Timeline for How to test a lithium battery? [closed]
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| Sep 3, 2018 at 8:04 | history | closed |
Leon Heller Harry Svensson Chris Stratton Maple Dmitry Grigoryev |
Needs more focus | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 4:38 | comment | added | Maple | Battery specs can be roughly separated into a) performance characteristics (capacity, self-discharge, discharge graph etc.) and b) maximum ratings (the ones on your list). "Testing" by end-users usually involves the former. Maximum ratings were already tested in laboratory and set by manufacturer as safe limits. You cannot "test" for them unless you exceed the limit, see the smoke and say "oops... yeah, those 100 degrees is really correct thermal cut-off" | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 2:53 | comment | added | user57037 | Cycle them with an automatic cycler. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 2:52 | answer | added | K H | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 23:53 | comment | added | Dampmaskin | Testing maximum continuous discharge current can be destructive. Same with testing high temperature cut-off. Are you prepared to sacrifice batteries for testing, and are you prepared to deal with electrical/chemical fires? | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 19:29 | comment | added | Elliot Alderson | Be very careful doing this. If you accidentally exceed the maximum ratings you could have a nasty fire on your hands. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 19:08 | comment | added | Transistor | Weight, volume, density, energy density, ... | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 18:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 18:39 | comment | added | Leon Heller | You have the specs. There is nothing else! | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 18:28 | history | asked | Alian4life | CC BY-SA 4.0 |