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improve the results with each new battery we develop. IPT recently launched a new battery for the
XTS 3000/5000 that lasts over 40 hours per charge.
The other goal we hoped to achieve was lower the
level of toxic waste in landfills by reducing overall
battery consumption. We worked to extend our battery lifespan to a guarantee of two years, versus
one year, which was the industry norm.
I’m happy to report, after three-and-a-half years in
business, every battery IPT has made and sold is
still functioning at about 80 percent capacity, so I
guess we more than exceeded our goal.
What we didn’t foresee was, in addition to lowering our carbon footprint, the agencies that used our
batteries no longer spent valuable budget to constantly replace dead OE batteries. Instead, they are
skipping as many as three typical battery procurement cycles and using these savings to purchase
other necessary equipment like body cams.
For IPT, the most meaningful proof that our technology is working is that our current customers keep
coming back for more batteries to convert all 2-way
radios from OEMs to a longer lasting power source.
IPT recently won multiple bids with the City of Boston Police Department, Norfolk County Sheriff’s
Department, Miami Beach PD and other agencies
to power their radios. Alachua County Sheriff’s Office in Gainesville, Florida is a new customer who
recently switched to IPT’s batteries for both its
XTS3000/5000 and XTS1500/2500 radios.
On the campus safety side, Tulane University added IPT replacement batteries for the APX and XTS
radios its security and police divisions use. Brigham
Young University and the University of Chicago both
use XPR radios and returned for more IPT batteries, while the University of North Texas expanded
battery replacements in its 6550 Turbo radios.
Most of these agencies were required to bid other
Lithium Polymer battery vendors before buying.
But, when they did comparison tests, ours significantly outlasted the competition. The battery mar-
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ket is confusing when other LiPo battery manufacturer technology sounds similar to IPT but, in reality,
they’re vastly different.
My partner Ken Murphy always jokes that we’ve
purposely limited our future sales by making such
long lasting batteries. But, in all seriousness, we’re
okay with that.
It may sound cliché but, what matters most to us is
that we’ve made a difference in public safety, the
environment and, most of all, helped save officers’
lives.
Curt Quinter is President and
Chief Engineer of Impact Power Technologies.
Curt has over 30 years
experience in the energy
sector managing technical operations for multiple
international battery companies. Curt has consistently lead the industry in
research, design and development of lithium polymer, lithium ion and other
battery technologies, as well as implementing the
process for manufacturing Factory Mutual Intrinsically Safe batteries.
To learn more, please visit http://www.impactpowertech.com/.
Good luck to Impact Power (APT) on becoming a
Winner of the American Security Today’s Homeland Security Awards Program!
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