Features and Benefits

Testing portable, battery-operated devices under real-word conditions demands a DC power supply that can simulate a battery’s performance over a wide range of conditions. Series 2300 battery simulating power supplies can simulate both a battery’s output resistance and output voltage response. The dual-channel versions of these power supplies provide one channel to act like a battery and sink current for simulating a discharged rechargeable battery; the other channel supplies voltage for testing a device’s charge control circuitry.

Features

• Ultra-fast response to transient load currents
• Variable output resistance 
• Pulse peak, average, and baseline load current measurements
• 100nA DC current sensitivity
• Current step measure function
• Sink up to 3A
• Open sense lead detection
• Built-in digital voltmeter

Benefits

• Provides output characteristics identical to actual batteries.
• Allows simulating a battery’s internal resistance.
• Supports measuring load currents for power consumption verification or analysis.
• Provides the sensitivity needed to monitor the low sleep mode currents of battery-operated products.
• Supports measuring the load current at each level of a device’s operational states.
• Acts just like an electronic load, which allows these supplies to simulate a discharged rechargeable battery for use in testing the performance of battery chargers or battery charger control circuitry.
• Indicates if there is a broken remote sense lead or an open connection from a remote sense lead to the test fixture.
• Allows measuring signals from –5V to +30V DC anywhere in the test system with the same rated accuracy as the supply’s voltage readback.

• Keithley 2306-PJ Dual Channel Battery Charger/Simulator, 500mA, 15V, 5A Power Supply - Datasheet (319 KB)