Tag: batteries
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What is the Cycle Life of Your Battery?
When you see information about batteries one thing you will often see is the number of cycles they will claim to be able to provide in their lifetime. This figure can be anywhere from 2,000 cycles to 5,000 or even 6,000 cycles. At first glance it might seem that the higher the number of cycles,…
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Is your battery toxic to you or your environment?
One of the things that you should consider when putting battery storage on your home is whether or not the battery chemistry is toxic either in its manufacture or disposal or in its day to day use. Often, one of the reasons that people put solar panels on their house and put in battery storage to…
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What is the best operating temperature for your battery?
Most batteries will operate, with varying degrees of effectiveness in the 5 – 35 °C range so are fine for the autumn and spring operating months, however if you want a battery that will also operate efficiently in winter and summer you need to understand how temperature has an effect on a batteries operating capabilities. The ambient…
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What is your Battery Size?
Energy storage batteries come in a variety of different sizes and weights and each have different characteristics. If you have a lot of suitable space to store your battery this may not be relevant but if you are limited in space you may want to consider one of the smaller batteries. Here is a comparison…
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Highlighting the features of our Sodium Nickel Chloride battery
John describing some of the features of our Sodium Nickel Chloride battery at a recent display at Warragul. This was a local sustainability group that already had a degree of knowledge of alternative energy solutions and the SoNick battery met with a lot of interest. Amongst other things, people were impressed with the very high…