A new finger on the pulse

Low-cost digital switching brought pulsed techniques to battery charging in the the 1990s, no matter what the cell chemistry. Now a Latvian-based company is bringing a variant of that technology to lead acid battery formation. The Editor reports.

More than a decade ago, pulsed charge was the latest craze for lead acid battery technology – a means of breaking down the sulfation that inevitably formed during the cycling of lead acid batteries. It lead to longer battery life and is now widely adopted throughout the battery industry . . .