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tw · 10-11-2012, 01:32 PM

A nation that innovates owns the battery industry. We have only just started to understand a technology even used in the 1970s. That even made possible 24 hours HBO.

Some current technologies are the original Lithium Ion, Lithium Ion Polymer, and Lithium Iron Phosphate. Variations exist for each chemistry. Each varies with temperature, load, recharge time and algorithm, ability to hold a charge, weight, power density, cycle life, energy density, and safety. All expensive solutions to a problems made irrelevant by a simpler solution.

That old technology battery has one limitation. It must be recharged, at longest, monthly to not self destruct. Some trickle chargers recharge deeper into the little parts of a battery. Others only top off the battery resulting in a recessionary and eventually failing battery.

In this new lithium economy, trickle charging is often destructive.

10-11-2012, 01:32 PM	#8
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	A nation that innovates owns the battery industry. We have only just started to understand a technology even used in the 1970s. That even made possible 24 hours HBO. Some current technologies are the original Lithium Ion, Lithium Ion Polymer, and Lithium Iron Phosphate. Variations exist for each chemistry. Each varies with temperature, load, recharge time and algorithm, ability to hold a charge, weight, power density, cycle life, energy density, and safety. All expensive solutions to a problems made irrelevant by a simpler solution. That old technology battery has one limitation. It must be recharged, at longest, monthly to not self destruct. Some trickle chargers recharge deeper into the little parts of a battery. Others only top off the battery resulting in a recessionary and eventually failing battery. In this new lithium economy, trickle charging is often destructive. Last edited by tw; 10-11-2012 at 01:42 PM.