Input voltage monitoring
If the input voltage drops below 180VAC, the charger will protect itself and pauses the
charge process. The 'power' will light up red. The charge process will be continued
automatically if the input voltage has risen to 190VAC again.
Automatic voltage compensation
The charger automatically compensates for the voltage drop over the connection
cables. This compensation is optimized for the standard cable length of 1 meters. To
secure the correct working of the voltage compensation, it is preferred not to change
the length of the cables.
Current limitation
The charger incorporates a current limitation feature.
Charge time monitoring
All phases of the charge process are time monitored, but in particular the first stage,
the boost phase. If this phase takes longer than 14 hour, the charge process will be
stopped and the ' power' LED will light up red. Most important requisite of this
feature is that this way is prevented that the charger keeps on charging a broken
battery. But with this feature it also can become clear that the
charger doesn't fit the specific situation. For instance that the charge current isn't in
the correct proportion to the battery capacity (the battery can become damaged when
the charge process takes too long) or due to the presence of users there is insufficient
current left for charging the battery.
Battery voltage protection
After switching on, the charger first monitors the battery voltage. If the charger
doesn't detect a battery, the power led will light up red. If the charger measures a
battery voltage that is too low, so the battery is discharged too deeply, the power led
will light up red for 3 minutes as a warning. The charging process will not start when
the battery voltage is too high. Then the power led will also light up red.
Level of protection
The indication for the degree of protection contains the character 'IP' (International
Protection) followed by two or three digits that stipulates the conditions that it
complies with.
The first digit refers to the class of protection for density, the second digit to the fluid
density and the last digit refers to the impact resistance. The LBC 500 can be
assigned IP 205, which means:
2 = the charger is protected against solid particulate larger than 12mm.
0 = the charger is not protected against water/liquid etc.
5 = the charger can bear an impact force of 2.00 Joule (2Nm) max.
Important
Protect the charger against moisture, pollution etc. This can damage the charger
internally. The cost for this repair is not covered by warranty.
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