Take a look at your battery cables. Do you notice any brittleness, burns, corrosion, cracks or holes? If so, your battery cables could be an issue. Corrosion can look like soft white or green powder and is usually seen at the points where the cable connects to the battery or terminals. Buildup of this common byproduct of battery operation can reduce conduction efficiency and damage your cables.
My selection of cells and dedicated LFP charger were initially obtained from a specialist NZ firm, but prices were noted far cheaper via direct imports from Hong Kong outlets which focus on global battery sales. Although concerning for international air freighting, feedback from radio controlled plane enthusiasts indicates such direct lithium battery orders thankfully arrive in very rugged protective packaging. Here's the order - post free- for 6 cells, 2 placeholding dummies and a smart LFP charger! It arrived trouble free about a week later here in New Zealand. (Note however that China & NZ beneficially have a free trade agreement)
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Update: Further variations with 2 and 4 switched battery boxes have now been developed. An appealing feature of the 4 AA box is that 2 regular AA alkalines can be used (2 x 1.5 -3V) if LiFePO4 are unavailable. Some of the board slices used are fibreglass based KPB (Kiwi Patch Board), but this gets costly for small versions - it's wasteful to slice & dice a nifty KPB for trivial needs! For skinflints & schools I've hence also considered Australian/NZ firm Jaycar's (www.jaycar.com.au) HP9556 & HP9558 (Paxolin) boards, which can yield up to 5-10 board "fingers" from a single $3-$5 purchase. When deeply scored on both sides they'll crack apart nicely, & rough edges can be quickly sanded smooth. A quick spray of clear protective coating prevents track tarnishing & aids soldering nicely. Sure - the resulting boxed board is not that profesional,but it's logical/neat/cheap/quick & it's compact layout alerts assemblers to today's tight circuitry.
Jaycar, the popular Aus/NZ electronics outlet, now stock AA sized 14500 rechargeable Lithium cells. However they're in the Aust $10 range, and no simple USB smart chargers (nor dummy cells) are yet handled ... 3.7V Li-ion = Jaycar code SB2303 3.2V LiFePO4 = Jaycar code SB2305 LiFePO4 imports from China/Hong Kong are probably still possible at far lower prices, but Boeing's "Dreamliner" battery woes has meant that international air freighting of Li cells (especially Li-Po) has recently become "difficult".
Lithium-ion batteries have always been a focus of research on new energy vehicles, however, their internal reactions are complex, and problems such as battery aging and safety have not been fully understood. In view of the research and preliminary application of the digital twin in complex systems such as aerospace, we will have the opportunity to use the digital twin to solve the bottleneck of current battery research. Firstly, this paper arranges the development history, basic concepts and key technologies of the digital twin, and summarizes current research methods and challenges in battery modeling, state estimation, remaining useful life prediction, battery safety and control. Furthermore, based on digital twin we describe the solutions for battery digital modeling, real-time state estimation, dynamic charging control, dynamic thermal management, and dynamic equalization control in the intelligent battery management system. We also give development opportunities for digital twin in the battery field. Finally we summarize the development trends and challenges of smart battery management.
The establishment of DT model requires a large amount of historical data. For the battery commonly used in the market, there are already many open source data, such as the NASA battery data set, which can be used to fuse different data vectors together to create deeper electrochemical insights and increase the identifiability of these systems. These huge amounts of offline data that are extremely important to build DT system to achieve reliable battery management. However, in the future, if a new type of battery does not have enough data, smart algorithms will need to be used for transfer learning when building DT to speed up research on battery characteristics [121]. In addition, due to the limitations of on-board sensors, the amount and type of data collected in practical applications are not as good as in laboratory conditions, for example, battery internal multi-point temperature cannot collected through sensors, which also poses challenge to effective and stable battery management. Therefore, it is necessary to use more powerful AI algorithm to realize the derivation from single information to multiple information to make up for the vacancy of battery data. It also poses a challenge to AI algorithms. Therefore, data and AI are very important in realizing battery DT.
Decommissioned batteries are also used for energy storage, including wind and solar energy storage, peak shaving and valley filling of smart grid and frequency balance. Some researchers have introduced the DT framework into the online analysis of smart grid, and used DT to analyze the power flow in the grid [123]. The battery DT system can not only quickly screen and group decommissioned batteries that can be used for echelon utilization, but also combine with the smart grid to analyze real-time storage capacity and the surplus of the grid to achieve efficient use of batteries for energy storage.
DT technology can also be used for battery production and assembly except in the use phase. The virtual assembly of battery based on DT is similar to the aircraft assembly workshop. The data can be transmitted by various types of sensors installed in the equipment production line and workshop and the host computer. Through big data analysis, the data integration and analysis between equipment and equipment, equipment and system, system and system are completed, so that the digitization and visualization of the whole process of power battery assembly and manufacturing are realized.
The developing trend of the battery management system is intelligent, networking, more integrated and universal. Relying on high-precision sensors, cloud computing, machine learning and software technology, it can realize the full life cycle management of batteries from manufacturing, loading applications, fault maintenance and recycling. This management level is very important for energy storage equipment as it can achieve fast charging, and adapt to a variety of complex working conditions and other functions. DT has been initially applied to SOC and SOH estimation in the battery field, and has achieved satisfying estimation accuracy. Although DT research is in its infancy, there are still many technical challenges that need to be resolved, such as battery aging mechanism, lithium plating, data management\sharing and privacy, deep integration of AI, big data and cloud computing, the transferability of the model, etc. However, it has great value in predicting and optimizing products, which can provide some solutions for the optimization of smart BMS functions. 2ff7e9595c
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