Agilent Technologies E4370A, E4371A, E4374A General Information, Agilent Mccd System Capabilities

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General Information

Agilent MCCD System Capabilities

The Agilent Multi-Cell Charger/Discharger (MCCD) System has been designed to address the unique requirements and needs of lithium-ion cell manufacturing. The Agilent MCCD System can accurately charge, discharge, and measure lithium ion cells. It consists of an Agilent E4370A Multi-Cell Charger/Discharger mainframe with up to four Agilent E4374A 64-Channel Charger/Discharger cards. When fully loaded each mainframe has 256 input/output channels. Mainframes and modules can be combined in different configurations to form a low cost, high performance cell charge/discharge station in a cell manufacturing process.

The following figure is a simplified block diagram of the Agilent MCCD System. It is followed by a brief description of the system’s basic as well as advanced features.

10 Base T Ethernet to remote monitoring and control

Digital I/O to outside world
Remote	Multi-cell
Local	charger /
	discharger

Digital I/O Power Sense

Fixture
control and	Multiple cell
local
start/stop	tray

Powerbus
Rail power	Powerbus
source	Load

Serial Serial

Local	Local
terminal	barcode
	reader

Local

controls

Figure 1-1. Block Diagram of Agilent MCCD System

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