Reliable Energy Solutions for the Agricultural Sector
South African farms run on more than just hard work — they run on energy. Whether it's powering irrigation systems, milking machines, cold storage, or workshop tools, a dependable power supply keeps your farm productive. The LBSA Rhino Intelliflex High Voltage Battery delivers exactly that — strong, scalable, and efficient power that keeps your operations running day and night, even during load shedding.
LBSA's locally assembled, serviced, and supported batteries are designed to withstand the demands of the agricultural environment, giving farmers the confidence to work smarter and grow stronger.
Agricultural Energy Solutions
Who LBSA Batteries Are For in the Agricultural Sector
Every farm and agri-business has unique energy needs — from small-scale operations to large commercial estates. LBSA batteries are built to adapt, providing dependable power wherever it's needed most.
Crop & Irrigation Farms
Power water pumps and irrigation equipment with reliable backup power. Ensure continuous crop watering during power outages and reduce electricity costs with solar integration.
Dairy & Livestock Farms
Maintain feeding systems, ventilation, milking machines, and water supply during outages. Keep your livestock operations running with reliable backup power for essential equipment and climate control.
Cold Storage & Packhouses
Maintain temperature control for perishable crops and products. Keep your cold storage facilities and packhouses operational with reliable backup power for refrigeration and climate control systems.
Remote & Off-Grid Farms
Power essential farm operations in remote locations with reliable energy storage. Perfect for off-grid farms that need dependable power for irrigation, livestock, and equipment without grid connection.
Greenhouses & Hydroponic Setups
Power climate control, lighting, and automated systems. Ensure your greenhouse and hydroponic operations continue with reliable backup power for heating, cooling, and growth systems.
Agricultural Workshops & Machinery Sheds
Power workshop tools, electric tractors, harvesters, and automated machinery. Keep your agricultural workshops and machinery sheds operational with reliable backup power for equipment and tools.
Technical Highlights – Advanced Agricultural Energy Solutions
LBSA agricultural batteries are engineered to meet the specific demands of farms, smallholdings, irrigation systems, greenhouses, and livestock operations. Built for reliability, efficiency, and safety, our systems ensure uninterrupted power for critical farm operations while integrating seamlessly with solar and hybrid energy solutions. From scalable capacity to advanced safety features, every detail is designed to provide dependable performance and long-term energy security for your agricultural property.
| Hot-Swappable Modules | Need to replace a module during harvest season? No problem. The HV-104-14WFRE allows hot-swapping of modules, regardless of their state of charge. The system's internal balancer automatically discharges higher-voltage modules to match the rest, ensuring seamless performance and minimal disruption to your farming operations. |
| Wire-Free Design | Forget complicated wiring diagrams and tangled installations in dusty farm environments. The HV-104-14WFRE uses a wire-free design, reducing setup time, eliminating wiring errors, and ensuring a safer, cleaner installation perfect for agricultural settings. |
| Seamless CAN Communication Failover | Downtime during critical farming periods? Not on our watch. If a Master battery in your rack fails, the system automatically promotes a Slave battery to take over communication with the inverter. This failover mechanism happens instantly, keeping your irrigation pumps, processing equipment, and other critical systems running smoothly with zero downtime. You can scale this setup up to 62 racks in parallel, reaching a massive 5.4MW capacity—perfect for large-scale agricultural operations. |
| Easy Module Securing | Easily secure the controller and module in place with a secure drawer lock, protecting your investment from theft and ensuring reliable operation in farm environments. |
| Hot Battery Swapping Made Effortless | Our bidirectional current limiter allows you to add a new battery regardless of its state of charge or voltage. It intelligently balances itself by either charging or discharging at up to 10A—no specialist tools or knowledge required. Future expansion or battery replacement has never been easier, perfect for growing agricultural operations. |
| Large Expansion | Parallel up to 60 batteries with auto master-slave assigning, ideal for scaling up your agricultural energy storage as your farm operations grow. |
| Powerful Bidirectional Current Limiter | Current limiting: Our smart controlled current limiter can limit the current going in to or out of the battery at 15 amps to ensure your batteries, whether adding or servicing, can resynchronize effortlessly. Module balancing: The current limiter doubles as a module balancer allowing your newly added battery modules voltage to be synchronized into the battery seamlessly. |
