Motorola IMPRES Smart Energy System - Manual (Page 5)

Facts:
1. IMPRES TM products are smarter because they
“talk” to each other.
Motorola’s industry-exclusive IMPRES technology
allows communication between the charger and
the battery, which enables automated battery re-
conditioning, display of critical charging information
and other key benefi ts. IMPRES batteries have a
memory chip that stores all usage information,
which can then be accessed and evaluated by any
IMPRES charger. IMPRES chargers have built-in re-
conditioning capability that is automatically utilized
any time an IMPRES battery requiring maintenance
is inserted.
2. IMPRES chargers perform adaptive reconditioning.
Before the availability of IMPRES chargers with
automatic, adaptive reconditioning, battery mainte-
nance technicians had to guess at the correct
reconditioning intervals. Reconditioning too often
wasted battery cycles; not reconditioning often
enough resulted in diminished battery performance.
IMPRES has changed all that. IMPRES chargers
evaluate the actual usage pattern of every battery to
establish the optimal reconditioning interval.
3. IMPRES offers long-term safe charging.
Most conventional chargers transition to a mainte-
nance charge mode at the completion of a charge
cycle. Maintenance charge is constant power applied
to a battery in an effort to keep it charged over time.
This results in long-term heating that can damage a
battery, resulting in lost capacity. IMPRES chargers
automatically turn off at the end of a charge cycle
yet continue to electronically monitor IMPRES
batteries every 5 minutes to determine when more
energy should be applied to the battery. This process
assures that the battery maintains a very high state
of charge without sustaining heat damage due to
the charger.
4. Fully charged doesn’t mean full battery capacity.
Most conventional chargers have an LED to indicate
charge status. Red indicates charging and green
indicates charge complete. But what does charge
complete really mean? The charger is saying that it
did the best it could given the condition of the battery
and it is done. However, the resulting battery capacity
could be far less than the original stated capacity
for an old or defective battery, yet the user has no
way of knowing that with only an LED indication.
IMPRES chargers with displays provide the actual
charge capacity of the battery, so you’ll know exactly
how much usage you will get from each battery.
5. IMPRES charger LED indicators give additional
information.
IMPRES chargers have additional LED indication
capability to supply you with even more information
during a charge cycle. The alternating red/green
LED indicates batteries have fallen below a certain
capacity threshold (typically less than 60% of rated
minimum capacity). An IMPRES battery exhibiting a
red/green indication is not defective – it has simply
reached a capacity level that may limit its usage.
Myth:
Competitive batteries are IMPRES compatible.
Competitive battery manufacturers often claim to be
“IMPRES compatible.” While it may be true that some
competitive batteries can be charged in IMPRES char-
gers, there are still signifi cant limitations and con-
cerns. The communication between an IMPRES bat-
tery and IMPRES charger that enables automatic
reconditioning, display of IMPRES data on display
chargers and other IMPRES features is a Motorola ex-
clusive technology and will only occur with the combi-
nation of IMPRES batteries and
IMPRES chargers.
Motorola does not test the charge compatibility or
safety of competitive batteries in IMPRES chargers.
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