Lithium Battery State of Charge Calibration Best Practices
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have lost count of how many “faulty” battery packs were returned to us with nothing ac…
Drone Battery Safety: Preventing Thermal Runaway in Flight
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent more years than I care to count on the failure bench—cutting open swollen packs,…
Battery Export Certifications
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have watched more than one promising export shipment get turned away at a border because a single…
Home Battery Maintenance and Lifespan
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have watched homeowners celebrate a new home energy storage installation and then forget about it…
Home Energy Storage Inverter Selection
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have commissioned dozens of residential systems, and the inverter is consistently the component ho…
Battery Selection for Multirotor vs Fixed-Wing Drones
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade on the test bench watching the same mistake repeat itself:…
How a Battery Solution Provider Reduces Your Time-to-Market
Every product team I meet has the same lament: the battery is the last thing designed and the first thing to blow the schedule. As a senior lithium battery…
Home Energy Storage Safety and Installation Best Practices
Residential battery storage has moved from a niche enthusiast project to a mainstream home upgrade, and with that growth comes a hard truth I repeat to eve…
Commercial and Industrial Lithium Storage: Sizing and Safety
When a factory, warehouse, or telecom site asks me to size a stationary lithium battery system, the conversation is never about the headline capacity numbe…
Drone Battery Fast Charging
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade on the factory floor watching drone fleets sit idle because…