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Lithium-ion rechargeable battery market expansion

Posted on September 23rd, 2009 in battery review | Comments Off

Lithium-ion rechargeable battery market expansion

According to the Japanese non-governmental investigative bodies Yano Economic Research Institute recently released report shows that in 2008 the global solar cell production soared by 69.5% to 6.505GW, however, because of Spain’s high-power companies to buy back solar power and other new energy power generation electricity) policy, the size of , together with the U.S. financial crisis triggered by the aftermath of the global economic downturn is now spreading to the solar cell Dell KD476 market, it estimates the 2009 global solar cell production will be 8.295GW, annual growth rate of only 27.5%, far less in 2008 to nearly 70 % growth rate.

Solar cells on the terms of the types, the 2009 forecast for crystalline silicon solar cell production will grow by 20.0% to 6.715GW (the proportion of total output of solar cells 81.0%), thin-film silicon solar cell production estimate by 40.0% year to 500MW ( 6.0%), CdTe solar cell production estimate by 78.7% year to 900MW (10.8%), CIGS solar dell D5318cell production is also predicted to increase 260.0 percent year to 180MW (2.2%).

Yano said the solar cell market in 2009 despite the impact made by the sluggish economy showed growth rates narrowed, provided that such is only a temporary phenomenon, the follow-up issues with the prevention of global warming continue to simmer, solar cell market is expected to continue to expand. Yano also said that although the follow-up solar cell market is expected to continue to expand, but to enter the solar cell market as vendors continue to increase, in the past continue to successfully expand the market share of large companies will also be into a bitter struggle, in the future solar market from the old ” made out of respect as the hybrid (HV) of Sony VGP-BPS9/B , as well as the best-selling electric vehicle (EV) the introduction of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, more and more attention. expand the use of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, the pace is accelerating, Executive Chairman of Hitachi, Ltd. Takashi Kawamura president and chief executive, said: “will be for the use of social infrastructure and industrial development of large lithium-ion power batteries.” symbolic significance of which is that Hitachi will be within the year 2009 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi. Hitachi, Ltd. in the future not only for consumer products and electric vehicles, will be facing the electric power storage and industrial equipment to carry out lithium-ion rechargeable laptop battery business.

Lithium-ion rechargeable battery, as the potential uses, the industry is hybrid and electric vehicles such as electric vehicles, high hopes. But at the moment the automotive industry for reliability and durability concerns, on the use of lithium-ion rechargeable Satellite A65 battery, be cautious, the market takes time to expand.

Under such circumstances, there has been prepared without first for the automotive and the first power-storage market for set-based lithium-ion rechargeable XPS M1210 battery production enterprises. This is the ELIIYPower. As Japan’s Keio University, created the risk of the company, the company plans within the year 2009, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture set up factories planned in 2010 with an annual output of 200,000 of the scale of production. Will strive to reach an annual output of 1.2 million. Units used cathode material for safety and durability are excellent lithium iron phosphate Aspire 3000 battery.

Despite Japan’s economic slump was still in the situation, but for the establishment of production bases and to strengthen the financing of research and development progress very smoothly. Its inception in 2006, only the large and Housing Group, Dai Nippon Printing, and Sharp, and other enterprises funded, but by the end of May 2009 and before that received 7.5 billion yen of new funds for the production bases of iBook G4 battery . Among them, the international oil development Emperor Shi, Mitsuuroko, Yaskawa Electric, Hing Bank Leasing, JAFCO (JAFCO), YokohamaCapital have them the investor. Recently, in July 2009 for the purpose of strengthening research and development, from the Toyota Tsusho, Mitsumi Electric, Mitsui Sumitomo VentureCapital received about 8 billion yen investment, 10.1 billion total registered capital of ¥ 67,220,000. Most of the enterprises planning to funding renewable energy such as solar power used in power-storage uses lithium-ion rechargeable Pavilion DV2000 battery .

