Capacitive methods spots failing standby cells months before they die
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It took a long time, but ohmic methods are generally accepted as a means of determining whether a lead-acid battery is close to the end of its working life — sometimes just days.
Last week at Battcon, the industry’ premier stationary battery meeting, British engineer Nigel Scott showed the battery industry that it is now possible to determine a deteriorating lead-acid battery months before it fails by measuring a small change in the battery system’s capacitance— a first in testing innovation for many years.
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