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Read this article, you would have a new understanding of laptop and cell phone batteries

Posted by admin on February 26, 2010
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Lithium batteries nickel metal hydride and maintenance, while not as stringent, but there are many problems, some friends say that lithium RN873 GW240 batteries are not fully charge and discharge for use with the filling is like, this approach is wrong, the battery after all the battery according to Russian experts, lithium batteries, or the need for better formal charge and discharge, it is preferable to use battery once a month to limit its depth of discharge, also known as the staying power of the battery is exhausted, and then achieve a full charge, continuous three times, such an approach can continue to battery performance. We can see that the depth of lithium batteries is also necessary to load and unload

 

For laptops, the battery can be considered a more important component, its performance is directly related to the environment of the laptop in the absence of power in the ability to work. The notebook batteries can be considered a public component in another letter of consumables, it involves keeping the laptop battery and reasonable use of this forum is often discussed question. Regarding the laptop batteries at the time set aside to save much more than what should stay and whether the use of power when you remove the battery problems are not always what a unified response. Vostro 1000 battery Inspiron 510m battery

 

Generally, the lithium batteries in a life cycle can be 300 to 500 times more charge-discharge. So many people think, so using less energy, while it may to some extent, played a role in prolonging the life of the battery. But they ignore the original battery that the physical nature of the end, when the battery assembly line, that’s life internal clock will then start walking. So even if you do not set aside the battery life of lithium was only two to three years, one can arrive at an end. Battery capacity due to reasons of this decline was due to oxidation caused by the battery internal resistance increases. When the resistance of the electrolytic cell reaches a certain point, but this time the battery still be full of electricity, but the battery has not been able to release the stored electricity.

 

Overall, in order not to make your premature loss of the role of the PC764 Y9943 battery, then the use of normal, you should try to comply with the following principles:

 

A. avoid a complete discharge, and often for lithium batteries. Repeated damage arbitrarily rechargeable lithium battery is very low, almost negligible.

B. will need to continue to hold lithium batteries placed in the shade, remember not to refrigerate. Avoid placing hot car, as a time to save the battery to 40% in place.

C. Most of the time if you use a power supply fixed, please remove the batteries placed in the shade.

D. no needs to buy batteries lithium spare storage, so this piece is actually a waste of battery.

The cells are induced to use, so that attention to the rational use and conservation methods, it is not necessary to deal with their excess, which makes it possible for us to “contribution” is the more important. Similarly mobile phones! hp Pavilion dv4 battery  hp Pavilion dv6 battery

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Improve the measurement and analysis of successful economic and practical back-up battery monitoring program (part 2)

Posted by admin on February 25, 2010
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Monitoring Technology

 

This article does not detail the surveillance techniques as described below, a brief description of their behavior. PA3285U-2BRS PA3285U-3BRS

 

One by one, to feed test signals into a single cell, without requiring the entire battery in high current, there was no connection to the DC system external interference. Bipolar test signal using the original algorithm is modified, but the results show that the reliability of the signal pole. However, when tested with a unipolar signal, the DC drift. Easy to eliminate this drift and can not maintain all data features, which is characterized by precise determination of parameters needed. Use of frequency scanning signal pulse method rearrangement of different frequencies (including the test signal), allows the response of the battery voltage curves coincide with the book.

 

Once the curve derived from the potential to become a rule, you can set the firmware algorithm that style drift and eliminating it and thus be suitable for direct input algorithm Sentinel, the average zero-sets of data voltage. This method can be reduced to the drift error of 0.1%, it will not cause a significant distortion of the data sets. Therefore, measurements of signal can also be used in the algorithm, so that the accuracy of equivalent circuit parameters above. Vostro 1310 battery Vostro 1320 battery

 

Dealing with many measurement functions and algorithms have been integrated in a monolithic integrated circuit. Sentinel module can measure a single monomer battery, also measured on all 12V battery). Up to 250 measuring points are the forms module for measurement, the measurement results can be submitted by a data bus dedicated to the battery from the data recorder, S-Box. In large systems the battery may be a few stocks such as data flow synthesis, which is a management system locally or remotely, can make use of the S-Box in the embedded web server through a bus standard or an Internet connection to use these data streams.

