Handbook Of Batteries (Hardcover)

by David Linden (Editor), Thomas B. Reddy (Editor)

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provides you with authoritative information …This unparalleled resource puts at your fingertips the best technical guidance available anywhere … -- Battery Man, June 2002

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HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES

Smaller, lighter, more powerful and longer-lasting batteries are necessities in the increasingly portable, ever-more-wireless world of laptops, handheld, cell phones, medical devices, and other modern necessities.

Edited by battery experts David Linden, battery consultant and editor of the first two editions, and Dr. Thomas Reddy, a pioneer in the lithium battery field, Linden's Handbook of Batteries, Third Edition, provides you with authoritative information on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type. This edition focuses on advances in cell efficiency over the past six years, including new information on lithium ion and large nickel metal hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells. This unparalleled resource puts at your fingertips the best technical guidance available anywhere, so you can: Determine the performance characteristics of batteries under all conditions; Select the most suitable battery for a given application; Apply leading-edge technologies, materials, and methods in new designs and products and have necessary data and equations at your fingertips.

Contents include: Principles of Operation, Primary Batteries, Reserve Batteries, Secondary Batteries. (Battery Man )

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1200 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 3 edition (August 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071359788
• ISBN-13: 978-0071359788
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #55,105 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE Authoritative Book on Batteries, February 25, 2003

By	Haresh Kamath (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a battery engineer, I've found this handbook the single most useful technical reference in battery design, application, and troubleshooting.

The chapters are divided by battery chemistry, and each is written by an expert in the field. Most chapters include detailed technical descriptions of chemistry, electrical characteristics, construction details, applications, and pros/cons charts.

The 3rd edition features significant changes, including updates to older sections as well as new sections on progress in advanced battery systems, and an immense new section on lithium-ion batteries.

My only complaint is the lack of uniformity across chapters in terms of informational content and format. This can make comparison of battery technologies difficult. Some chapters go into too much technical detail, while some others leave out critical considerations.

These are relatively minor quibbles, however, and do not make the Handbook any less valuable to anyone dealing with batteries or other energy storage systems.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great source to defend against Internet misinformation., May 14, 1999

By	Alan Kilian (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handbook of Batteries (Hardcover)

I got this book when it was published in 1995, and have used it at least twice a year just using NiCd batteries. There are many times I read something on the Internet that is simply wrong according to this book. I have used NiCd batteries that I would have otherwise thrown away because the information in this book told me that they were not irreparably damaged.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The most comprehensive battery almanac ever, January 3, 2007

By	L. Katayama "tokyomango.com" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book because I had an assignment at work that required me to learn every possible thing about lithium ion batteries. I consulted general interest encyclopedias, battery experts at universities, and various online sources, but none of the above provided the comprehensive, unbiased information that Handbook of Batteries promised. It includes useful comparison charts and historical information about the development of single-use and secondary batteries, from the clunky short-lived lead-acid battery of the 1800s to the fuel cells of today. The language is surprisingly easy to understand for the lay person.

The downsides are that it weighs a ton and that the pages are so dense that you might as well be reading a dictionary cover to cover--a dictionary that's all about batteries.