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Warren Buffett – even behind the BYD

Posted by admin on September 29, 2009
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China CCTV in an interview during the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway stock “god Buffett, Warren Buffett praised the BYD President Wang Chuanfu is a star” real “, there is no intention to divest of BYD. Buffett also said that the future of an additional investment in other enterprises in China.

Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway investment this year, are electric cars showcase BYD’s, Buffett Chen Cish machines accept mainland China CCTV “economic half hour” interview.

Admit they do not understand Buffett BYD batteries, mobile phones and electric vehicles such as the three kinds of cases, but noted that the new field of energy become more important, Berkshire Cut in wind, and the BYD, trying to develop batteries for electric vehicles, and other regions will have a significant influence in the world.

Buffett’s Investment in BYD’s proposal is that with him since the 50-year investment partner Munger, and successor to Warren Buffett, one of the hot candidates Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican Energy, presented their respective investments in BYD motivation .

Munger believes that BYD’s future is very bright, just like car BYD, BYD is a very large, BYD will become China’s best known companies.

Analysis Sokol, if electric cars to replace the automobile, can reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 75%, which, besides increasing the size of the plant, you can reduce production costs, will replace gas – car-intensive renewable electricity or nuclear energy, emissions of carbon dioxide from automobile can be reduced to 90%. BYD if the car battery technology to accelerate the development of more efficient rechargeable batteries so that development will be faster.

Wang Chuanfu response, BYD is not only the development of cars, electric vehicles, an expanded concept of plant development to small scale energy storage energy, the vehicle belongs to kilowatt-class, if it is fired specification, ie, megawatt-class, BYD has spent a very long time to develop this technology, the future can be made available to Sino-American energy companies, Sino-US energy storage of electricity in high demand in the second half BYD can give energy to provide part of the Sino-US station energy storage power.

Reported that analysis, the economic stimulus plan President of the United States proposed by Obama, electric vehicles to reduce dependence on foreign oil, save the car industry an asset to the development of electric vehicle technology, the production and promotion of a maximum consumption of 14.1 billion euros in public funds. Among them, if Sino-US energy sony vgp-bps2 battery  released by BYD electric cars, charging stations access structure, we can bring enormous business opportunities.

China reporter asked Buffett what circumstances may sell shares of BYD, Buffett said: “We look forward to BYD right, I do not intend to sell.”

As for Chinese companies who may be looking for? Buffett said: “You never know what is the next hot industry, and I heard two years ago, BYD, never knows what the next will have a shot.”

Teach you how to correctly use the laptop battery

Posted by admin on September 29, 2009
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Currently, he is a popular brand of portable computers were powered by lithium-ion battery. This battery has a high yield, cycle, good, long life, no pollution, etc., in the field of computer products and widely used in everyday life.
      Address of the battery capacity fade problem
      Life of lithium-ion battery is usually 2-3 years, and the computing time is of the lithium-ion battery range of production out of the moment. With the oxidation of the battery, the battery capacity will be gradually reduced. When the battery capacity reduced to a certain point, the battery can no longer continue to operate. In simple terms, lithium-ion battery aging and decline can not be avoided, but misused, it will accelerate the decomposition process. In particular, the use of temperature and charging conditions on the battery life to have the most direct impact.

      The initial activation and reduce the number of charge cycles

      Although lithium-ion battery can be used to load, but usually we do not recommend this action because the battery life of lithium-ion battery and the number of charge cycles proportional to the relationship (the number of load and unloading in the range 500-800), while the overall quality of farm insurance period will last one year. Practice has proved that through the activation and reduce the number of charge cycles can be effectively extended life lithium-ion battery.

      Initial use lithium-ion battery, the first three secondary as far as possible, “Man is full of liberation”, the charging time, preferably more than 12 hours. The only way to fully activate the internal battery chemicals for best electrochemical reaction.

      After each load, preferably in food “10% of circumstances are conducive to extending the battery life. At the same time to avoid frequent charging plug the power plug or load short repeated term, because at this time each connected to an external power supply, which is equivalent to the battery charging instructions issued by a number of times, shorten the life of nature.

      Avoid the cost of long, careful environmental temperature

      After the battery three times the previous “total liberation Full” will be fully activated. After that, lithium-ion battery charging, and avoiding too long, usually filled with a better one. Meanwhile, the battery capacity and a long time to use a USB external power, unplug the battery is preferable to avoid damage by heat.

