The Cadex Blog

For over 35 years, Cadex Electronics has been at the leading edge of battery technology. Serving customers in over 100 countries globally, our world-class team empowers local and global clients to achieve the most from their mobile power applications. Cadex technology and products, including custom battery packs, smart chargers and advanced battery analyzers, optimize battery use in all phases of battery life cycle management, increase up-time and availability of critical equipment, and decrease operating costs. With headquarters in Vancouver and offices in Europe and Asia, we make battery systems more reliable.

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Jun 21, 2022

Battery Management System (BMS)

Battery Management System (BMS) Larger batteries, including all Li-ion, are managed by a BMS. This battery control ciruit monitors voltage, current and temperature of a battery, sets limits and detect anomalies. Typical iregularities are low voltage caused by cell failure and high internal resistance due to aging or sulfation of... Read More
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May 13, 2022

Use of RUBY in drone batteries

Figure 1: Drone in medical service A drone carrying critical blood samples took off from city of Meerut and landed in Delhi, India after a successful one hour flight. Drone had to stop midway for a scheduled battery swap. But by road, same journey would have taken more than... Read More
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May 13, 2022

Spectro™ - May Update

In this Newsletter we discuss matrix development to test deep-cycle lead acid and Li-ion batteries with a Spectro™ test device. Because of shared architecture, starter batteries use an automotive-tuned generic matrix with pass/fail classification. Li-ion and deep-cycle lead acid batteries are more distinctive and need a model-specific matrix. A well-developed... Read More
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May 12, 2022

Storing Batteries – How to handle them correctly?

The different batteries and chemicals also want to be treated differently. When storing batteries in particular, not only the temperature but also the SoC (state of charge) should be taken into account.  Lead acid: How to store a Lead Acid Battery Fully charge before storing!- Partial charge causes sulfation-... Read More
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Apr 26, 2022

C8000 Advanced Battery Testing System

Research labs across the world always aim for the most accurate and precise result possible. In addition to their lack of accuracy (i.e. reliability), studies are often criticized for using inaccurate methods to collect information. Accuracy of measurements (i.e. validity) is fundamental to ensure the quality and integrity of research... Read More
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Apr 26, 2022

Cadex C7 Adapters - New Material

We are very excited to announce that we will be transitioning to a new material for our adapter design Read More
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Apr 25, 2022

Cadex Spectro Modular - April Update

In the February 2022 Newsletter, we introduced the Spectro Modular as a next-gen battery tester. The March Newsletter illustrates Nyquist plots scanning batteries delivering capacity of 100%, 90% and 80%. This month’s April Newsletter introduces Read More
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Mar 23, 2022

Dymo 550 - New BatteryShop Partner

One of our BatteryShop beloved printer Dymo 450 has been discontinued.The new Dymo 550 is on the way. Read More
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Mar 17, 2022

Robots and Exoskeletons

In August 2021 Elon Musk announced that Tesla would build a humanoid robot to “eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks” Read More
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Mar 17, 2022

Cadex Spectro Modular - March Update

The first Spectro Modulars will be sold to the world’s third-largest car manufacturer (by volume) to check the integrity of starter batteries. Read More
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Feb 28, 2018

How I charge my cell phone battery?

Markus Pauli, COO Cadex Electronics, shares his insights on how charging habits affect battery life. Read More
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Dec 05, 2017

BU Summarized: Learn How to Arrange Batteries to Increase Voltage or Gain Higher Capacity

Learn about series and parallel battery configurations, along with guidelines to using everyday household batteries and secondary batteries. Read More
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Nov 28, 2017

Two Battery Cells Inside the iPhone X: Double the Capacity?

The new iPhone X's dual-cell battery is the first of it's kind, allows Apple users to enjoy double the features. Here's why: Read More
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Nov 21, 2017

Researchers at MIT are Changing The World of Batteries

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an “air-breathing” battery that has the potential to drastically change the world of renewable power. Read More
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Nov 14, 2017

Vancouver "Nano One" Lab Pilots Battery Testing Research at SFU

Nano One Materials Corp, based in Vancouver B.C., is constantly finding new ways to create low-cost processing technology to produce high performance battery materials. Read More
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Nov 07, 2017

Are you part of the C5100B Network?

Cellular retail and repair stores across the US have realized the benefits to customer service and store revenue that come from offering in-store battery testing with the Cadex C5100B cell phone battery tester. The user friendly interface allows you to select nominal voltage and capacity for any device, including the... Read More
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Oct 31, 2017

Panasonic Stretching Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries

Tesla's battery supplier, Panasonic, is looking at way to improve upon their already industry-leading cell technologies, bringing solid-state, lithium-air and non-lithium batteries into view. Read More
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Oct 31, 2017

Eviation Aircraft: The Future of Ride-Sharing in the Sky?

Eviation Aircraft, an Israel-based startup is working on a self-piloting, electric aircraft which hopes to become "Uber meeting Tesla in the sky." Read More
Oct 31, 2017

American Lithium Energy Developing Safer Lithium-Ion Batteries

Though these occurrences are rare, lithium-ion batteries have the potential to break out into flames, as seen with the Samsung Note 7. Jiang Fan, president and co-founder of American Lithium believes that his company has found the solution to battery fires. Read More
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Oct 30, 2017

Product Spotlight: RigidArm™ Universal Adapter

The 4-wire RigidArm™ Universal Adapter attaches to your C5100B Cellphone Battery Analyzer and connects to any small rechargeable battery or removable Smartphone battery. Learn more about this innovative device here. Read More
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