Battery Solution for Seismic and Geological Monitoring
I have spent much of my career sizing battery packs for equipment nobody is supposed to visit, and seismic and geological monitoring stations sit at the fa…
Battery Solution for Exhibition and Trade Show Displays
Every show season I get the same call from exhibit houses: the booth design is signed off, the LED wall is ordered, and then someone reads the venue order…
Lithium Battery for Electric Outboard and Small Craft
Most electric outboard conversations start with a fuel bill. A centre console burning 60 litres of petrol on a day’s running is a boat that gets used less…
Battery Solution for Satellite Ground Station Backup
I have spent enough nights in equipment shelters to know that a satellite ground station is one of the least forgiving places to lose power. A low Earth o…
Home Energy Storage Winter Performance and Derating
I install home energy storage in cold-climate homes and every November my service inbox fills with the same three questions: “Why does my battery die at th…
Lithium Battery for Vending and Unattended Retail
After twelve years designing lithium battery packs for commercial equipment, I can tell you that most vending machines never need one — the machine is plug…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Two-Wheeler Fleets
In the last eighteen months, fleet operators from Jakarta to Nairobi have asked me the same question in almost the same words: can a sodium-ion battery sur…
Battery Solution for Water and Wastewater Monitoring
I have spent more than a decade specifying industrial battery packs for remote and unmanned sites, and water infrastructure keeps teaching me the same less…
Home Energy Storage Tax Credits and Incentive Programs
I have spent eleven years specifying residential and light commercial lithium battery systems, and the single most expensive mistake I see has nothing to d…
Lithium Battery Cell Balancing: Passive vs Active Methods
Every lithium battery pack I have torn down after a field failure tells the same story in the data log: the cells did not fail together. One cell drifted,…