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 Safety Profile and Abuse Testing
Over the last three years I have run abuse campaigns on more than forty sodium-ion cell builds in our own test house — 18650 and 26700 cylindricals, 20 Ah…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Residential Solar Self-Consumption
I have spent the last decade specifying cells for UAV packs, telecom backup strings and, more recently, for the garage wall. In the last three years the q…
Battery Solution for Refrigerated Transport Units
Refrigerated transport has quietly become one of the most demanding environments a lithium battery can be asked to survive in. Over the past eleven years I…
Battery Solution Testing for Robotics: HIL Duty-Cycle
What a “Robotics-Grade” Battery Solution Actually Has to Survive
Most cell datasheets are written for either handheld electronics or electric vehicles, so…
Sodium-Ion Battery Deployment for Microgrids (Guide)
I have spent the better part of a decade specifying lithium and sodium battery systems for off-grid and weak-grid sites, and microgrids remain the applicat…
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…