Lithium Battery Maintenance for Solar Kits
Off-grid and hybrid solar kits live or die on how well the lithium battery bank is looked after. I have walked into a cabin in northern Vermont in February…
Lithium Battery Maintenance for Power Tools
If you have ever pulled a dead 18 V pack off the shelf and blamed the cell when the real culprit was a dry contact or a five cent BMS FET, you already know…
Lithium Battery Deployment for Mobility Devices
Why Lithium Battery Deployment for Mobility Devices Is a Different Discipline
Over the past eleven years I have personally signed off on lithium battery pa…
Lithium Battery Deployment for UPS Systems
Over the last decade I have signed off on lithium battery deployment for UPS systems in facilities ranging from a two-cabinet edge closet to a multi-megawa…
Lithium Battery Deployment for Solar Kits
I have commissioned lithium battery packs for off-grid solar kits on three continents — rural clinics, telecom huts, farm outbuildings and a fair num…
Lithium Battery Integration for Mobility Devices
I have spent most of the last four years integrating lithium packs into vehicles that carry people who cannot walk: powered wheelchairs, mobility scooters,…
Lithium Battery Integration for UPS Systems
After twenty-plus years specifying lithium battery systems for industrial customers, I have learned that the word “integration” hides most of the risk on…
Lithium Battery Integration for Solar Kits
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. I have spent nine years integrating lithium battery packs into products that other peop…
Lithium Battery Safety for Mobility Devices
I have spent more than a decade designing lithium battery packs, and the jobs that still keep me awake at night are not the ones with the biggest nameplate…
Lithium Battery Safety for UPS Systems
I have spent more than a decade around battery rooms, and lithium battery safety for UPS duty is the subject where I see the largest gap between what a dat…