| Independent Charge and Discharge Control | Battery over discharged? No problem with our double contactor diode approach. Your battery can continue waiting for a charge while not giving any power out, protecting your valuable cells. Contactor AUX feedback: All contactors in the LBSA HV battery feature auxiliary feedback so that we are aware of any contactor failure. Charge termination while allowing discharge: LBSA HV allows for your battery to be able to be discharge while not allowing charge in case of a cell over voltage. This comes in handy when you need your modules or cells to balance whilst not interrupting the rest of the battery banks. Breaker with trip and feedback function: We will know if the breaker is not closed ensuring that little bit of extra safety by promoting you to close the breaker. We can also disengage the contactors in the event the breaker has been turned off. In the event of contactor failure the battery can trip the breaker if need be. |
Key Benefits for Agricultural Customers
LBSA batteries are designed to keep your farm running smoothly, efficiently, and sustainably. From protecting livestock to powering irrigation and machinery, discover how our energy solutions benefit agricultural operations of all sizes.
| Fast Assembly | Wire-free, quick-lock drawer system enables fast, effortless installation of modules and controllers—no tools or screws required, perfect for busy farming schedules. |
| Wire-Free Design | Clean, safe, and efficient setup with zero tangled wires or complex diagrams, ideal for dusty farm environments. |
| Flexible Module Configuration | Use anywhere from 3 to 11 modules to match your inverter requirements and budget, scaling with your agricultural needs. |
| Hot-Swappable Modules | Easily replace modules during operation, regardless of state of charge—system balances them automatically, ensuring continuous farm operations. |
| Hot Battery Swapping | Add or replace batteries regardless of voltage or charge. The system balances them automatically at up to 10A, perfect for expanding agricultural operations. |
| Large Expansion Capability | Scale up to 60 batteries in parallel, supporting everything from small family farms to large agricultural enterprises. |
| Seamless CAN Communication Failover | If the Master battery fails, a Slave takes over instantly, maintaining uninterrupted inverter communication for critical agricultural equipment. |
| Battery Synchronization | Easily add a new battery to the system. Powerful internal balancer syncs charge and voltage with the rest of the rack. |
| Smart Adaptive Charging/Discharging | Can handle startup surges (up to 300A) for high-load agricultural equipment like irrigation pumps, grain dryers, or processing machinery. |
| Independent Charge & Discharge Control | In fault conditions, only the affected function shuts down—rest of the system remains operational, ensuring continuous farm operations. |
| Built-In Inverter Pre-Charge Protection | Prevents power surges by supplying a steady 10A current for safe inverter energisation, protecting sensitive agricultural equipment. |
| Easy Module Securing | Secure drawer-lock design keeps modules and controllers safely in place, protecting your investment in farm environments. |
| Quick-Lock Drawer System | Enables rapid tool-free installation or swapping of modules and controllers, minimizing downtime during critical farming periods. |
| Built-In Fire Suppression | Internal safety mechanism activates in case of overheating, blocking fire spread at the source, essential for agricultural safety. |
| Secondary Trip Protection | Extra safety layer via a dedicated breaker to protect against short circuits or contactor failures, ensuring farm safety. |
| Contactor Feedback Monitoring | Real-time AUX feedback allows quick fault detection and diagnostic response, enabling proactive maintenance. |
| Energy-Efficient Contactors | Each contactor uses only 2W, minimizing standby energy consumption and reducing operational costs. |
| High-Precision SOC Monitoring | Shunt-based system delivers accurate state-of-charge readings for optimal battery health tracking and energy management. |
| Connectivity & Interface Simplicity | Includes RJ45/CAN terminators and plug-in positive/negative connectors for quick, secure communication and power connections. |
Frequently Asked Questions – Agricultural Energy Solutions
Choosing the right energy solution for your agricultural operation can raise many questions. From system sizing and solar integration to safety features and scalability, understanding all aspects of your energy setup is essential. This FAQ section provides clear answers to the most common questions from farmers, agricultural businesses, and rural operations. Our aim is to help you make informed decisions and invest in reliable, safe, and efficient energy solutions with confidence.
