Choosing the right battery option is pivotal to covert tracking success.  You must choose a battery configuration capable of lasting the duration of your tracking initiative and yet still maintain reserve capacity to handle unforeseen events.

GPSit has three choices:

• 1.8 Ah “Amp Hour” Li-ion rechargeable battery, integrated with FS1 tracking device
• 3.6 Ah Li-ion rechargeable battery, integrated with FS1 tracking device
• 24 Ah polymer lithium rechargeable battery, external to FS1 tracking device

For short tracking applications the 1.8Ah and 3.6 Ah battery options are ideal, especially since the battery and GPS tracker is a single, integrated unit.   For longer deployments, tracker configurations with the 24 Ah external battery are reccomended.

What impacts battery life?

Battery life is impacted by several key power consumption factors:

• Cellular coverage within the tracking region
• Location update frequency (user controlled with TrackFusion)
• Frequency of Assisted verses Autonomous GPS locates

If the above three characteristics are well known, then GPSit can give you a fairly good estimate of battery life.  If not, then these estimates will help you choose your initial battery configuration:

Choose:

1.8 Ah Battery  for up to 11 day deployments
3.6 Ah Battery  for up to 21 day deployments
24 Ah Battery  for up to 60 day deployments

If you have further questions, please contact GPSit.