New Battery Technology Charges in Seconds

Posted on September 21st, 2009 in battery tip | Comments Off

For the successful takeover of alternative energy over conventional sources of energy we need a good battery technology too for power storage. The devices we want to keep on using need to be recharged. And we all know that recharge takes hours whether it’s our mobiles or laptops. If the researchers from MIT has implemented the know-how of these lithium-ion batteries(inspiron b120 battery,inspiron b130 battery), successfully then our waiting hours for recharge will be over.

This breakthrough can be achieved in two years. MIT scientists are hopeful that this battery can recharge a device in seconds. Gerbrand Ceder, who is the professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said, “If you can charge your phone in 30 seconds, that becomes a life changer.” He also explains, “It could change the way we think about technology like this: you would literally be able to charge up while you stand and wait.”

This development can transform the power storage technology and can help hybrid cars or electric cars and give the necessary push to renewable energy. This expertise can reduce the weight and size of the batteries and our devices can be charged within few seconds.

The researchers, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have already made a small prototype cell that charges fully in 10 to 20 seconds, compared with six minutes for cells made in the standard way. The researchers are of the view that this technology will be available commercially within two to three years, because they are not using some new material. They have also nicknamed this technology as the “beltway battery”, after the orbital motorway in Washington DC. His lithium-ion battery latitude d830 battery utilizes a bypass system that allows the lithium-ions to enter and leave the battery speedily. The scientists discovered that by coating particles of lithium iron phosphate in a glassy material called lithium pyrophosphate, ions behave differently. These ions can bypass the channels and move more quickly. As we are acquainted with the fact that rechargeable batteries(inspiron 1300 battery) store up and discharge energy as charged atoms, known as ions, from between two electrodes called the anode and the cathode. Their charge and discharge rate are restricted by the speed with which these ions move.

If MIT scientists successfully complete this project for commercial use, we can charge electric car batteries in less than one hour. Till now recharging is one of the greatest hurdles for mass production of electric cars. Solar and wind energy generation can also be benefited with this breakthrough. These lithium-ion batteries(inspiron b120 battery,inspiron b130 battery) can be utilized for storage of excess energy.

UPS is not the standby battery

Posted on September 20th, 2009 in battery review | Comments Off

UPS is not the standby battery

All along, UPS is the government procurement an important component of the data center as Laptop battery , whether it is off-line, on-line or a range between the two interactive UPS, its status as a power source has never wavered. However, the performance is perhaps the lack of visibility and intuitive, the data center’s “unsung heroes” in government procurement which has not been full recognition of the procurement people, the power is large enough to make even more errors on the application of government procurement UPS products have lost IT equipment, due to the protective effect, while the performance and configuration of the blind application of a variety of problems still plagued the procurement people. But in fact UPS is not the simple standby Sony VGP-BPS9 VGP-BPS9A battery.

With the government data center construction projects have gradually increased, UPS will become a popular product of the government procurement. However, UPS did not able to save the status in the procurement of human hearts for Dell laptop battery, carefully look around the tender document for procurement of UPS products will find a lot of purchases of product performance parameters described in very general terms, but also a lack of UPS application environment and supporting facilities in the Introduction. This undoubtedly indicates that the current UPS products, understanding of people there are still no small misunderstanding, but also for the government IT equipment to run conceals potential problems to protect the Lifebook T4215 battery Lifebook T4210 battery.

The lack of awareness of the UPS

Although the number of data centers along with other types of construction and procurement of IT products has a lot of demand, but whenever the issue of UPS products, many of the people are going to purchase it as a spare “XPS M1210 battery” look.

Center for UPS in the government procurement procurement project, called for procurement of UPS products, power 20KVA, but the measure of IT products of the most important technical indicators, the relevant requirements only power output capacity, rated output voltage, crest factor, rated input voltage of 10 item-based performance parameters, and limited the performance parameters of the procurement people are completely unable to reflect the actual needs of UPS. Yes the ups can power our IT equipmeny when the Pavilon DV8000 battery. Journalists and a number of purchases were carried out on the UPS to communicate product performance and found a lot of procurement people UPS is also understood to remain in the Uninterruptible Power System (uninterruptible power supply system) in this literal sense.

