AC and DC load banks for worldwide rental

Operating from hire depots in the UK and Dubai - UAE, Hillstone can provide rental solutions for your load testing requirements.
Supplied with cable sets and with the option for mounting on road trailers, the available range covers from 5KW to over 2000KW.

Hillstone are the UK leading supplier of DC loadbanks. With units ranging from 12V to 600V, we can cover all battery testing requirements with available expert advise upon request.

The AC hire load banks utilise our intelligent hand held controller to give flexible parallel control of multiple units. With our UK network of depots we can ensure a high quality service to ISO9001:2000 including cable laying and delivery to ensure the equipment will arrive on site ready for the days testing.

The Hire Fleet Summary table gives an overview of the available individual load banks ratings

DC Load banks Voltage (V) Current (A)
Hand carry 12 to 30V up to 300A
Hand carry 12V to 60V up to 600A
Hand carry 110V to 140V up to 430A
On castor wheels 260V up to 300A
On castor wheels 480V up to 375A
Hand carry 600V up to 55A

AC Load banks Voltage (V) Power (KW)
Hand carry 415V 30KW
Portable units 415V 40KW
On castor wheels 415V 90KW
On castor wheels 415V 100KW
On castor wheels 415V 200KW
On castor wheels 415V 300KW
On UK road trailer 415V 500KW

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 upon request.

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, Cressall, Cannon, Programma, Torkel, Albercorp.