Since 1984, Test Products Incorporated (TPI) has specialized in providing nationwide consulting, engineering, evaluations, testing and commissioning services for standby power systems in the telecommunication, utility and financial industries.

Independent

TPI does not sell any products, represent any manufacturers or provide installation services. This allows TPI to provide a completely independent and unbiased evaluation/testing/consulting service.

Experienced

TPI has been providing services to the standby power industry for over 20 years. TPI engineers are involved in national and international conferences and have presented a number of papers at international industry conferences. TPI has an engineer on staff who is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) battery working group which is responsible for standards on installation, maintenance and testing of batteries. TPI is up-to-date on current and proposed standards and methods of testing and evaluation. Equipment and procedures have been developed over the years to provide detailed evaluation/analysis/tests under controlled conditions to minimize risk to the system while identifying conditions that can affect system reliability.

Quality

TPI maintains an in-house certified calibration lab facility to NIST traceable standards. All equipment is on a detailed calibration program which ensures accuracy in the evaluations/tests. TPI has a formal quality assurance program which includes training, review and updates of procedures, equipment maintenance and calibration, pre-employment back ground investigations and Drug Free Work Place (DFWP) programs.

TPI follows up-to-date safety standards such as NFPA 70E, as well as providing its employees with current training in CPR and the use of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs).

Capabilities

TPI has extensive testing capabilities with specialized equipment that was designed by TPI engineers. Our patented automatic, programmable load banks and monitoring equipment can test large dc power plants and batteries up to 250 cells. TPI's proprietary cell monitoring system reads every battery cell while utilizing optical isolation which avoids individual cell wire and voltages coming back to the main monitoring unit. TPI has extensive experience in evaluation and testing of various types of batteries such as:

• Flooded lead-acid
• Valve regulated lead-acid (VRLA)
• Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad)

Our infrared equipment includes state-of-the-art cameras that provide high quality thermal images with precise quantitative temperature data. These are real time infrared cameras with digital storage capability that allow on-site review and assessment which can be fully documented for further evaluation or records.

Reporting

TPI provides detailed reports with recommendations, summaries, images, numerical and graphical data. The report can be provided electronically (PDF) and in hard formats.

This page was last updated October 13, 2009