 

SOC by using measures to determine the actual status of each battery can not only provide fault detection, near this sophisticated monitoring framework will be able to have functions; can also configure other functions and services. Vostro 1400 battery Vostro 1510 battery

 

For example, the battery internal resistance within a single cell is usually different. Over time, this state will be a problem. SoC intelligent control system can quickly detect this single cell, the terminal voltage optimization system can be transferred can not continue to charge a single battery floating around the news…

 

Real-time charge management can extend the battery life: In the voltage across the same situation, VRLA battery float in the current ratio flooded high-tech batteries. This may accelerate corrosion of the anode plate, which reduces the effective life of the battery up to 30%. On the life of a certain percentage of the float can be reduced to eliminate this bad effect. However, these side effects on the life cycle is also an advantage is to reduce the incidence of thermal runaway.

 

Installing a battery pack can also provide the full life cycle of the voltage and temperature records, that manufacturers and users use. Vostro 1520 battery Vostro 1710 battery

 

Over-discharge protection cons: the device in the charger / UPS systems are common, especially in the battery monitor, they are based on the average voltage of individual cells of the termination of the landfill to protect the battery. However, the poor performance of the voltage across the battery may be much lower than the average voltage in the battery, but also in its termination voltage is reached before the landfill was good. Therefore, the development of a dynamic high-accuracy ‘Time to Run (outstanding Running)’ algorithm, in any single cell will be depleted when an alert is given.

 

Monitoring of battery backup required parameter as detailed as possible in order to generate the most accurately reflects the results of the battery status. This is not just a technical problem, is also an economic issue. Avoid battery failure is essential, but replaced prematurely and did not even approach the end of the battery life is extremely profitable. In addition to the measurement of each battery voltage, impedance and discharge performance, LEM will also measure the internal temperature of the battery is defined as a standard feature, is a leading global position. LEM is currently developing a magnetic flux sensor technology is to float, with a resolution greater than 10mA, with little or no drift in temperature, high discharge current with almost no residual magnetism, measurement repeatability better quality. The integration of these advanced features, the battery monitor is more expensive systems, but the overall life of extreme cost-effective management system. Vostro 1720 battery Vostro 2510 battery

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Improve the measurement and analysis of successful economic and practical back-up battery monitoring program (part 1)

Posted by admin on February 24, 2010
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Supporting the infrastructure of modern society must be based on a very high operational reliability. Internet and telecommunications switching center server farms to ensure nearly 100% of the sentence, without run-time “or availability of the system, they rely primarily on a very mature technology – lead-acid batteries , while the center of data storage used in high technology. Typically, these key nodes, and many other important areas are equipped with standby power, the supply of electricity in standby mode is usually the inverter top-level inverter pairs of VRLA (VRLA) battery or a similar benefit, sealed gel cell battery assembly section of energy conversion. ThinkPad T43 battery ThinkPad T60 battery

 

The reason why traditional techniques are widely used, there are many reasons, including lead-acid batteries affordable, but also with exceptional reliability. But while Great but not perfect. VRLA battery life is limited (generally 12 years of life from conception), often mission-critical systems using the battery as a source of backup power, but changed regularly. Failure may indeed occur. In a typical standby power, the role of the battery as its name – they still maintain a fully charged state to await the primary power failure. And when fully responsible for the prosecution small current through the float “charge to keep. If the float current is below a ceiling, then the battery in the gas produced by electrolysis will be re-chemical combination. In this case, a single voltage battery float is slightly higher than the standard value of 2.27 V, may also damage the battery. A little more tension will cause precipitation of the electrolyte capacity of more recombination more gas, these gases are not handled by the overflow valve. If the battery temperature is too high, even if the charging voltage is appropriate, can lead to loss of electrolytes. XPS M1330 battery XPS M1530 battery

 

Other methods of early termination of sulfation, columns and very bad network connection, the connection plate to the network and evil, the stratification of electrolyte and a grid to accelerate corrosion. There is still another, if a failure mode low, but catastrophic – thermal runaway, which is peculiar to VRLA gel batteries, and a failure mode can lead to catching fire. The only way to avoid thermal runaway is to control the internal temperature of the battery.

