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How to Maintain Batteries
Batteries are often installed and forgotten. Some packs are replaced too soon but most are left in service too long and become unreliable. Learn what causes batteries to fail and how you can check their health with modern battery test equipment. The presentation also introduces smart batteries and rapid-test technologies.
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Cover
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Outline
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Caring for the Battery from Cradle to Grave
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Definition of a Battery
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The Unavoidable Fact of Aging
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When should a battery be replaced?
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The Finite Life of a Battery
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Let’s not forget the Spare Capacity
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Management with a Battery Analyzer
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Purchasing
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Incoming Inspection
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Periodic Capacity Check
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Retirement
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Storing
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What causes Batteries to fail?
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The Ready Light on a Charger lies, and why . . .
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Declining Capacity
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Rising Internal Resistance
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Elevated Self-discharge
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Self-discharge varies with chemistry
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Premature Voltage Cut-off
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Battery Maintenance Methods
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Management by Date-stamping
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Maintenance by removable Battery Label
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Maintenance by removable Battery Label cont.
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Maintenance by Bar Code Label
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PC-BatteryShop™
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Machine-to-machine Cloud Solutions
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Rapid-test Methods
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Test methods that no longer work
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Types of Data Collections and what each offers
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Types of Battery Excitations
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Frequency Domain
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Combining EIS with complex modeling
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Spectro™ for Lead Acid and how it works
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Definitions of a Starter Battery
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How Starter Batteries are tested
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Capacity and CCA of aging starter batteries
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Relationship between Capacity and CCA
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Spectro CA-12 measures Capacity and CCA in 15 seconds
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Test conditions
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Correct prediction on capacity
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What experts say . . .
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ADAC 2013 statistics . . .
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Spectro™ Applications
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Battery Monitoring - what we use today
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Adding capacity to BMS
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SoF by a Tri-state Fuel Gauge
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Applications
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HealthTest™ for Li-ion
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Battery Health-Check™ in a Charger and Device
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Applications
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Testing larger Batteries
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Smart Battery
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Battery fuel gauge
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Single-wire Bus & System Management Bus
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State-of-charge by Coulomb Counter
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Why Voltage Readings are not the Solution
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Fuel Gauge
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Tracking Error
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How to calibrate
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How accurate is the Battery Fuel Gauge?
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Problems with Fuel Gauges
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Myths about the Smart Battery
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Making the “Smart Battery” user-friendly
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Summary
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Boost Confidence in Batteries
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Facts about Batteries
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Leaders in battery control technology
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Batteries live longer with proper diagnostics
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Take home
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