2023 Christmas gift guide: Powertec

Powertec has all of your comms and battery solutions sorted, and here's a selection of ideas for the upcoming festive season for your 4x4-loving friends and family.

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• Blackhawk Trucker Edge
• CEL-F1 ROAM R41
• Lithium Battery Smart 12.8V & 25.6V
• Lynx Smart Battery Management System

Blackhawk Trucker Edge

The Powertec Trucker Edge antenna is designed to provide optimal gain across 3G and 4G bands used when travelling throughout Australia and abroad. This powerful bull bar antenna features the optimum 6 dBi gain, providing best performance in both flat remote areas and when travelling amongst hills and tall trees.

As a bull bar-mounted antenna, the Trucker Edge sports an extra heavy-duty stainless-steel bell-spring for rough corrugations, and a strong, tapered fibreglass radome that provides consistent radiative performance in all directions. The antenna has a 4.5-metre PTL-240 ultra-flex cable, which is an industry-standard for high vibration mining machinery and industrial plants, and it provides the lowest per-metre loss of all similar-sized coaxial cables.

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CEL-F1 ROAM R41

Designed for cars, trucks, RVs and boats, the CEL-FI ROAM R41 is the industry’s most powerful cellular coverage solution for on-the-go applications. The R41 features the latest proprietary fourth generation IntelliBoost chip to deliver channelised coverage for specific mobile network operator (MNO) signals.

With this industry-leading performance and its plug-and-play operation, ROAM R41 can be set up and powered to improve cellular connectivity within minutes. ROAM R41 also supports operator switching through the Nextivity WAVE app.

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Lithium Battery Smart 12.8V & 25.6V

• With integrated cell balancing.
• Can be parallel and series connected.
• Bluetooth app available to monitor cell voltage and temperature.

Requires one of these BMS units:

• VE. Bus BMS / VE.Bus BMS V2 – recommended for systems with our inverter/chargers.
• smallBMS – recommended for use in small systems.
• Smart BMS 12/200 - recommended for use in Automotive and Marinesystems having DC-loads and Alternators.
• Smart BMS CL 12/100 – recommended for use in Automotive and Marine systems having DC-loads and alternators.
• Lynx Smart BMS is recommended for use in large systems.

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Lynx Smart Battery Management System

The Lynx Smart BMS is a dedicated Battery Management System for Victron Lithium Smart Batteries. There are multiple BMS-es available for our Smart Lithium series of batteries, and the Lynx Smart is the most feature-rich and complete option. It is available in two versions: 500A (with M8 busbar connections) and 1000A (with M10 busbar connections).

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