Before you go out and purchase a battery isolation device, we've designed a battery isolator that is more efficient than anything we've seen on the market. It's currently being ramped-up for production. Why should you consider our product over other products? Let's quickly look at ways to isolate batteries.
One way is a constant duty solenoid. Easy to use. Cheap. Guaranteed to have diminshing performance over time as the contacts arc every time it's switched.
Second way is a solid state device which commonly uses diodes called Schottkey diodes. There are no moving parts, which is good, but the diodes are fairly expensive and suffer from a substantial voltage drop across the diode. This voltage drop (i.e. resistance) manifests as heat which in turn has to be dissipated. This is why most isolators you see come in the form of a giant 3 pound aluminum extruded heat sink. They may annodize it a cool color, but it's not there 'cause it's pretty. It's there so the damn thing doesn't overheat. And as we all know, heat is what ultimately kills products.
Now, what's different about the isolator that we developed at MOBI-ARC?
For starters, its small (approx 4"x1"x1") which makes it easy to install.
There's no aluminum extruded heat sink....because we don't need one! It dissipates so little heat it's ridiculous.
It's scalable, meaning that you can stack isolator modules together and isolate from 100a to 1000a.
Some isolators are specifically designed to work with a particular alternator's regulator. Why? Because they drop so much voltage through the isolator that the regulator needs to be jumpered to the other side of the isolator for it to function properly. Not ours! The voltage drop is so miniscule that jumping the regulator isn't necessary.
We've simply designed the perverbial better mousetrap and we look forward to bringing it to market. Any comments or questions, feel free to e-mail us at
info@mobi-arc.com