      Not only that, the battery life is also the use of temperature. Under normal circumstances, “<30 ℃” be considered the optimum temperature, if room temperature> 35 ℃, will accelerate the depletion of the battery. Also, when you need to watch out for earthquakes using the laptop, no struggle, shoving and other acts will bring the battery life shortened by vibration. Reaction In addition, the chemical properties of lithium-ion battery itself is extremely labor intensive and therefore requires avoid the arbitrary use of the demolition process to avoid exposure, moisture, erosion of liquid chemicals, but can not communicate with the contact of the laptop battery  with any metal objects.

Laptop responsible systematic approach

Posted by admin on September 25, 2009
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Laptop responsible systematic approach

If you are sure your hardware phones, no problem can be easily manipulated. I think all the notepad to the system are the same. But a laptop it is a hidden partition, or to hide drive C, and aim to do is protect the system. If you want to change your preferred system is possible. In conjunction with their experience, give you some suggestions, you may need them. First: Clear the BIOS. (Italy is to remove the Commission for Protection System). 2nd: The mhdd the eraser to erase the hard drive. laptop battery rechargeable (Italy is to eradicate the hidden partition on the hard drive, backup hidden system partition and hidden). Third: After wiping partition formatted with the DM. (Italy is that partitions according to their own preferences). Fourth: The Ghost version of XP to install. (Italy is the quick installation). Note: The installation of the Spirit system to select the whole drive, or there would be no driver installation have failed. Recommended use of fresh wind driven System Ghost package. Mon propre paquet XP systèmes est la liberté de la poussée par le vent paquet, installés de nombreux ordinateurs de bureau et les portables, jusqu’à présent, il n’a pas été installé sur la situation du conducteur n’est pas.
    I wish, and then the cattle pound, according to the above method to change the system from a hobby.

     Another: If your SATA hard drive, you use Ghost for May IDE channel mask, or not find the hard drive. Or in the BIOS, the IDE channel shield. The specific method is as follows: the first method, using Ghost shield, with version 8.3 of the above GHOST, GHOST command executed in DOS — NOIDE VerifyCode more about it. Ghost in D, assuming that the root directory, then the command format is: D: ghost.exe —- NOIDE enter. The second method, in the BIOS settings, IDE devices Interneted ——— ———- Function Setup This page OnChip IDE 0 and IDE channel 1 disabled OnChip saving stop smoking. Both methods can resolve the situation GHOST can not find the hard drive. compaq evo n410 battery Depending on your situation in a way to use one on her.

Note 6 to buy second-hand laptop

Posted by admin on September 25, 2009
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The first step: to observe the outer Notebook

Check watching carefully to see if it had not been demolished or is before the collision, if the cracking of the ministry, if we find this kind of problem, whatever its price is not cheap to buy more. However, only a few minor scratches, you can think of is because due to the mobility needs some slight friction is inevitable. And the purchase of laptops used depends on its thickness, size, weight, and similar comparison of portable hand, take care who is who, according to their needs.

Second step: look closely and check your LCD screen

This is very important. As we all know, LCD is the most expensive notebook accessory components, rechargeable laptop battery accounting for the cost of the entire machine 20% ~ 35%, to choose should pay particular attention to: 1, if the marks of injury on the screen because there are traces of the machine length schedule, the refraction of light can cause serious damage to the sight of people, believe it or revert to the impact of vision too much trouble. 2, carefully observe the display size and display size of screen display and price effects and connect to consider, of course, can be used to keep prices down. 3, detailed identification of display colors. Observation of color outside the supervision of the screen is 16 colors, 256 colors or 16, and 24 bit True Color True Color exterior, but also placed at an angle both vertically and horizontally, in its comments, if context in which this could be exactly whatever the screen to see color, may determine the true color. Otherwise, if we can only see her forehead to determine the color, then it is pseudo-colors. Can be hailed in the business, where a high price, high quality liquid crystal displays, and you want to buy it in a notebook next to the contrast in the same interface for their brightness, contrast and response speed, visibility and d other parameters of the advantages and disadvantages. 4, note that monitor the performance and brightness of the delay. In the selection of LCD monitors, the main fact is that this should be the length of time, if the delay is too long, the eyes will feel tired. At the same time, the brightness is a weakness of LCD, Universal, the brightness of the LCD type are generally made by 200cd /? (Lumens), below the screen brightness on the desirable. There is no time to see the flash of a glance, look to tie in with the contrast adjustment. Some LCD monitors have the same brightness, regardless of the degree of stress as a result, increase the contrast very dazzling look very uncomfortable. Brief prevail eyes seemed very comfortable. 5, pay attention to LCD screens dead pixels. dell inspiron b120 battery The most common is the white point and black point, we use the following when buying a simple approach to identify: the identification of black spots in the general approach is to tune into the bottom of the entire screen black and white, and black spots on the general flight your eyes, white spots are just the opposite will be the bottom of the screen to plug into the black with white spots at the time it will Xianchuyuanxing啦! Nonetheless point, except for white spots and black spots, and sometimes there are other colors, this time consumers have been created three primary colors red, yellow, blue screen to identify a single click.

