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A charge cycle is the process of charging a rechargeable battery and discharging it as required into a load.The term is typically used to specify a battery's expected life, as the number of charge cycles affects life more than the mere passage of time.
An intelligent charger may monitor the battery's voltage, temperature or charge time to determine the optimum charge current or terminate charging. For Ni–Cd and Ni–MH batteries , the voltage of the battery increases slowly during the charging process, until the battery is fully charged.
A rechargeable battery, storage battery, or secondary cell (formally a type of energy accumulator), is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use.
The first generation rechargeable alkaline batteries were introduced by Union Carbide and Mallory in the early 1970s. [3] [5] Several patents were introduced after Union Carbide's product discontinuation and eventually, in 1986, Battery Technologies Inc of Canada was founded to commercially develop a 2nd generation product based on those patents, under the trademark "RAM".
Rechargeable aluminium-based batteries offer the possibilities of low cost and low flammability, together with high capacity. [7] The inertness and ease of handling of aluminium in an ambient environment offer safety improvements compared with Li-ion batteries. Al-ion batteries can be smaller and may also have more charge-discharge cycles.
In practice, it depends on the capability of the charger. The battery capacity C is expressed in Ah units, typically the C 20 value based on a 20-hour discharge time. [3] The charging current (in A units) can be written as C/t where t is a time. For example, for a battery with C = 40 Ah, a current C/10 is equal to 4 A. The charging current is a ...
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A smart battery or a smart battery pack is a rechargeable battery pack with a built-in battery management system (BMS), usually designed for use in a portable computer such as a laptop. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition to the usual positive and negative terminals, a smart battery has two or more terminals to connect to the BMS; typically the negative ...