MSB test their highest voltage Thermal Battery
The new battery will meet an even greater range of the most highly demanding requirements and parameters.
With the success of the tests, which took place in late June, it is now possible for MSB’s broad client base to safely utilise 450v batteries in a variety of aerospace and defence applications. The battery solution uses MSB LAN technology where the 450v output can be reached within 0.8s and provide a stable output for 300s under load.
MSB’s existing range of Thermal Batteries are designed to satisfy the most advanced requirements of clients’ own specification, such as the batteries’ power requirements, service life, size, weight and overall design. Thermal batteries are an ideal emergency power source and are a very reliable and robust, ‘fit and forget’ solution. The batteries are entirely inert for transport and storage. As thermal battery technology does not self-discharge they can remain in-situ for 15 years or more with no maintenance.
Gary Oliphant, Programme Manager at MSB, commented: “MSB has extended our capability of providing safe and reliable high voltage Thermal Batteries which are an ideal power source in safety critical and emergency aerospace applications.”
MSB, part of the ASB Group, has over 50 years proven record for the design and manufacture of Thermal Batteries for high energy density for land, sea and air applications in the defence and aerospace sectors which include Ejector Seats, Guided Rockets, Missiles & Torpedoes, Aircraft Power Supplies and Countermeasures products.
