Lithium Battery Safety for Solar Kits
I have spent more than a decade designing and qualifying lithium battery packs for OEM customers, and the category that generates the most field complaints…
Lithium Battery Manufacturing for Mobility Devices
I have spent most of my career on the manufacturing side of the battery business, and there is one product category that consistently punishes sloppy produ…
Lithium Battery Manufacturing for UPS Systems
When a data center loses grid power, the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) has milliseconds to take over before the load browns out. Over the last nine y…
Lithium Battery Manufacturing for Solar Kits
When a homeowner opens a solar kit box, they rarely think about the factory that built the battery. But after fifteen years on the production floor — runni…
Lithium Battery Testing for Mobility Devices
Every lithium battery for mobility devices we ship leaves the building with the same promise: it will not let a person down when they are halfway across a…
Lithium Battery Testing for UPS Systems
I have spent the better part of fifteen years with a multimeter in one hand and a thermocouple harness in the other, and if there is one application that p…
Lithium Battery Testing for Solar Kits
When a customer asks me how we validate a lithium battery pack before it ships inside a solar kit, I give the same answer I give every procurement manager:…
Lithium Battery Design for Mobility Devices: An Engineer’s
When a powered wheelchair user cannot make it up a curb because the pack sagged under load, the failure is rarely the cells. Nine times out of ten it is th…
Lithium Battery Design for UPS Systems
When a data center, hospital, or factory loses grid power, the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is the only thing standing between the load and a hard sh…
Lithium Battery Design for Solar Kits
When customers ask me to design a lithium battery for a solar kit, they usually start with the wrong question: “What capacity do I need?” After…