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Engineering deep-dives, industry analysis and the occasional opinion piece — written by our cell team for the engineers building the next device.
Coin Cell Safety: Short-Circuit, Crush and Vent Behaviour Under Abuse
How rechargeable coin cells fail when abused — and why the hermetic stainless-steel shell makes that failure substantially safer than a pouc
Lithium Air Freight in 2025: New Rules, Higher Costs
IATA's recent updates to lithium-battery air-cargo rules and their real impact on sample shipping and volume logistics for OEMs outside Chin
BMS Topology Selection: A Decision Framework for OEMs
From bare-cell PCM to full CAN-bus BMS — the spectrum of battery management topologies, the decision factors at each step, and a comparison
Coin Cells in the Cold: How LIR and ML Behave from -40 °C to +85 °C
Hard data and design rules for using rechargeable coin cells in outdoor IoT, automotive, cold-chain and aerospace devices.
Shipping Lithium: DGR Basics for Product Managers
Class 9 labels, state-of-charge limits, quantity caps per package — what dangerous-goods regs actually require when you ship lithium cells.
Reliability Testing for Custom-Shaped Lithium Cells
Standard IEC tests do not fully cover non-rectangular cell geometries. Here is the additional test matrix — bend, torsion, peel — and how to
Designing a 5-Year BLE Beacon with an ML Coin Cell
A worked design for a sealed BLE beacon that runs five years on a single 65 mAh ML2032 cell. Power budget, advertising interval, MCU sleep,
Second-Life Cells: Who's Buying, Who's Selling
The emerging re-qualification market for used lithium cells, and whether it makes commercial sense for small formats.
Formation Cycling: The Manufacturing Step That Sets a Cell's Entire Life
What happens during the first charge, how formation protocol determines coulombic efficiency and long-term cycle life, and what to ask a sup
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