Load banks for rental or sale

is a UK family business which for the past 20 years have designed, manufactured and rented load banks to customers across the world.

Our DC and AC loadbanks are used for testing battery systems, UPS systems, fuel cells and generators in industries such as Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Petro-Chem, Telecoms, Data Centers.

Full technical support for the range of load banks are available within this web site and our sales office are available to assist with any requirement that you may have.

AC load banks are used for power testing single phase and 3 phase generators and UPS systems.
The range includes for indoor and outdoor testing requirements, with designs that covers from small compact light weight portable units to high powered trailer mounted loadbanks.

Remote parallel control using our iHHC hand held controller and PC data logging software.

Available power ratings from the HAC range include:

10kW, 30kW, 100kW, 200kW, 250KW, 333kW, 400kW, 500kW, 600kW, 1000KW, 1200KW.
Operating voltages: 380V to 690V, 50/60 hz

DC load banks offer solutions to meet the budget and technical requirements of all battery discharge testing.
The range of load banks includes the HBN range for economy discharge testing, the HLB range for high powered battery testing or the VARICON - HAV range with automatic current control and multi-voltage selection. The avaialble range of load banks are rated from 12V to 1200V DC. With specific nominal voltages of: 12V, 24V, 48V, 60V, 110V, 120V, 240V, 440V, 650V, 1000V, 1200V DC and current ratings up to 5000A.

Bespoke designs from our experienced engineering department can provide solutions for special requirements such as Fuel Cell testing, or load testing for production line life testing.

Additional PC control, measurement and interfacing from computers running applications such as LABVIEW, from our serial to CANbus protocol are also available.

The portable switch mode chargers range, offers lightweight constant voltage or current battery charging solutions.

The single cell charger offers a lightweight solution of charging new cell or jar replacement within an existing battery string.

Hillstone operates its load bank rentals and manufacture within the accredited ISO90001:2000 Quality Assurance System, to ensure the highest standards are continuously maintained.

Regular load bank testing of generators provides an essential health check service to prevent diesel engine failure due to wet stacking. Wet stacking occurs due to under loading of the genset which results in wet un-burned fuel building up in the engine. This fuel build up will over time line the combustion chamber cylinders and cause a reduction of the engines rating and efficiency which will ultimately cause premature failure of the generator. Running the generator on load of 50% - 100% of the genset rating will allow the engine to reach the recommend operating temperature, which will burn off the choke deposits. Hillstone and our partners can provide preventive maintenance programs.

Discharge testing is the approved method to determine the capacity of Lead acid and (Nickel Cadmium) Ni Cad/Ni Cd batteries, as recommended by all battery manufacturers such as Enersys, Exide, C&D Technologies, Hawker, Yuasa, Exide, Hoppecke, Saft, Varta, and in accordance to BS6290 part 4 / IEC TR 62060.

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Our load banks have both technical and commercial advantages over other suppliers such as Avtron Crestchic, Fromont, Cressell or Cressall, Cannon, Programma, Torkel, Albercorp, Aggreko.