. See the Graph Screen section.A data filter option has been added to screen out abnormal values, such as when a clip leadfalls off. See the Filter Screen section.The Text Export feature is available again for reports. See the Exporting in Text (.TXT)Format section.2