{"id":8,"date":"2009-10-05T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T21:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2009-10-08T23:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:01:40","slug":"developments-in-battery-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/05\/developments-in-battery-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Developments in Battery Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some exciting developments in battery technology over the past several years.\u00c2\u00a0 I am currently working on a project that uses one of the latest battery chemistries (Lithium Ferro-Phosphate).\u00c2\u00a0 These batteries have one of the highest power densities, can be fast charged without degradation, and have a safe pulse discharge rate greater than 100C.\u00c2\u00a0 This means that the &#8220;EXCITING&#8221; can be just that in the development environment if not handled safely!<\/p>\n<p>The system I am working on is designed to replace a Lead\/Acid system used in Hospital environments.\u00c2\u00a0 It represents a Quantum Leap in functionality in this application, and eliminates hazardous materials found in the Lead\/Acid unit it replaces.\u00c2\u00a0 It has excellent hardware safety designed in by Cliff Gerhard.\u00c2\u00a0 My contribution is the firmware for several elements of the system, the Battery Safety\/Controller, The Charge Controller, and the Main Controller which contains several adjustable high current DC outputs and communicates via USB to a host computer for monitoring and administration.\u00c2\u00a0 I have also designed the monitoring and administration applications for the Host using C# 2008 and the .NET Framework v2.0 (.NET Framework v2.0 was chosen for down level compatibility to Windows 2000).<\/p>\n<p>Altogether a fun project&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some exciting developments in battery technology over the past several years.\u00c2\u00a0 I am currently working on a project that uses one of the latest battery chemistries (Lithium Ferro-Phosphate).\u00c2\u00a0 These batteries have one of the highest power densities, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/05\/developments-in-battery-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[14,13,12,11],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profundity","category-tech","tag-net-development","tag-c-development","tag-firmware-development","tag-lifepo-battry-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandbox.dev.vernonjohnson.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}