Battery Solution for Kiosks: Power Budget and Uptime
Why Kiosk Power Is Its Own Engineering Problem
A self-service kiosk looks simple from the sidewalk. Inside, it is a small data center bolted to the street,…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Small Offices
Small professional offices are the most misunderstood segment in the energy storage market. When a dentist, a two-lawyer firm, or a four-person design stud…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Townhouses
Fourteen attached units, one pad-mounted transformer, eleven identical 100 A services. That row of townhouses is why I stopped reusing my detached-house s…
Battery Solution for Satellite Ground Station Backup
I have spent enough nights in equipment shelters to know that a satellite ground station is one of the least forgiving places to lose power. A low Earth o…
Home Energy Storage Winter Performance and Derating
I install home energy storage in cold-climate homes and every November my service inbox fills with the same three questions: “Why does my battery die at th…
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…
Battery Solution for Water and Wastewater Monitoring
I have spent more than a decade specifying industrial battery packs for remote and unmanned sites, and water infrastructure keeps teaching me the same less…
Home Energy Storage Tax Credits and Incentive Programs
I have spent eleven years specifying residential and light commercial lithium battery systems, and the single most expensive mistake I see has nothing to d…
Lithium Battery Cell Balancing: Passive vs Active Methods
Every lithium battery pack I have torn down after a field failure tells the same story in the data log: the cells did not fail together. One cell drifted,…
Home Energy Storage Monitoring Apps and Data Tracking
I have commissioned several hundred residential systems, and I can tell you exactly which phone call I get most often. It is not about capacity, and it is…