Third step: identification and testing of portable components

Double-Check Notebook CPU, hard drives, memory and other components, you can buy the best you can when you open the machine to see. In addition, we must guard against the use of used books profiteers replacement desktop processor notebook CPU despicable practice. Similarly, since the same frequency CPU users will generally not notice, but the CPU usage of desktop and notebook CPUs is totally different, due to heat different questions, making the CPU issue falls in the notebook can not shed heat, resulting in system instability. Thus, in the buying process as much as possible on request for inspection on site to the CPU. For hard drives, due to the visual observation can not understand the advantages and disadvantages of the hard disk, and should be detected by software testing software available DM Norton and so on, by the via DM, Norton scanned, MD with a longer time, NORTON time shorter term. Scanning process must be uniformly smooth if the cluster region, which when used too long, indicating that the cluster region there must be problems. Regarding memory, the memory of second-hand laptop from 32M to 256M are, we should try to select more than 64M of memory, preferably more than 128M. Memory buy when to add a little, sony vgp-bps2 battery because some memory of the laptop is a bit special, and long abandoned and can not supply. In addition, the houses of others, such as graphics card, we should also see a bright face to face.

Step Four: Make the interface of second-hand laptop

As there are no complete interface is very necessary. In today’s laptops, with the popularization and application of external memory devices, USB interface, has become both desktops and laptops an essential device, the USB port is very important interface . Therefore, the best to buy second hand laptops have a USB interface. In addition, infrared emission and reception capabilities of a laptop is now essential. And, when buying second-hand phones, there is one important condition is that the purchase of the machine depends on its power. External power supply is a must have, no battery is totally unacceptable and therefore also on the main power source is to see the battery is good or bad is the length of time for battery usage. Pairs of used goods, nickel-hydride batteries, metal usually in one to two years may be used for one hour, lithium-ion batteries can be used for two hours, which is a fundamental requirement, otherwise we do not not consider them.

Step Five: Check the device state

See the keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM, floppy drive, modem, etc. is available and easy to use. The latest on the secondary market to see a second laptop keyboard brilliant hand, wear very serious, so no need to buy, and the keyboard is necessary to block hundreds of songs. At the same time to open a word processing text, to try all the keys on the keyboard is available, the mouse is flexible. Built-in floppy, CD-ROM, modem, etc is available, please try one by one, as long as the equipment inside the computer can not be detected!
Sixth stage: fighting for the service of second-hand dealer

This should be the last step of the. I remember the books of all the accessories (batteries, power cord, etc.), graphics card, sound card driver for the communication should be, but most sellers say no, the driver did not d importance if there are steps you can to the laptop manufacturers website to download the complete set of computer model aircraft pilots. Finally, we illustrate a particularly important issue, the second-hand laptop computers generally have two to three months limited warranty (repair) period, the guarantee limit must Dealers (Amendment), indicated on the billing period, and during this period of your second hand Laptop conducted several test machines, find all the hidden fight, otherwise the warranty period, do you repair the failure of such equipment, particularly in trouble, and we must take account of future maintenance are convenient, if can not buy parts, the machine is cheaper not because the interior space due to a small book, shortages of spare parts, apple a1039 battery there are compatibility problems and other reasons the possibility of adapting the laptop is almost zero.
      The last sentence is because it is second hand, it can not be too picky. Almost on the list.

