Lithium batteries

From The Alternative Power Network
Revision as of 06:11, 20 August 2019 by Benadski (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lithium batteries are not the single solution for all our devices, there is not enough Lithium available on our planet for everything and everyone. Recycling of Lithium batter...")
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Lithium batteries are not the single solution for all our devices, there is not enough Lithium available on our planet for everything and everyone. Recycling of Lithium batteries is not easy still and it is very expensive. So if you can think of a solution for this problem, you'll probably be very rich soon. But for now it is a useful battery chemistry as it has high energy density, low self discharge and it's possible to charge those batteries thousands of times.

Treat your batteries right! Those batteries in your phone, why do they die so soon? Well, that's because of the way it's charged and discharged. Charging to 100% and discharging to 0% is very bad for the cells. If you're lucky and keep the cells at optimum temperature, you might get about 1000 cycles out of them before they wear out. If you use only a few percent of the energy and keep the voltage somewhere in the middle, you might get 20 times as much cycles or more. But that is not efficient either as you probably want to use the batteries for storing and delivering energy. If you charge to about 60 to 80% and don't discharge them fully, it's possible to get up to 6 times as much cycles, even more when you use LiPO4 batteries.