Battery Basics
Equalize Your Boat Battery for More Power
Nothing stays perfect forever. We get plaque on our teeth, and our tummies get a…
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Lead-Acid Batteries Keep Rolling On
The lead acid battery industry is a bit like Old Man River. We shoulder the…
Battery Basics
How You Use Your Laptop Battery, Carefully
UK consumer group Which? has been ruffling feathers since 1957, when Britain was experiencing trading…
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How Lithium-Ion Batteries Really Work
Lithium-ion batteries are so common nowadays we sometimes wonder whether hardware stores sell batteries with…
Battery Technical
Energy: The Source of Work and Heat
When we struggle for a definition, we remind ourselves that portable energy in batteries is…
Battery Technical
How the War of Currents Gave Us 110 Volts AC
Thomas Edison launched his 110 Volt DC grid in 1882 in the face of stiff…
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Thomas Edison and the 110-Volt Light Bulb
Thomas Edison was a serial inventor. He began his career tinkering with telegraphy equipment before…
Battery Basics
Different Volt Standards in Use Today
While watts measure the flow of electricity, volts are the potential in networks and batteries…
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Measuring All the Magnitudes of Watts
While our ancestors may have only begun to harness electricity a few centuries ago, energy…
Battery Basics
Understanding Kilowatt-Hours in Practice
Kilowatt-hours are the measure of the electricity we consume, and mostly pay for unless we…