In fact, UPS has already jumped out of a simple function of the uninterruptible power supply functions instead of Pavilon DV9000 battery , the system also shoulder the IT systems more stable and reliable electricity, reduce electricity unusual problems caused by a variety of data anomalies to protect the information system the orderly operation of the function. Can be said that UPS now not just for IT equipment to provide electricity, but also become a high-quality power protection. In government, health care, scientific research, aviation and other fields are often small changes in power supply system, or interference would be a substantial impact on information, the consequences are often disastrous, UPS as the “protection of God” also is self-evident importance.

Lenovo’s ThinkPad batteries recall

Posted on September 16th, 2009 in battery review | Comments Off

Lenovo is offering to replace certain lenovo batteries sold with its ThinkPad line of laptops, warning users that they may be permanently damaged due to errors.

The company is offering free replacements for batteries that do not recharge or suffer from “irreparable damage,” according to Lenovo’s support Web site.

Users need to run a diagnostics tool to see if batteries show any of those symptoms. The tool can be downloaded from Lenovo’s support site. If it indicates the battery is either damaged, shows sudden drops in the fuel gauge or fails to recharge, then the battery may need to be replaced.

Eligibility for a free replacement also depends on the laptop model and specific battery installed. Only a limited number of ThinkPad batteries qualify for a free replacement, the company said on its support site. The replacement offer applies to worldwide customers.Thinkpad T60 battery,thinkpad t61 battery,thinkpad x60 battery and so on.

Lenovo did not respond to requests for comment on the cause of the error. However, the company wrote on its support site that this was “not a safety recall and does not pose a safety hazard.”

The U.S. Consumer Safety Protection Commission in June 2007 asked Lenovo to recall about 100,000 ThinkPad batteries that could overheat and cause a fire. Those batteries were manufactured by Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.

The laptops affected by this issue include the ThinkPad R60, R61, T60, T61, X60, X61 models with battery part numbers 42T4546, 42T4566, 92P1141, 42T4550, 42T4567, 42T4568, 92P1169, 92P1173, 93P5028, 93P5030.

How to use and conservation of GPS built-in lithium battery

Posted on September 15th, 2009 in battery review | Comments Off

How to use and conservation of GPS built-in lithium battery

1. Do not deliberately GPS built-in lithium Laptop battery that will put clean in the charge, when the system prompted a time of low power can be charged, should be put before the injury for the lithium battery is not small.

2. To use the random charging accessories for charging, do not use third-party charger.

3. Most of the built-in lithium-car GPS, so do not be demolished or converted the laptop battery without permission.

4, as far as possible to avoid the body exposed to extremely high or extremely low temperature environment, but also to avoid the erosion of the liquid.

In fact, Car GPS built-in lithium Pavilion DV2000 battery is not your imagination so fragile, so long as a little heart, the conservation and reasonable, built-in lithium battery life can be maintained at three years and change bad habits, we can give built-in lithium battery with the greatest protection, let give full play to their power as a car navigation system to provide a stable life to protect.

At present, the market most of the mainstream car GPS with built-in lithium battery power supply. Lithium-ion iBook G4 battery has a discharge stability, small size and other features relative to conventional nickel-metal hydride and nickel cadmium batteries for the obvious advantages. Many portable electronics market, digital products are used in lithium-ion battery power supply.

But lithium-ion Toshiba PA3399U-2BRS battery is not perfect, the use of lithium more stringent environmental requirements, and the high cost of batteries and the discharge current is its relatively small defects can not be ignored. Then, as the use of large lithium-ion batteries: automotive GPS products, the use of lithium batteries that power supply should be careful when there. In daily for VGP-BPS2C battery conservation, and many casual habits could have built-in lithium-vehicle navigation systems cause fatal injuries. So we specialize in power from a vehicle built-in lithium use and conservation aspects of the daily summary of some experiences to share.

