Engine Start Modules

Technology

We often hear about fleet owners experiencing battery ”problems”, even in the summer when it isn’t cold. The high electrical load on modern trucks and especially coaches will drain the battery’s, causing the voltage to drop so low that the critical systems won’t work anymore. Our unit will crank the engine at all times and can also wake the vehicle (in dead battery situation) by powering the critical systems (such as Multiplex, MCU, etc.) From the ultracapacitor module as well.

Configuration may vary per application.

We have 2 types of configuration:

• Parallel start
• Dedicated start

Parallel start

By a parallel configuration, the powerstart stands parallel with the batteries.

Current profile parallel start

Yellow: Current from the Powerstart

Blue: Current from the Batteries

•  Once the Powerstart is paralleld to batteries a current of 100A flows to the batteries
• During the start a peak appears of 1000A from the Powerstart and 600A from the batteries.
• After the 1st peak: Cranking of 2,5 seconds is provided almost totally by the Powerstart.

Dedicated start

By a dedicated start the Powerstart provides all power for starting the engine.

Start  profile dedicated start

Yellow: Powerstart current (1mV/A)

Blue: Powerstart voltage (10V/div)

•  1500A peak current
• Higher crank power available –> faster start-up
• 4 crank attemps before empty
• No current from battery required

Certifying Tests

Applications

Maritime

Starting 18 liter engine.

Truck

Railway

Bus

Generating set

• Mobile generator
• UPS