What is an Electric Current? A Simple Explanation
An electric current is a flow of an electric charge between two points. Imagine it…
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Lithium Penny Battery: Warning for Parents
Surgeons at London’s Great Ormond Hospital, the UK’s largest pediatrics center have issued a health…
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What Are Electrodes & What Do They Do?
If you think of an ‘elect-rode’ as being an electric rod, you are close to…
Why Does that Battery Have That Name?
Battery cell formats have changed hugely down the years from the early 1700’s, when the…
Battery Basics
Look Who’s Treading on Tesla Turf
In March 2015 researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute suggested electric car sales will accelerate…
Battery Basics
No Need to Eat Our Socks
All batteries have three basic bits that make our phones work, our cars start, and…
The Sally Miksiewicz Award: “Lead Is Far from Dead”
The day we posted the Bi-polar Battery piece, we got a letter from Gerry Woolf…
Who you gonna call? Batman!
In a follow up to last month’s post about children videos, here is another one,…
How to replace Power Wheels, Peg Perego and Little Tikes batteries
Following up on last week’s toy battery post, we had a repeated question from our…
Tennis Ball Machines – The Perfect Match
Our UPS Battery Center research team just finished looking into tennis ball machines, and we…