Many users use the GPS when the car, regardless of the body are used to power the adequacy of the charging of plug in vehicles to use, such use would cause harm lithium batteries in serious even built-in lithium Toshiba PA3451U-1BRS battery can not be used. Plug in Car Charger for GPS because the car after the power supply will be carried out on the built-in lithium rechargeable, if the user habitually used GPS navigation, you are doing each time you use the equivalent of charging and discharging, thereby affecting the battery life. Which affect the capacity of lithium Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery life and a major factor is the need for a battery charge and discharge times, which is why many users feel less and less power-car GPS durable reason.

The right to use is: should wait to run out of electricity, or GPS navigation instrument in itself to give low power to remind the car after the connection charge for charging to use. If your car GPS Car Charger to use the long-term connection, it is best to conduct a full-month charge and discharge, which is run out o飞Dell inspiron 6400 battery power to conduct a full volume of charge, so that the greatest degree of protection can extend the life of lithium batteries.

The user has just purchased for GPS products, its appearance in general only 50% of capacity or less. When you first use the Apple laptop battery in I need to put power to make, and then charging an external battery charger, and charge for the first time the best more than 15 hours, the second and the third meeting such as the battery runs out after use, the charging time is best but also more than 12 hours, but it should be noted that charge no more than 24 hours, otherwise the battery will produce a surplus of energy resulting in the internal decomposition of the electrolyte inside the battery voltage increase caused by natural or explosions.

In addition, for long-term non-use of the GPS, the Li-ion Dell laptop battery will automatically discharge the next best to the battery is full before use after use, so as to avoid over-discharge the battery caused damage. The use of GPS in the process, try to avoid exposure to the body or in a humid environment, the use of harsh external environment would cause instability in Li-ion battery discharge.

OLPC battery life testing

Posted on September 14th, 2009 in battery tip | Comments Off

On Sunday night, 60 Minutes reran a segment on the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project originally broadcast in May. I missed it the first time and never got around to watching it online (in Windows video format here, for example; there’s a full transcript on olpctalks.com).

Hearing OLPC representative Walter Bender repeat the claim of “10 or 12 hours” of laptop battery life “with heavy use” reminded me of an open question from the last few times I blogged about the OLPC project. What is the battery life of this machine, really?

Back on July 21, the News page for the OLPC wiki (archived here) said this:

We ran battery-life tests on 75 B4 laptops: results will be reported on the OLPC wiki this week.
But I looked around on the wiki during that week and didn’t see anything.

So while Andy Rooney was blathering on about kitchen gadgets he doesn’t use, I started looking around again, and I finally found results. It was a roundabout search. The OLPC wiki’s own search engine can’t look for multiword strings, and Googling the site produced no results for “xps m1330 battery testing,” but “battery test” gave me a page of test results without any explanation.

That led me to a bug report on the OLPC developer site and an explanation of the results back on the wiki.

As it turns out, battery life is not very good. The best of the NiMH (nickel-metal hydride) batteries produced a little over 4 hours of operation. Of the two brands of lithium-ion laptop batteries(dell xps m1330 battery,xps m1210 battery) tested, one was about the same as the NiMH batteries; the other ran for a little over 5 hours. (Some of the NiMH batteries died after only a few minutes, but the bug report explains this away as a firmware problem.)

And this was with the machine idling–running nothing at all. Under “heavy use” it’s likely the battery life will be less than two-thirds of these figures; maybe half or less.

I am certain that xps m1330 battery life will improve over time as the software and hardware are tuned, but these numbers make it pretty clear that the claim of “10 to 12 hours” is no longer within reach. That’s disappointing. To me, this means that much of the long-term promise of the OLPC project can’t be achieved until the next major revision of the platform.

Lithium battery explosion reason and prevention

Posted on September 11th, 2009 in battery tip | Comments Off

Lithium battery explosion reason and prevention

According to the U.S. well-known science writer Marshall Brain series of articles in the lithium batteries introduction, the vast majority of lithium battery explosion caused by a short circuit, and the specific reasons, including charging overvoltage / over-current use of aging.

