Battery Solution for Highway Tolling and ITS Cabinets
Every highway tolling lane and roadside intelligent transportation system (ITS) cabinet depends on power that never sleeps. When the grid drops, a barrier…
Battery Solution Performance for Workshops
When I walk into a customer’s fabrication shop to spec a battery system, the first thing I ask is not how many kilowatt hours they want. It is what breaks…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Railway Crossing Signals
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. For the past decade I have specified stationary batteries for safety-critical infrastruc…
Battery Solution for Airfield Ground Lighting
I have spent most of the past decade building lithium packs that must work when nobody is watching. Airfield ground lighting is the hardest version of that…
Home Energy Storage Sump Pump and Basement Backup
Basements flood for boring reasons. A sump pump that has run without complaint for three years quits at two in the morning because the float switch caught…
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…
Home Energy Storage Integration for Cabins
I have commissioned home energy storage systems in cabins from the Adirondacks to the Carpathians, and I can tell you this: the battery is almost never the…