This new technology from RGEI requires only three connections and can handle charging currents as high as 300 Amps and loads to 100 Amps.

The system automatically connects the AGM battery to the charging current when the alternator output exceeds the charging demands of the vehicle start battery. When the ignition is turned off, the system automatically isolates the AGM battery from the vehicle start battery. The system is smart and takes action to protect the chemistry of the AGM battery during discharge cycles. This ensures that the life of the AGM battery will be extended over many years.

The system has several modes and can be configured to make use of a field configuration option to set a maximum support time after the ignition is turned off. The system itself draws minimal power. The system will automatically detect when a battery charger is connected to the system and switch in the AGM battery for charging even if the charger is connected across the vehicle start battery.

Excited Delirium (ED) is a controversial term used to explain deaths of individuals in police custody, in which the person being arrested, detained, or restrained is highly agitated and may be under the influence of stimulants.

It has been listed as a cause of death by some medical examiners and this cause of death only appears where law enforcement is involved in restraining individuals. The term has no formal medical recognition and is not recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Excited Delirium (ED) has been described as "a state of extreme mental and physiological excitement," characterized by exceptional agitation and hyperactivity, overheating, excessive tearing of the eyes, hostility, superhuman strength, aggression, acute paranoia, and "endurance without apparent fatigue."

Officers confronting an ED person will likely notice them acting in a bizarre manner, often partially clothed or naked. The person (usually male) will likely be incoherent or speaking in a manner difficult to understand or misinterpreted as a foreign language. He'll be yelling or screaming loudly, seem to be disoriented or hallucinating and may be foaming at the mouth or drooling. He may be sweating profusely and his body temperature soaring, but receiving no relief through his perspiration.

Generally the ED symptoms are well underway when officers arrive; however, there are rare instances in which a subject is speaking calmly with officers and then suddenly explodes into an ED episode.

As officers attempts to gain physical control of an ED subject, they will be confronted with "extraordinary strength." It will likely take several officers to overcome his determined resistance and immunity to pain. The person may appear to be breathing at an extraordinary rate and his temperature could spike significantly, this may be followed by a period of sudden tranquility.

At this point, the officers should realize the subject is at high risk of respiratory failure and immediate medical attention is needed. Invariably, if the person suffers from respiratory failure, resuscitation efforts often fail."

1. Police and medical personnel should develop a coordinated approach for dealing with ED incidents.
   
   
2. Dispatchers should be trained to recognize and question for indicators of ED so that responding officers can be cautioned before reaching the scene. ED events should be a multiple-officer response. More importantly, EMS should be dispatched to stand-by at a safe distance. EMS should become involved as early as possible following subject being restrained.
   

3. Unless there is an immediate public safety threat, the first responding officers should focus on containing the subject versus making contact. Unless there are compelling reasons to do otherwise, officers should not approach the individual until substantial backup and medical personnel are on the scene.
   
   
4. Once sufficient numbers are on hand, including medical personnel, police's primary goal is getting the subject under control as quickly and safely as possible. This person needs immediate medical treatment, but this cannot begin until he has been brought under control.
   
   
5. In considering tactics, be mindful that persons suffering from ED are often characterized as having superhuman strength and imperviousness to pain. Thus, control through empty-hand pain-compliance techniques may be relatively ineffective. The use of chemical agents (pepper spray) or impact weapons have diminished effects since they will likely be unresponsive to pain. Also, subjects are typically unresponsive to verbal direction; that makes the most effective method to subdue them the use of sufficient officers to physically control the person's movement. A final choice not mentioned may be Conducted Energy Devices (Tasers). However, current research cautions about a possible link "between MULTIPLE such applications and death in persons with symptoms of ED. To mitigate this risk, a SINGLE Taser application should be made before the subject has been exhausted."
   
   (The Taser should be used not in the hope of gaining compliance but to create a window of disablement during which officers can establish physical control of the subject.) One Taser firing in the probe mode, "followed by a restraint technique that does not impair respiration, may provide the optimum outcome." NOTE: "The Taser should not be used in the pain-distraction (push/stun) mode in dealing with ED individuals," since that is primarily a pain-reliant technique. Whatever the tactical approach being used, set your multi-officer techniques quickly, otherwise officers very likely could end up working against each other."
   
   
6. Adjust your restraint tactics: officers are almost universally trained to place individuals into a prone position because of safety and control advantages. This position may make it more difficult for the person to breathe, and this concern is heightened when dealing with ED." Therefore, once control is achieved, "the subject should be placed on his side if this can be done without creating an unreasonable risk to officers or others. Once the person is controlled, it is paramount that EMS personnel begin treatment.