Lithium laptop battery manufacturing process, because the manufacturing process itself flawed, it is easy to be insulated in this between the two poles, leaving metal dust, copper foil, aluminum foil pieces. The angle is expected in the battery than the fever (more common in long-term use or charging), the like boiling water in a grain of rice, as in the electrolyte to make random thermal motion. If you happen to have the Canon BP-511 battery positive and negative particles or debris near the middle of the diaphragm level, it could create a divide perforation, triggering micro-short circuit. As the batteries are flammable organic electrolytes, micro-short-circuit may cause an explosion, burning and other accidents, generally have the following three cases:

1. Sparks ignited the electrolyte, and thus bring disaster to come into contact with plastic body and flammable, resulting in fire;

2. Was experiencing an increase of temperature caused by the battery, the discount laptop battery inside the space is small, perhaps because of increased pressure to explode;

3. Batteries slower rise in temperature, the battery case to melt gradually, so that corrosive electrolyte leakage.

Lithium Dell Inspiron e1505 Battery safety problems can not stop now, because then the advanced manufacturing technology, will inevitably lead to planting the seeds in the electrolyte “missile.” Should be noted that the formal sector of lithium battery production and sales have strict norms of acceptable quality lithium batteries, the number and size of debris have been controlled within a small, very low risk of perforation of diaphragm; batteries outside the Shell also used flame-retardant material, is not prone to fire.

The explosion-proof lithium battery of measures

Lithium Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery safety problems, the battery manufacturer, of course well aware, then what they used explosion-proof measures? Li-ion batteries for notebook computers, for example, its working principle is: Lithium batteries near full charge and discharge almost drained when the voltage drop, the control circuit detects this situation, notify the protection circuit cut off power supply to prevent overcharge or excessive discharge, so as not to shorten battery life.

The current notebook lithium batteries possess a more complete multi-level protection mechanism, even in the power charger, notebook computers unusual circumstances, the Dell Inspiron 1300 battery laptop can also be converted to automatic protection status, is generally not an explosion. But once the control circuit and protection circuit of the ability to work reduced hours, the battery on the verge of “dangerous” the. Mobile phones and other electronic products, lithium battery charge and discharge protection mechanisms, similar to this.

Do not need it “at arm’s length”

In recent years, lithium-ion electronic products explosions often found newspapers, aroused a lot of consumer panic, some people for their own mobile phones, MP3 charging often “at arm’s length”; also because of fear, simply a long-term will be cast aside Dell laptop battery, cause scrap. However, survey results, the majority of lithium battery explosions are the result of the user pay attention to safety tips, such as unauthorized modification, use of non-matching charger, the A1175 A1079 battery placed in extreme environments such as making.

Should be pointed out that the lithium Dell inspiron 9400 battery technology as a kind of after 30 years of study, has successfully commercialized the mature technology, its safety is guaranteed. Regular brands of lithium batteries at the factory will have been numerous Road test procedure after they are sold as well as information feedback mechanism in order to recall the product in question in time.

United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is given following the recommendations of the safe use of lithium batteries:

1. Using the original charger: Li-ion battery charging time is the high period of bombing. Than the original VGP-BPS5 VGP-BPS2C battery charger is compatible with the battery charger to ensure better security.

2. Use of a reliable battery: try to buy original Sony laptop battery, not to save money to buy “second-hand goods”, such batteries may be through maintenance, and reliable than original batteries.

3. Do not place the Latitude D620 battery extreme environments: high temperature, collisions, etc. are all important causes of battery explosion, as far as possible so that the battery is in a stable environment, away from the high-temperature areas.

4. Do not attempt to modify: the phone is a sophisticated communications equipment, in the design, manufacturers will have on its security, strictly textual research. After modification, the battery may be at not taking into account the environment before, an increase of security risks.

sony cybershot h3 digital camera introduction

Posted on September 9th, 2009 in battery review | Comments Off

If you’re reading this, then you probably already know that there are a lot of different kinds of cameras in the world. This year, we saw the birth of a new variation with the advent of superzooms that don’t have electronic viewfinders, such as the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3 original battery code np-bg1 I’ll be writing about here. The upside is that the cameras can be smaller than their EVF-laden counterparts, and if you despise peering into a tiny hole at an LCD while framing your shots, then you’ll welcome this evolution. However, if you’ve discovered as I have that an EVF can come in handy when shooting certain subjects (I like using one when shooting baseball batters), then you might want to check out one of Sony’s other superzooms, such as the DSC-H7 or DSC-H9 , these two digital camera battery code sony np-bg1.

