EaglePicher Releases BA-5590 Battery with SOCI
The Defense and Space Power Division of EaglePicher Technologies LLC (Phoenix, AZ) announced that EaglePicher has released a new BA-5590 battery with a built-in state-of-charge indicator (SOCI) developed by POWERPRECISE Solutions. In addition, EaglePicher has been awarded a $1 million contract by the US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) for qualification and delivery of the new BA-5590 battery with SOCI. EaglePicher will begin delivery of initial units to CECOM in the spring of 2005.
The high-energy, lithium-sulfur-dioxide (LiSO2) BA-5590 is the military's most widely used battery, and tremendous cost and logistics savings are anticipated with the addition of an SOCI. Users will now have the ability to make smart replacement decisions based on the remaining energy capacity, eliminating the need to discard a mission-critical battery after a single use. Batteries that previously might have been discarded prematurely due to the inability to know the remaining capacity now have a display that indicates remaining capacity at levels of greater than 80%, 60%, 40% and 20%.
The SOCI on the BA-5590 provides the user with an indication of the remaining capacity through a light emitting-diode display, which is designed for both night operations and bright-light environments. For use with a single-channel, ground and airborne radio system, the EaglePicher BA-5590 battery equipped with the SOCI allows users to correlate percentage of capacity remaining to operating time remaining, allowing for more effective equipment management.