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Independent innovation of automotive batteries

Posted by admin on September 22, 2009
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Laws and regulations will increase the cost of fuel and further Promote the development of new energy vehicles. “Air Law” to declare next year the National People’s Congress for approval, and further Improve the “Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Regulations” and “,” Shier Wu “motor vehicle in the planning of pollution control” marked the domestic legal environment is more severe, The use of the cost of conventional gasoline vehicles Increased Steadily, the vehicles will be new energy laws and regulations to guide the direction of industrial policy.
The standards of the new fuel economy forced automakers to accelerate the national transition to new energy vehicles. Wan Gang has proposed new standards for fuel economy for the United States to Improve standards for fuel economy of vehicles for the first time responses. Obama May 19 this year, said that since 2016, the United States to Implement the fuel consumption of 6.6 liters per 100 kilometers of fuel standards of the new economy, implemented earlier in 2020 than expected in 4 years. The implementation of the new standard means that the vast Majority of U.S. vehicles traveling on the street, will be scrapped by 2016. The current world average vehicle fuel consumption of 9.4 liters per 100 kilometers or more, depending on national consumption of gasoline, only Toyota, 2 cars, because GM has models to meet the requirements. According to China’s proposed new regulations for fuel consumption, emissions of CO2 per kilometer to 161 grams, according to 1 liter of gasoline is equivalent to 2.3 kg of CO2, the new standard for fuel consumption for the equivalent of 7 gallons of gasoline per 100 kilometers , slightly less than the U.S. standard. A clear timetable for implementing the new standards for fuel economy, Which means that the major automakers in North America are turning to existing models must be more energy efficient to Reduce vehicle emissions, energy vehicles news is the major automakers full development of the strategic place.

Promising varieties of independent innovation of automotive batteries. We are optimistic about the next new energy policies to Promote investment opportunities in the automotive battery industry, we believe that the next 3 to 5 years, Ni-MH batteries, HEVs will remain the mainstream of new energy vehicles, HEVs will PHEV, EV co -existence about 10 years. Within 3 ~ 5 years later, with iron to increase the performance of lithium phosphate to lower costs, and the national network of charging stations in gradual lithium iron phosphate as the main engine the PHEV, EV mark the beginning of a broad development prospects.

The secret of laptop battery

Posted by admin on September 22, 2009
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Some time ago Apple, Dell, Sony, HP and other international well-known PC giants have emerged in the laptop battery problems and the recall of the original? Today I want to extend the subject to a number of laptop battery knowledge to share with you?

   

Why are books more you use the energy of the battery less? Why calibration function of the battery makes the ability to restore a game? How the correct battery charger? All this from the outset in the calculation of battery power … …

  

If she was eliminated in nickel-metal hydride batteries now used in lithium-ion battery, or not commonly lithium polymer batteries, or even tomorrow’s stars of the silver-zinc batteries are the equivalent of a warehouse Storage of electricity, the difference is that their approach to access the library, the storage capacity only. In the notebook computer batteries, and a great responsibility for the management of these batteries housekeeper – chips computing power, which is managing the battery, computing power, is responsible for loading and unloading of person “responsible”.

  

In the measurement of battery technology, there are four types of common method, but not books of different brands of batteries using a single method for calculating the energy consumption are usually several ways to use an integrated approach in one of the main method of calculation The calculation remaining auxiliary means to achieve the computing power to manage. The first is the open circuit voltage measurement method, this method is to measure the battery voltage in the steady state values to calculate the remaining capacity of the battery, but because of stationary lithium-battery voltage and ion the remaining capacity of the relationship between non-linear, therefore, this method is not an accurate measure of the value of the vast majority of cell phone batteries have adopted this method of calculation, the second method is called Coulomb calculation, the method is to measure the battery charge and discharge current, the current value and time value of After the product is calculated by integrating the batteries into the battery charge and discharge electricity The Coulomb method of calculation is a more precise method of calculating power, the third is the method of impedance measurement, it is by measuring the resistance within the battery to obtain the remaining battery capacity value, the fourth is a complete look-up table methods, setting a linked table, voltage, current, temperature and other inputs, you can check the remaining capacity of the battery to be.

  

Thus, apart from the internal structure of cells of the battery, there are management chips, the chip contains one or two of them measuring method for calculating the battery capacity, and a whole load and the circuit protection against discharge. Among the notebooks in the system, through the driver interface access to this chip, then set the power management.

  

So why the battery would be more you consume less electricity, but the implementation of the correction function can restore the battery capacity of a part of it? Laptop batteries are usually the so-called six-pin power, 4-pin power refers to the number of battery cells in batteries. Both batteries at the same time, the less electricity you use the most basic reasons: batteries and battery between the quality of the discharge may not be exactly the same level as the discharge, in which a substantial reduction battery power to maintain stability of the voltage, the chip Battery Management will follow “barrels principle”, as the worst economy this basic energy for load protection, battery will be a natural decline, the impact is even greater than the battery irreversible Institute of Chemical Physics change.