While the H3’s small body design (for a superzoom) is definitely handy when trying to fit it in a bag or jacket pocket, it leaves few options for the button layout. Sony basically had to put the zoom rocker smack in the middle of where your thumb should naturally rest, which might seem good at first, but I ended up accidentally nudging it often when shooting, throwing off my zoom setting and messing up the framing of my shot. If Sony would’ve moved the shutter button a little to the left and the mode dial forward, the zoom rocker could’ve been moved farther right and given room for your thumb. However, as the body design goes, that’s the biggest flaw. The grip, though small, is effective–curl your middle finger over the top of the grip, and the rest of your fingers fall nicely into place, though it does leave your pinky dangling, which always irks me. It seems as though camera makers have begun to despise the pinky finger. Most entry-level dSLRs and almost all superzooms have grips that can’t fit a pinky.

Dominating the front of the camera is a Carl Zeiss-branded Vario-Tessar 10x optical 38-380mm equivalent f/3.5-4.4 zoom lens, which feeds light to an 8.1-megapixel CCD sensor. Around back you’ll find a 2.5-inch, 115,000-pixel LCD. Caffeine addicts should be pleased to know that the H3 includes Sony’s Super Steady Shot optical image stabilization to help compensate for hand shake. In case the built-in lens isn’t wide or long enough for you, Sony offers both a 0.7x-wide angle converter (VCL-DH0758 bp-511) and a 1.7x telephoto converter (VCL-DH1758). The necessary adapter ships with the camera and can also accept 58mm screw-on filters. The camera also comes with a lens hood that attaches to the front of the adapter. Unfortunately, it’s so large that it obscures a large portion of the flash, which makes the use of fill flash almost useless if you use the hood. However, the adapter itself can likely provide enough shade from the sun when the lens is zoomed to its widest, which means that the hood is only really necessary when shooting telephoto shots, in which the camera’s built-in flash probably won’t be able to provide fill flash anyway.

As is the rage these days, Sony separates the H3’s menu system into two sections. If you press the Menu button, it brings you to the shooting menu, which is home to settings you change often while shooting, such as image size, face detection, exposure and flash compensation, ISO, white balance, and more. If you press the Home button, you go to the setup menus, which let you control less-oft-changed settings, such as whether you have a lens adapter attached, or whether you want the AF assist light on or off. The menus use a new design that looks very similar to the menus on Sony’s PlayStation Portable. They look nice and are pretty intuitive, though it’s strange that there’s an option for the shooting menu in the home menu, but if you select it, it tells you to press the Menu button instead of just porting you over to that menu.

Like a lot of superzooms, the H3 includes manual exposure controls, though there are only two apertures to choose from and these vary depending on the focal length you’re using at any given time. You won’t find aperture- or shutter-priority, but there are the usual array of scene modes, some of which are in the menu and some of which reside on the mode dial, as well as program and full auto shooting modes.

Sony says that the H3 can output images and video to an HDTV if you buy the optional VMC-HD1 component video cable for about $40. However, since it’s not included with the camera and Sony didn’t send us one with the review sample, I can’t verify this, though I don’t really doubt them. This is a nice option, but I’d rather have seen an HDMI output on the camera instead of being forced to buy Sony’s cable. Either way, viewing images on HD has always been a better experience for me than using the regular standard-definition outputs found on most compact cameras.

Except for a slow flash recycle time, the DSC-H3 performed well in our lab tests. The camera took 1.8 seconds to start up and capture its first JPEG, no doubt slowed a bit by the fact that the lens has to extend before you can shoot. It took 1.3 seconds between JPEGs with the flash disabled, jumping to 2.6 seconds between shots with the flash turned on. Shutter lag measured an impressive 0.4 second in our high-contrast test and 1 second in our low-contrast test, which mimic bright and dim shooting conditions, respectively. In burst mode, we were able to get an average of two frames per second, regardless of image size.

