Automated Battery Tester Data Acquisition System Using LabVIEW

Author

Lockhart, Mark ; Clabon, L. ; Lott, Chris ; James, Michael R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Prairie View A&M Univ., Prairie View, TX

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Well logging, measurement while drilling, and seismic acquisition require custom power sources. These custom power sources are safely manufactured and tested for operations in subsurface environments. Currently at DynaTech, Ltd. Inc., battery assembly and testing are done manually. An automated battery testing data acquisition system has been developed to enhance the manufacturing process. The battery data acquisition system utilizes PC-based hardware from National Instruments and software (LabVIEW) to perform automated measurements of an alkaline battery such as measuring open circuit voltage, load voltage and continuity. This paper describes the process for software development of the tools and equipment used for data acquisition.

Keywords

data acquisition; electrical engineering computing; secondary cells; software tools; well logging; Lab VIEW; National Instruments and software; PC-based hardware; alkaline battery; automated battery tester data acquisition system; custom power sources; load voltage; manufacturing process; open circuit voltage; software development; subsurface environments; well logging; Automatic testing; Battery charge measurement; Circuit testing; Data acquisition; Power measurement; Seismic measurements; Software measurement; System testing; Voltage; Well logging; Measurement While Drilling (MWD); Signal Conditioning Extension for Instrumentation (SCXI); data acquisition system; voltage measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Region 5 Conference, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2076-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2077-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TPSD.2008.4562740

Filename

4562740