Lithium ion battery performance and charge control
This paper presents the initial results from testing of SONY US18650B Li-ion cells from 0 to 40/spl deg/C. Charge rates from C/10 to C/1.4 and discharge rates of C/2.4 to C/0.8 have been studied, which covers 24% to 70% depth-of-discharge (DOD) in simulated low Earth orbit (LEO). When cells are rated at the capacity delivered to 3.00 V at the C/2 rate, …