Image quality from the H3 can be quite nice if you stick with ISOs 100 and 200, though that niceness is marred a bit by the lens’ noticeable distortion, as well as some purple fringing on high-contrast edges toward the edges of images. I saw more noise than I would’ve liked at ISO 400. While images are still very usable and much of the noise is minimized during printing, there is a noticeable falloff in shadow detail and fine detail at ISO 400. Stepping up to ISO 800, noise increases only slightly, but there’s more of a falloff in shadow and fine detail. At ISO 1,600 noise becomes heavy and most shadow and fine detail is lost. The top sensitivity setting of ISO 3,200 yields extremely noisy images with completely blocked up shadows and fine details. For example, text which was crisp and clear at ISO 200 and below, becomes completely illegible at ISO 3,200. I suggest staying below ISO 1,600 when shooting with the H3 and sticking with ISO 100 or ISO 200 whenever possible.

If you want a long zoom lens in a camera that’s smaller, if not lighter, than most superzooms, Sony’s DSC-H3 is a decent choice. Since this is a new category, it’s hard to draw comparisons, but when Canon’s Powershot SX100 hits the market in October, we should be able to get a better idea of how this Sony compares with the competition.

Nokia Schematics!

Posted on September 9th, 2009 in notebook review | Comments Off

Nokia Schematics!

I was wandering around on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the mobile phone market in Shenzhen and I spied a stall keeper working on a phone motherboard. Unlike most of the other folks in the market, he was working from a set of schematics — that got my attention. I asked him where he got his schematics from and he kindly dispatched his young son to walk me over to the small tool shop on the other side of the market where, buried underneath a pile of single-use BGA SMT stencils, was a collection of mobile phone schematics for just about every phone ( IBM Thinkpad t60 battery) made.

I don’t know about you, but getting my hands on schematics gets me really excited. This is like, the Ultimate Hardware Geek Pr0n. Sure, undressing a mobile phone and revealing its tender innards to my gaze — the sweet perfume of flux residue unleashed, curling into my nostrils — is one level of hardware (as Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery) voyeurism. But, getting the schematics for the phone and peering into its very circuit diagrams — that’s a whole new level, like tearing off the undergarments and ravaging the bosom of the phone. I was excited. I brought the manuals to the clerk and asked how much…wincing at the price I may have to pay to bring these prized morsels back to my hotel room. I breathed a sigh of relief when he asked for only 75 quai — a little over $10 US — for the whole three-book collection. I didn’t even haggle. I grabbed my booty and ran for the nearest taxi.

Alright. Don’t take my double entendre too literally; it’s just fun to write that way. Anyways, on to the manuals…

As you can see, these are sold as service manuals 40Y7001 40Y7003.

A sample index entry.

Each phone has a scan of the circuit board that is annotated to call out the position and function of all the components. This helps with the repair process Lenovo 40Y6799 40Y6797.

A detail of the schematic for the Nokia N95’s RF section.

The same publisher of these schematics also offers a wide library of schematics, including those for Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and Chinese-local “copycat” phones (like the iPhone clone in the lower left hand corner).

It’s hard to say if these manuals are legitimate (in the sense that Nokia deliberately released the schematics for use as a repair guide), or if they were stolen and republished as a “repair guide” for Dell laptop battery. I doubt, however, that they were reverse-engineered out of the phone, because the schematics contain references to codenames and lingo that would not be embedded directly in the circuitboard. A bit of searching around on Google reveals that these manuals are available for downloads in bits and pieces on various websites, but they all seem to derive from a Chinese origin, and not from Nokia directly.

When I give talks about Open Hardware, I emphasize that it’s fundamentally impossible to keep hardware closed, because the source is the same as the product. Schematics can be derived out of a circuit board layout — a completely legitimate activity under US law. There are shops in China that will pull out a netlist in a couple days for under $1k, and services in the US that will take a bit longer and cost you a lot more. Significantly, there is a whole lot more that goes into building hardware than a mere schematic design: it takes me days to capture a schematic, but it takes me months to get it into mass production. Thus, I believe that publishing a schematic makes the product more serviceable and more useful, yet has little negative effect on your competitiveness in the marketplace. This is a key difference between software and hardware Toshiba laptop battery, as the time between writing software and publishing it to “production” can be as short as a few seconds for web-based services.

