User Guide

Viewing Battery and Monitor Status
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The BDS and MPM All Discharges screens are similar, except the MPM screen has the
MPM Current to Include in Report selection. The View|Load Test and View|Discharge screens are
the same, except View|Load Test has the Start, Stop and Get buttons available.
Report Interval area - Click Time or OV Deviation and type a value in the box. The Report Interval
determines the frequency of report sampling. If Time is selected, replay time advances in increments
measured against real-time. For example, if 00:10 is entered, playback advances 10 seconds every
second. If Overall Voltage is selected, playback advances each time the voltage changes. For
example, if 0.1 is entered, playback advances each time a 100mv deviation in overall voltage occurs.
Specify time in hours, minutes, and seconds (10 second minimum) or OV (overall voltage) deviation
in volts (0.2 volt minimum).
Click Use Preset Thresholds to use values set in the BMDM program when the test was run.
Click Override Preset Thresholds to ignore BMDM thresholds, then type values in the Low Cell
Threshold and Low OV Threshold boxes to identify cells that exceed critical levels. Any
measurement below these values will be in violation.
Graph Scaling area - Click Auto to default to automatic graph scaling, or click Manual and type
the Max and Min graph scale values. Use Manual scaling when you want to maintain scaling to make
it easier to compare several graphs.
Select Auto Select to automatically select cells listed on the right side that violate the thresholds. If
you change the cell or OV thresholds, cells that meet the new criteria are selected. You may add cells
to the report by selecting additional check boxes in the list.
Select String Memos and Cell Memos to include string and cell memos.
Select Include Power to list power in reports, in addition to voltage and current.
Select Standard to create a standard report. Cells are listed by string, and strings are listed by time in
a Cell = Value format.
Select Tabular to create a tabular report, which is the same as a standard report, but in a spreadsheet
format, with Cells vs. Time.
Click Cell Graph to create a report that includes a cell graph.
Click Cell Detail to create a report that includes cell detail.
Click OV/I Graph to create a report that includes Overall Voltage and Load Current graphs.
MPM Current to Include in Report (MPM only) - Choose up to four current channels Current 1 to
Current 4 to view simultaneously if they are connected.
The Discharge Dates columns list the Start Date/Time, Duration, Lowest OV, OV@30 and
ACV@30 of all discharges. The Lowest OV column lists the lowest value reached during discharge.
OV@30 lists the overall voltage 30 seconds into discharge, and ACV@30 lists the average cell
voltage 30 seconds into discharge. Click the discharge for which the report will be generated. Only
one discharge date may be selected for a report.