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    Jotron manufactures over 30,000 battery powered emergency beacons, search and rescue transmitters, and VHF radios each year. The lithium batteries used in these products have a self-discharge rate of less than 3% per year. For new products compliant with IMO regulations introduced in 2022, Jotron will label the battery lifetime and required maintenance dates on each unit. Previous products are listed with their shelf life before installation and maximum service life. The new beacons have battery expiry dates ranging from 7 years and 6 months to 11 years and 3 months, with required maintenance to be completed within 5 years of installation or by the battery expiry date, whichever comes first.

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    Jotron manufactures over 30,000 battery powered emergency beacons, search and rescue transmitters, and VHF radios each year. The lithium batteries used in these products have a self-discharge rate of less than 3% per year. For new products compliant with IMO regulations introduced in 2022, Jotron will label the battery lifetime and required maintenance dates on each unit. Previous products are listed with their shelf life before installation and maximum service life. The new beacons have battery expiry dates ranging from 7 years and 6 months to 11 years and 3 months, with required maintenance to be completed within 5 years of installation or by the battery expiry date, whichever comes first.

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    Jotron manufactures over 30,000 battery powered emergency beacons, search and rescue transmitters, and VHF radios each year. The lithium batteries used in these products have a self-discharge rate of less than 3% per year. For new products compliant with IMO regulations introduced in 2022, Jotron will label the battery lifetime and required maintenance dates on each unit. Previous products are listed with their shelf life before installation and maximum service life. The new beacons have battery expiry dates ranging from 7 years and 6 months to 11 years and 3 months, with required maintenance to be completed within 5 years of installation or by the battery expiry date, whichever comes first.

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    TECHNICAL BULLETIN TB04-2022

    BATTERY LIFETIME ON BATTERY POWERED GMDSS


    PRODUCTS

    Jotron manufactures more than 30.000 EPIRB, SART and VHF battery packs (Lithium) every year.
    So, batteries are never old in Jotron Stock.
    The battery types we use have less than 3% self-discharge per year.

    From introductions of new IMO MSC.471(101) compliant EPIRBs in 2022, we start a new way of labelling
    battery lifetime/service life or Shore Based Maintenance due dates on these EPIRBs, see table at the
    bottom of this page in Table 2 for the new products

    Table 1. below show a list of shelf life and service life on our products developed before 2022

    Definitions:
    • Shelf life: The time the product may be in stock from manufacturing date until installed on a vessel.
    • Service life: The maximum lifetime the product can be labeled to. (According to SOLAS req. of SBM)

    Product Shelf life (months) Service life (years) Total (years)


    Tron 40S mkII/ 30 5 7,5
    EPIRB

    Tron 40GPS mkII 30 5 7,5


    Tron 60S / Tron 60GPS 24 5 7
    Tron 40VDR 30 5 7,5
    Tron SART 12 4 5
    SART

    Tron SART20 18 5 6,5


    Tron AIS-SART 18 5 6,5
    Tron TR20 GMDSS 18 5 6,5
    VHF

    Tron TR30 GMDSS 30 5 7,5


    Tron TR30 AIR 30 5 7,5
    Table 1
    Products with grey background are obsolete products.

    New IMO MSC.471(101) compliant EPIRBs:


    1
    Product Battery expiry Service or SBM due date ,
    maximum( years) 2
    Tron 60AIS 11 Years 3 Month 5
    EPIRB

    Tron 40AIS 7 Years 6 Months 5


    Tron 40VDR-AIS 7 Years 6 Months 5
    Table 2
    1
    Battery expiry is calculated from battery’s production date, useful time may be less than shown here due to transportation
    delays, and/or time in warehouse shelf.
    2
    Shore Based Maintenance (SBM) due date shall be 4 or 5 years from installation (dependent of vessel flag), provided that this
    date is less than “Battery expiry” date

    Jotron AS, 15th March 2022

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