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Home >> June, 2008

Battery Web’s Customer Service Toots Their Horn!

Posted on: Monday, June 30th, 2008 in: News

We at Batteryweb strive to give the best customer service as possible. There is an old adage “You can’t please everybody” however we do give it a heck of a try. Below are a handful of the emails we receive from our customers letting us know how we’re doing.
John from OH writes: You have a [...]

Battery Powered Bug

Posted on: Friday, June 27th, 2008 in: Vehicles

It looks like Volkswagen and Sanyo have joined forces to work on an efficient lithium-ion battery to go into the next generation of hybrids for Volkswagen.
As companies clamor over each other to perfect hybrids and eventually more all-electric vehicles the race is on to develop the best and brightest combination with balance between performance, safety, [...]

Can Batteries Freeze In The Winter?

Posted on: Thursday, June 26th, 2008 in: Questions

Granted this is a question we hear mostly in the winter, it is however a question we get asked from time to time.
In a partially discharged state, the electrolyte in a lead acid battery may freeze. At a 40% state of charge, electrolyte will freeze if the temperature reaches approximately 16.0°F (8.9°C).
The freezing temperature of [...]

Are Your Batteries Dead or Is It Time To Replace Your Electronics?

Posted on: Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in: Help

Now we all know that there is a time that the battery in your device will have gone through enough charge/discharge cycles that it decides to not play anymore and you need to replace it. There are ways you can tell that your battery just won’t last much longer. Such as when the device lasts [...]

Defining Power

Posted on: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 in: Information

Every once in a while we get questions from our customers asking to define some of the terms that they find on their battery. So here is a short list of some of the more common terms and their definitions.
Volt – This is a measure of electrical potential. The volt is named after Alessandro Volta [...]

How to connect a battery in Parallel to Extend Runtime

Posted on: Monday, June 23rd, 2008 in: Tips

If you need your battery to supply longer runtime you can hook batteries in “parallel”.
In order to do this you connect the positive terminal of the first battery to the positive terminal of the second battery, the positive terminal of the second is connected to the positive of the third, etc.
The negative terminal of the [...]

How to Connect a Series of Batteries for Higher Voltage

Posted on: Friday, June 20th, 2008 in: Help

Although many people know how to do this, we do get this question from time to time. In order to set up a “series” of batteries, the positive terminal of the first battery is connected to the negative terminal of the second battery; the positive terminal of the second is connected to the negative of [...]

How Long Will My Battery Last

Posted on: Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in: Batteries

How long will my battery last for, This is probably one of the most common questions we receive. Unfortunately, it is also one of the hardest to answer. Battery life has so many variables to consider including: how batteries are used, how they are maintained and charged, temperature, and a plethora of other factors. Anyone living where the heat [...]

The Phoenix Electric Vehicle Gets 100 Miles Per Charge

Posted on: Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 in: Vehicles

As I’ve mentioned before, the electric vehicle is beginning to show up everywhere. Rising from the ashes of our oil woes is Phoenix Motors. (www.phoenixmotorcars.com) Phoenix has partnered with Altairnano to use their innovative lithium-titanate batteries (you can see the blog
A Safe Explosion and Fire Proof Lithium-Ion Battery to read more about it) in [...]

High Gas Prices Force Better Battery Operated Technology

Posted on: Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in: Alternative Power Sources

I’m going to go out on a limb and go against what I’ve been griping about recently and say maybe the insane gas prices are a good thing. Ok pick yourself up off the floor… I think it is a good thing for three reasons.
The higher gas prices are forcing people to look at alternative [...]