Home Energy Storage Grounding and Neutral Bonding for
During the 2023 field season I commissioned more than forty residential battery systems, and the single fault that delayed the most inspections was not the…
Lithium Battery for Solar Water Pumping Systems
Over the last decade I have commissioned lithium battery banks for more than forty off-grid and hybrid solar water pumping sites, from smallholder irrigati…
Home Energy Storage for Multi-Generation Households
When three generations share one roof, the home stops being a simple electricity consumer and becomes a small, always-on critical facility. In my work as a…
Home Energy Storage for Well Pumps and Rural Water Supply
When a rural household loses grid power, it loses more than lights. The well pump stops, the pressure tank bleeds down, and within hours there is no runnin…
Lithium Battery for RV Systems: Performance and Sizing
When I audit recreational vehicle electrical systems, the same story comes up at almost every campsite: the owner has replaced an ageing lead-acid house ba…
Lithium Battery for Floor Scrubbers and Cleaning Robots
Walk into any distribution center at 6 a.m. and the floor scrubbers are already running. What most fleet managers do not realize is that the battery, not t…
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…
Sodium-Ion Battery Water-Based Electrode Processing
Water-based electrode processing keeps coming up because it removes the most expensive and most regulated fluid on the coating line. I have run NMP and aqu…
Semi-Solid State Battery Post-Mortem Failure Analysis
When a semi-solid state battery comes back from the field, the most expensive mistake is calling it dead, scrapping it, and moving on. Every returned cell…
Lithium Battery for Film Lighting: Flicker-Free Power Budget
On a documentary shoot in Oman we lost forty minutes to a fault that was neither the fixture nor the camera. Six 300 W LED panels were pulling from a 26 V…