The Battery Clinic
Red Scholefield addresses Li-Poly battery shelf life, charging tips, and the Southeast Electric Flight Festival in his latest column.
The Battery Clinic
Red Scholefield shares battery insights for RC modelers in "The Battery Clinic," covering charging, recycling, safety, and lithium technology tips.
The Battery Clinic-2013/02
For the serious electric flier: setting up your battery test facility
The Battery Clinic-2011/09
HOBBY CHARGERS for Your Power
Tools; a reader’s email prompted this one:
“I have a Firestorm 12-volt drill. I swear,
every time I need to drill with the cordless,
it’s dead and I end up dragging out the 120-
volt one and an extension cord.
The Battery Clinic - 2010/05
MA HAS BEEN taking some hits on modeling forums for not being
proactive in covering emerging technology, particularly in the field
of energy devices. “You’d think MA would have been on the ball and
getting this out,” read one such post. “I guess they don’t have
anybody there with enough get up and go to keep up to date on stuff
like this.”
That opinion was in reference to an article about paper-thin
batteries made from algae that some of the popular science media
made public. Almost any institution with a chemistry department and
a half-dozen test tubes is working on such projects, looking for the
Holy Grail in energy—but, more realistically, for fat government or
industrial grants to support more research.
Following are comments in one such battery-breakthrough article
from the December 21, 2009, MIT Technology Review.