 

Simply monitoring the battery voltage on the detection of lead-acid battery capacity decline in the role is very limited, it has been recognized in the industry. When the battery performance diminishes, it is usually presented is that the nominal voltage, until the release of large currents can only apparent, but when its capacity has been considerably reduced voltage drop prematurely. By measuring the proportion of electrolyte to determine the condition of the battery accurately, the method of the VRLA or sealed gel batteries do not apply; routine battery of tests used in the only way is to discharge the battery to a state controlled the next, but this approach need to stop using the battery. In addition, the depth of discharge also reduces the battery life of lead-acid; in on a regular basis to conduct its test of the backup battery discharge, and its principal power with high reliability of the system, most programs use this test to determine the battery life. XPS M1730 battery XPS M2010 battery

 

Recently, continuous monitoring may be a non-interference electronic method of detecting a single cell near the failed state, this method can not only save costs, while maintaining overall system availability. The predecessor of these systems is usually measured cell or battery (battery industry term meaning that the shell in the same package multiple battery) voltage – despite its limitations is well known – with charge / discharge current and temperature ambient. Some systems attempt to guess the extent or strength of the internal battery, its effectiveness varies.

 

LEM Sentinel system is dependent on basic parameters of a simple analog measurement of change leading product has now become the first of three generations of the Sentinel III. It is tailored in a single chip SoC (System on Chip) IC on the integration of analog and digital technologies. The device configured in a measured terminal voltage, the temperature of the internal battery and internal resistance of the module, can provide accurate measurement results for the cost of new in most of the configuration of the backup system can afford in the budget system is the design of a key. Studio 1536 battery Studio 1537 battery

 

Battery temperature and / or exponential growth, the value of internal impedance (Figure 1), which are close to the failure of instructions, data recording system to monitor trends in data over time to identify possible approaches fail. All modules are configured Sentinel III with a probe for measuring the outside temperature or the patch can be bound directly to a single cell or battery casing to accurately monitor the battery temperature as much as possible.

 

Exponential curve means that the failure difficult to detect early, but the last part of the performance degradation very quickly.

 

 

 The battery is used or is being loaded, you can use a mature technology assessment of the internal impedance. Typically, the float voltage superimposed DC measuring low AC voltage and AC current at that time, and then measure the results of the projection of the internal impedance, the methods of specific implementation are different. However, this method has limitations, it can not cope with a form of the exponential curve. And expiring at the failure process of a single cell in the data recorder of their failure to recognize the trends appeared in good condition, on the contrary, the problems of failure, the battery may be short term be completely ineffective. Studio 1555 battery Studio 15 battery

 

LEM has developed a more sophisticated algorithm, which can be detected as early as possible is a single cell performance decay. The result is a methods test very reliable, it can completely penetrate the energy of a single layer of cells to ensure maximum reliability. It is commonly called the Randles equivalent circuit, based on the performance of the electrochemical cell from the electrical components of a network circuit, each electrical component consisting of a single cell of an associated physical factors.

 

Figure 3 shows the battery life of different parameters in one period of the smooth curve. The same features or capabilities during the discharge period of falling has also been confirmed. All the impedance of the equivalent circuit of factors are to follow curves similar fall in the early stages of failure or capacity, no significant change. If the impedance state to a single main 338794-001 361742-001 battery indicator, it will not provide meaningful guidance, unless the volume down more than 25-30%. Because the industry standard is to replace the provisions of the performance has fallen below 80% of cell performance, it is clear that the importance of early identification of possible failure.

 

However, in the Randles equivalent circuit, there is a parameter in a single battery failure (except for a simple metal corrosion, the parameters of this mode of failure by increasing Rm forthcoming) will start to change, ie CDL-in, double-layer capacitance. Figure 3 below Natiao curves of their properties; In addition, the stage performance in the ordinary course of normal cells, and the assumption that power is fully charged batteries failed, its curved shape is similar Cdl. Studio 17 battery Studio 1735 battery

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