Parallel battery-management ICs provide new ways to stretch out the limited runtime of smart glasses and AR/VR goggles.

The E-Ducato's battery consists of three or five large battery modules (respectively 47 kWh or 79 kWh total), which are connected in parallel. It's not a typical approach, as usually there are many ...

Since heavy-duty trucks use two to four batteries connected in parallel to power 12- and 24-volt electrical systems, daily battery maintenance is a prime consideration. Using the common parallel ...

For those willing to put some elbow grease into it, there is an almost unlimited supply of 18650 lithium ion batteries around for cheap (or free) just waiting to be put into a battery pack of some ...

The future of batteries, like that of so many of the products they power, is clearly toward smaller, lighter and more powerful models. Developing concurrently with these new battery designs are ...

We’re willing to bet most Hackaday readers have accidentally spot welded a few electrical contacts together over the years, complete with the surge of adrenaline that comes with the unexpected pops ...

1. An optimised 65mW dc-dc converter’s efficiency can remain as high as 80 to 90%. 2. The MCU core and digital peripherals of the C8051F9xx family run from an internally regulated, low-power 1.7V ...