Every battery type has a nominal (or average) voltage, but its actual voltage fluctuates depending on its state of charge, the load it's supplying, and even temperature. The voltage range refers to the minimum and maximum voltage levels at which a battery is designed to safely and effectively operate. [...]

What is Voltage? The Driving Force Think of voltage as the "pressure" or "force" that pushes electrical current through a circuit. Measured in Volts (V), it represents the potential energy difference between the positive and negative terminals of a battery. Higher Voltage, More Power: A higher voltage battery can deliver [...]

Series vs. Parallel: At its heart, a battery pack is a collection of individual battery cells (or even smaller battery modules) connected together to achieve specific electrical characteristics. The way these cells are connected dictates the overall voltage and capacity of the pack. Building Battery Packs in Series: Boosting [...]

Iron phosphate batteries are actually lithium iron phosphate batteries. Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) is a rechargeable lithium chemistry that uses a liquid electrolyte. This makes lithium iron phosphate batteries just another type of lithium ion batteries. Like the other numerous lithium ion chemistries, iron phosphate comes with its own [...]

All cells and batteries, being electrochemical sources of electrical potential, can only maintain that electrical potential for as long as the chemicals that create that potential exist inside the battery. As soon as the cell or battery is connected into the device it is designed to power, current immediately [...]

In an effort to better compare and contrast various lithium cell and battery chemical composition attributes, lithium chemistries are given a standard method of designating their discharge rate capabilities known as a “C Rate.” The C Rate (or as it is known in technical publications, It) is an equivalent [...]

All cells and batteries, being electrochemical sources of electrical potential, can only maintain that electrical potential for as long as the chemicals that create that potential exist inside the battery. As soon as the cell or battery is connected into the device it is designed to power, current immediately [...]

Lithium based cells and batteries can be made up of numerous and various chemical compositions. The specific chemical composition will first determine whether the battery is rechargeable or not. Secondly, each composition has a particular benefit in the attribute areas of capacity, energy, energy density, specific energy, maximum discharge [...]

Primary and secondary batteries are simply batteries that can be used one time or more than one time, respectively; primary meaning “once” and secondary meaning “twice.” A rechargeable battery (secondary) can be used more than once and a non-rechargeable battery (primary) can only be used once. It is really [...]

A cell is a single electrochemical source of electrical potential, or voltage. They come in numerous sizes and chemical types, both of which directly determine the cell’s nominal capacity and voltage rating, respectively. When numerous cells of the same size and chemical type are connected together in various configurations [...]