Title :
The “Green light” lies. How to maximize the service life of a battery fleet by utilizing a battery maintenance program
Author :
Buchmann, Isidor
Author_Institution :
Cadex Electron. Inc., Burnaby, BC, Canada
Abstract :
Great effort is being made to pack more energy into a battery. Long run-time and small size are the virtues sought for today´s portable devices. But without a system to continuously weed out batteries beyond recovery, the benefit of expensive, ultrahigh capacity batteries is defeated. This paper examines battery fleet maintenance and methods to prolong battery life. The choice of battery analyser is discussed
Keywords :
battery testers; maintenance engineering; secondary cells; testing; battery analyser; battery fleet service life; battery life extension; battery maintenance program; battery service life maximisation; portable devices; ultrahigh capacity batteries; Aging; Batteries; Chemistry; Degradation; Electric breakdown; Electronic mail; Maintenance; Runtime; Switches; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Battery Conference on Applications and Advances, 1999. The Fourteenth Annual
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4967-9
DOI :
10.1109/BCAA.1999.796000