  

Calibration function of the battery is to balance the multiple batteries, the battery because of their resistance can not be completely consistent, the battery will therefore resist mainstream box, leading to their own consumption more than other batteries, but also easier to wear and tear, therefore, on a regular basis to calibrate the battery is required – to balance the load of multi-cell “work” and increase hope overall life.

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Volkswagen and Toshiba jointly developed electric vehicles and battery power system

Posted by admin on September 22, 2009
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Volkswagen (VolkswagenAG) and Toshiba Corporation (ToshibaCorp.) signed an agreement to jointly develop electric drive vehicles and the corresponding control circuit. In addition, both companies will jointly develop the next generation of electric vehicles for systems with high density of the battery.

      This series of electronics and development activities of drivers to reach the general public, a new family of small “projects. According to the CEO of Volkswagen MartinWinterkorn said the general public in collaboration with Toshiba, is the restructuring of the company focused on developing “important step”.

      Winterkorn said Volkswagen’s goal is to become the world leader in electric vehicles to offer car manufacturers. However, many technical issues remain to be resolved, including lithium batteries, in addition to the price of cars is also very important factors. Vehicle manufacturers and Sanyo (Sanyo), the company has been going on many years of lithium on development cooperation.

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BATTERY FAQ’s

Posted by admin on September 20, 2009
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Each type of rechargeable battery chemistry has its own unique characteristics:

NiCad and NiMH:
The main difference between the two is that NiMH battery (the newer technology of the two) offers higher energy density than NiCads. In other words, the capacity of a NiMH is approximately twice the capacity of its NiCad counterpart. What this means is for you is increased run-time from the battery with no additional bulk or weight. NiMH also offers another major advantage: NiCad batteries tend to suffer from what is called the “memory effect”. NiMH batteries are less prone to develop this problem and thus require less maintenance and conditioning. NiMH batteries are also environmentally friendlier than NiCad batteries since they do not contain heavy metals (which present serious landfill problems). Note: Not all devices can accept both NiCad or NiMH batteries.

Lithium Ion:
Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) has become the new standard for portable power in consumer devices. Li-Ion batterys produce the same energy as NiMH battery but weighs approximately 20%-35% less. This is can make a noticeable difference in devices such as cellular phones, camcorders or notebook computers where the battery makes up a significant portion of the total weight. Another reason Li-Ion batteries have become so popular is that they do not suffer from the “memory effect” at all. They are also environmentally friendly because they don’t contain toxic materials such as Cadmium or Mercury.

Is it Possible to Upgrade the Device’s Battery to a newer Chemistry?
Maybe. NiCad, NiMH and Li-Ion are all fundamentally different from one another and cannot be substituted unless the device has been pre-configured from the factory to accept more than one type of battery chemistry.

Please refer to your manual to find out which rechargeable battery types the particular device supports or use our Battery Quick Finder Wizard to find all the compatible battery for your device. It will automatically list all of the battery types supported by the your specific device.

My new battery isn’t charging. Is it defective?
Usually NO. New batteries come in a discharged condition and must be fully charged before use. It is recommended that you fully charge and discharge the new battery two to four times to allow it to reach its maximum rated capacity.

It is generally recommend an overnight charge (approximately twelve hours). It is normal for a battery to become warm to the touch during charging and discharging.

When charging the battery for the first time, the device may indicate that charging is complete after just 10 or 15 minutes. This is a normal with rechargeable batteries. New batteries are hard for the device to charge; they have never been fully charged and not “broken in.” Sometimes the device’s charger will stop charging a new battery before it is fully charged. If this happens, remove the battery from the device and then reinsert it. The charge cycle should begin again. This may happen several times during the first battery charge. Don’t worry; it’s perfectly normal.

How can I maximize the performance of my battery?
There are several steps you can take to help you get maximum performance from your battery:

Prevent the Memory Effect – Keep the battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-Ion batteries which do not suffer from the memory effect.

Keep the Batteries Clean – It’s a good idea to clean dirty battery contacts with a cotton swab and alcohol. This helps maintain a good connection between the battery and the portable device.

Exercise the Battery – Do not leave the battery dormant for long periods of time. We recommend using the battery at least once every two to three weeks. If a battery has not been used for a long period of time, perform the new battery break in procedure described above.

