Battery Basics
Different Batteries for a Changing World
There was a time when there were no power stations and utility grids. Therefore, if…
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Battery Basics
Battery Basics
Voltage Current Power and Capacity
Customers sometimes ask us to provide a definition for one or other of the above…
Battery Basics
Battery Memory Effect and Self-Discharge
We touched on how battery performance gradually degrades in our earlier post, as a previously…
Battery Technical
The Miracle of Recharging a Battery
We have reached a point in our story where a battery has cycled most of…
Battery Technical
The Secret Battery Manager Electrolyte
Our first two posts in this short series spoke of the electrodes in a battery,…
Battery Technical
Standard Potentials for Half Reactions
We described how the chemistry works in a battery in our previous post, and we…
Battery Experiments
Benjamin Franklin’s Early Electrical Experiment
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneer American writer, scientist, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.…
Battery Basics
Gaston Planté’s Lead Acid Battery Cell
We will probably never know what inspired Gaston Plante to create a spiral roll of…
Battery Technical
How the Chemistry in a Battery Works
The chemistry in a battery is remarkably simple in theory, yet what makes it tick…
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Solar Lighthouse in the Sky at Ashalim
Ashalim is a small settlement of some 600 people in the Negev Desert. It is…