Premier Farnell has created an IoT Power Calculator that helps developers of IoT (Internet of Things) projects understand the expected battery life of IoT devices and experiment with different strategies to determine their impact on battery life. Users enter basic parameters about their hardware – including different types of microcontroller and batteries – and their […]
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Why lithium-ion batteries catch fire: Researchers mimic faults to figure out failure mechanisms
Researchers from NASA, the DoE’s Renewable Lab, and the EU are getting insights into why lithium-ion cells fail thanks to the use of a device that induces short circuits inside the battery itself. The device researchers came up with can induce an internal short circuit on-demand and at a pre-determined location inside commercially available spiral-wound […]