Battery Storage – If you don’t plan on using the battery for a month or more, store it in a clean, dry, cool place away from heat and metal objects. NiCad, NiMH and Li-Ion batteries will self-discharge during storage; remember to recharge the batteries before use.

Sealed Lead Acid – (SLA) batteries must be kept at full charge during storage. This is usually achieved by using special trickle chargers. If you do not have a trickle charger, do not attempt to store SLA batteries for more than three months.

What is “Memory Effect”?

What are volts and milliamp-hours (e.g. 6.0V – 1800mAH)?

Can I recycle my old battery? How?
Yes, we can assist in battery recycling. Please view the information that is provided under our “Battery Recycling” option.

How long will my new battery run?

What is a “smart” and “dumb” Battery?
Smart batteries have internal circuit boards with smart chips which allow them to communicate with the notebook and monitor battery performance, output voltage and temperature. Smart batteries will generally run 15% longer due to their increased efficiency and also give the computer much more accurate “fuel gauge” capabilities to determine how much battery running time is left before the next recharge is required.

8. How Are Batteries Rated? (What Are Volts and Amps?)

There are two ratings on every battery: volts and amp-hours (Ah). The Ah rating may also be given as milliamp-hours (mAh), which are one-thousandth of an amp-hour (for example, a 1Ah battery is 1000mAh). Amp-hours are a rating of the amount of energy that a battery can store. Another way of looking at it is to say that the higher a battery’s amp-hour rating is, the longer the battery’s run-time will be. Some of our batteries will have higher amp-hour ratings than the original battery found in your device and will not cause any incompatibilities. On the other hand, while the voltage of the Hi-Capacity battery may not be identical to the original battery, the voltages must be within a reasonable range. In order to rate the voltage of the cell, a voltage value between 3.0 and 4.2 must be picked. The voltage that is picked is called the “nominal” voltage, which means that it is for naming purposes only, whereas the actual voltage of the cell depends on the state of charge. Historically some manufacturers picked 3.6V while others picked 3.7V to name the cell. The functionality and performance of either cell is identical and cannot be differentiated by the device. The explanation above applies to a single Li-Ion cell in series. When a battery has two or more Li-Ion cells in series, the voltage is multiplied by the number of cells in series, as in the table below:

Number of Li-Ion cells in series
Nominal voltage
Type of device
1
3.6V or 3.7V
Cell phones and Digital cameras
2
7.2V or 7.4V
Digital cameras and camcorders
3
10.8V or 11.1V
Laptops
4
14.4V or 14.8V
Laptops
Thus,
A Li-Ion battery labeled 3.6V is the same as a Li-Ion battery labeled 3.7V.
A Li-Ion battery labeled 7.2V is the same as a Li-Ion battery labeled 7.4V.
A Li-Ion battery labeled 10.8V is the same as a Li-Ion battery labeled 11.1V.
A Li-Ion battery labeled 14.4V is the same as a Li-Ion battery labeled 14.8V.
9. How Long Do Batteries Last (What is the Life Span of My New Battery)?

The life of a rechargeable battery operating under normal conditions is generally between 500 to 800 charge-discharge cycles. This typically translates into one and a half to three years of battery life for the average user. As your rechargeable battery begins to die, you will notice a decline in the running time of the battery. When your two hour battery is only supplying you with an hour’s worth of use, it’s time for a new one..

10 Things Every Home Based Business Owner Needs

Posted by admin on September 20, 2009
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When you make the decision to earn income from the internet you will need to go through a set up process to be ready for business.

Following are the basic steps in setting up for home business success.

1. Attitude

The key to your business success is your attitude.

Treat your business like a business.

This is critical whether you are working part-time or full-time. One of my colleagues is a mother who works from home around her family. She has always put her family first whilst at the same time developing her business. She says, “I work part-time, but I have a full-time attitude.”

Put another way, “If you have a hobby attitude you will have a hobby income, if you have a business attitude you will have a business income.”

You can be successful working part-time and you can be successful working full-time but it is highly unlikely that you will be successful working in your “spare time”.

2. Working Environment

A space that you can call your own, free from distractions for your scheduled time.

A comfortable chair and organized desk.
Stationery supplies as required. For example:

- Pens
- Highlighters
- Stapler
- Whole punch
- Sticky tape
- note book(s)
- A simple filing system
- Ring binders
- Manila folders

Consider the value of a broadband connection. Your time is valuable and a broadband connection can allow you to get more done in a given time frame.