The Rhino Intelliflex HV battery is ideal for agricultural operations that demand reliable, high-capacity energy storage. This includes crop farms, livestock operations, processing facilities, greenhouses, cold storage facilities, and agricultural equipment operations. Its scalable design allows it to support operations ranging from small family farms to large-scale agricultural enterprises. Whether it's powering irrigation systems, processing equipment, climate control, or electric farm vehicles, the HV battery ensures uninterrupted, stable energy supply.
Yes. The HV battery is designed to integrate seamlessly with agricultural solar PV systems and hybrid setups. Using advanced CAN Bus communication, it works with popular inverters like GoodWe, Sungrow, and others. This allows agricultural operations to store excess solar energy, reduce grid reliance, and manage energy flow efficiently for both day-to-day operations and backup power during outages. Perfect for powering irrigation pumps, processing equipment, and other agricultural loads.
The HV battery is built for longevity with unlimited cycle capability under normal operating conditions. With proper installation and operation, it can reliably provide power for 10+ years in agricultural environments. Its advanced battery chemistry and thermal management ensure long-term performance, even under high-load agricultural usage and varying environmental conditions.
Absolutely. Safety is a key feature for agricultural applications. The HV battery includes:
- Battery Management System (BMS): Monitors voltage, temperature, and current to prevent overcharging or deep discharge.
- Thermal Protection: Maintains safe operating temperatures under heavy agricultural loads.
- Fire Suppression-Ready Technology: Adds an extra layer of safety in rare thermal runaway events.
- Dust and Weather Resistance: Designed to handle agricultural environments with proper installation.
These features make it suitable for farms, processing facilities, and other agricultural environments where safety and reliability are critical.
Yes. Its high-capacity design allows it to power essential agricultural systems such as irrigation pumps, processing equipment, cold storage, livestock feeding systems, and climate control during blackouts. Agricultural operations can continue with minimal disruption while avoiding potential losses due to power interruptions, protecting crops, livestock, and processed products.
The battery is fully modular. Multiple units can be connected in parallel to scale storage capacity according to the energy demand of an agricultural operation. This means a farm can start with a smaller installation and expand as operations grow, ensuring flexibility for crop farms, livestock operations, processing facilities, or greenhouses without needing a full system redesign.
Maintenance is minimal for agricultural applications. Operations should:
- Monitor the BMS dashboard for alerts or warnings.
- Ensure the installation area is clean and well-ventilated.
- Periodically inspect battery connections and enclosures.
- Keep the area free from excessive dust and moisture.
LBSA also provides professional servicing and support, making it easy to manage even large agricultural installations.
The battery enables agricultural operations to:
- Store solar energy during daylight hours for use at night.
- Perform peak shaving, reducing grid demand during high-tariff periods.
- Shift load to optimize electricity costs with time-of-use tariffs.
- Reduce diesel generator usage and associated fuel costs.
This approach significantly reduces monthly electricity bills while increasing energy independence for agricultural operations.
Yes. The modular nature of the Rhino Intelliflex HV battery allows deployment across multiple agricultural sites or zones. Energy can be managed centrally or distributed, ensuring consistent and reliable power across crop fields, livestock facilities, processing plants, or multiple farm locations.
LBSA offers end-to-end support for agricultural installations:
- Site Assessment: Identify energy needs and optimal placement for agricultural operations.
- System Design & Configuration: Tailor modular HV battery arrays to meet specific agricultural loads.
- Commissioning & Testing: Ensure the system is installed and performing according to specifications.
- Ongoing Technical Support: Access expert assistance for troubleshooting, updates, and performance optimization.
This ensures that every agricultural customer receives a safe, efficient, and reliable energy storage solution.