Lithium Battery Integration for Power Tools
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade integrating lithium battery packs into cordless power tools…
Lithium Battery Safety for Power Tools
Over the last twelve years as a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have torn down, load-tested, and field-tracked hundreds of cordless too…
Lithium Battery Manufacturing for Power Tools
I have spent the better part of a decade on the production floor, and if there is one lesson that survives every product cycle it is this: a lithium batter…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: A Factory
I have lost count of how many tool packs I have torn down that looked perfect on paper and failed the first time a real current profile hit them. After twe…
Lithium Battery Design for Power Tools: Engineering the
When most people think about a cordless drill, they think about torque settings and chuck size. As a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the last…
Lithium Battery Cost Optimization Power Tools
I have spent the better part of a decade on the factory floor and in the cost-engineering office, and if there is one myth I want to kill it is this: that…
Lithium Battery Reliability for Power Tools: Engineering a
Why Power-Tool Duty Cycles Break Packs Differently
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade qualifyi…
Lithium Battery Performance for Power Tools: Pulse-Duty
When a contractor drives a 40V brushless circular saw through a stack of OSB and the motor bogs down on the last third of the cut, the complaint is always…
Lithium Battery Design for Power Tools: How Engineers Build
I have spent the better part of twelve years designing cells into packs, and I still tell new engineers on my team the same thing: power tools are the most…
Lithium Battery Cost Optimization for Power Tools
Every product manager who has ever priced a cordless power tool eventually asks the same question: how do we make the battery cheaper without making it dan…