3. Schedule

Develop a schedule that works for you, your family (or “significant others”) and your business. When you allot a block of time for work then use that time for work. Equally important is to schedule time for your other commitments – family time, self education (reading, listening and viewing), “health time” (exercise, cooking and eating), and leisure time. During these other times don’t work. After all if one of the reasons to work from home is to spend more time with your family then you don’t want your working at home time to consume your family time.

You are working for yourself and your schedule (by your choice) is your “boss”. When you have people calling you or dropping around unexpectedly or maybe out-of-town visitors may want to catch up with you then you need to make a choice. Are you committed to your own business success? What will be your choice in these situations? Only you can decide what is important to you.

In a family environment you may need to negotiate with your partner and children to have your business time agreed upon, during which you will not be interrupted. Put this schedule prominently somewhere so all family members are aware of your work schedule.

4. Describe Your Business

Be able to describe your business concisely; a powerful one or two sentence description that someone can repeat in describing your business to others. A unique and memorable tag line can also be invaluable for promoting your business.

5. Know Your Product or Service

Once you have selected your product or service to sell, it may or may not be something that you use yourself but you need to know your product intimately. If you are selling batteries then know the content and its value. If you are selling software then use it knows it “inside out”. You will develop a reputation of providing quality information and because of your product knowledge you can become the preferred supplier.

It is not practical to use certain products (for example a woman may choose to sell man’s shoes or vice versa) in which case the seller won’t be a product user, however the seller can still know the benefits and features of the product intimately.

6. Administration

Use good record keeping practices.

This may involve a consultation with a tax advisor who can let you know about the optimal way to set up your financial records and what records need to be kept. Your advisor will also recommend record keeping systems and you can find out what software may simplify this aspect of your business. Additionally your obtain advice on the best arrangement for your bank accounts. You will most likely be advised to have a separate bank account.

You will also need to keep track of your various logins, usernames and passwords. A very handy little software tool for this is Trepid available as either the free Late version (without password protection) or the commercial Plus or Biz versions.

There are other useful tools for this also from a simple paper notebook to free and commercial password keepers. One popular solution is Rob form that will remember your login details and can automatically fill out your login and other registration forms.

7. Computer Protection

Your computer is the lifeline to your business dealings and must be protected including the data that is stored.

You need a virus scanner, personal firewall, anti-spy ware and anti-aware and preferably an email scanner with the ability to delete suspect of spam email from the server before it is downloaded to your computer.

8. A Domain Name

You will most likely need a domain name for your business and one cost effective

9. Payment Processing

You will need a way to process credit cards; that may be using services such as:

This is the most economical way to get started. Once your business picks up you may need to look into your own merchant account for credit card transactions.

Consideration may also be given to other forms of online currency.

10. Email accounts

Once you have your own domain you can use an associated email account. This can further assist in the promotion of your business and promotes a more professional business image.

As a final comment on continuing in your internet business, conduct your business ethically, provide extraordinary service and be proud to put your name to the products or services that you are selling and you will be on track to developing a sustainable long term internet business.

“Cell Fleur” a greater ability to live longer

Posted by admin on September 18, 2009
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Want to cell phones, laptops and digital music players have a greater capacity and longer battery life? “The flower cells” may be a solution. The chemists said they have developed a flower-shaped nanoparticles with superior material to that of conventional batteries of the electrical properties. This group of scientists will be held on October 8 edition of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters (Nano Letters) magazine published a report that the “nano-flowers” could provide energy for the next generation of electronic devices.

Gaoping Cao and his colleagues noted that the nano-flowers is not new. The use of different materials scientists have developed different types of flat-shaped nano particles, including the use of manganese oxide – for traditional batteries to provide power, a key component metal . However, this group of scientists argue that the previous generation of nano-flowers is not appropriate for future electronic products, they need more energy and prolong battery life.

In the new study, researchers first cluster grown carbon nanotubes, which consists of a thin line of pure carbon, is a human hair ten-thousandth the diameter of 5, they were known to have excellent electrical properties . The researchers then used a kind of called “electro-deposition,” a simple, low coating technology allows cost of carbon nanotubes deposited manganese oxide, resulting in nano-size clusters have been observed by electron microscopy, they are similar to the micro – the dandelion. The researchers say, leading a high-capacity energy storage, long life and more efficient than conventional battery materials, battery system.