From my personal perspective, having the schematics is handy for a number of purposes. Aside from satisfying a general curiosity about the phone’s structure, it’s interesting to see the details on how certain sub-circuits are implemented. For example, when I learned electronics at MIT, they never directly taught me how to do EMI mitigation, or ESD protection. While I know the theory behind it, the implementation is trade-craft know how; these are subjects where experience trumps knowledge. Therefore, seeing Nokia’s take on it expands my understanding of the subject.

The schematics are also very useful because of Nokia’s buying power. Picking the cheapest part for a mass-produced hardware design is a tricky exercise; when you leave the realm of buying a few hundred or thousand pieces at a time and move into really high volumes, often times the price of the part has less to do with its design features and more to do with its physical dimensions and who is buying a lot of it. If someone like Nokia is buying millions of a certain part a year, the supply of this part is very stable, lead times are shorter (usually), and the price goes down. So, if you’re a small company and you want to build something cheap, you want to pick parts out of the Nokia supply chain because you indirectly enjoy the benefits of Nokia’s buying power. Thus, these schematics are a good starting point for sourcing cheap parts for production.

Update: got the books for Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, and MediaTek-chipset phones. Found only one Samsung book and it was very out of date. From my observations, the books left on display in these small shops are remainders — typically a little older, perhaps a little less popular. I had to scour the market to find a few of the more recent books, which probably means they are out there but I just don’t know the right person yet. Interestingly, the MediaTek-chipset series of books included some “how-to” manuals on using the chipset to build your own phone. This may be part of the “open” repository of hardware knowledge I previously mentioned in my post about the Shanzhai phone-copiers-turned-innovators.

The article from : bunnie’s blog

Accumulator is no longer pollute the environment

Posted on September 8th, 2009 in battery review | Comments Off

Accumulator is no longer pollute the environment

Kinds of new acid-free batteries – lead-oxide laptop batteries through the national authority before testing, all targets were met or exceeded the national standard. This means that 150-year-old battery technology was a revolutionary breakthrough, making the traditional lead-acid batteries polluting industries into a zero-pollution environment-friendly industries possible.

Lead-oxygen battery is the invention of two brothers – West Cong Zhang, Zhang Sai-wen, who under the leadership of Shaanxi and the Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. After more than six years of research, finally reaction mechanism of electrolyte in the Dell laptop battery research breakthrough and the preparation of a compound salts out of aqueous solution of diluted sulfuric acid aqueous solution instead of the traditional.

Was responsible for this testing is the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Institute of Chemical Physics Power Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, was recognized as authoritative testing organizations within the industry.

According to reports, the submission of the three kinds of laptop batteries are the product under the conditions of industrial production (non-laboratory products). They are the cars to start batteries, electric bicycles and electric vehicles power battery special battery, application fields and market prospect is very broad.

According to experts, currently used batteries generally can be divided into a dry (normal batteries), secondary HP laptop battery (rechargeable batteries, mainly used in mobile phones, computers), lead-acid batteries (mainly used in automobile, electric vehicles) the three class. With regard to the battery pollution, the masses are most concerned about reports the most ordinary Apple laptop battery. In fact, the production process is now common dry batteries without adding cadmium, lead, arsenic and other substances are no longer become a serious source of pollution. On the contrary, a large number of car battery, lead-acid batteries used in electric vehicles because they contain lead and sulfuric acid, but rather rubbish dump, one of the most dangerous items.

It is understood that corrosion of lead-acid battery lead after the spill of heavy metals and acids will not only seriously polluted soil and water, air and the environment, ecological balance can also cause damage, but also trigger the body metabolism, reproductive and neurological aspects of the disease the Dell Inspiron e1505 Batterybattery , the body of lead Once the excessive levels, it will lead to mental decline, but also easy to induce malignant tumors of children, and even lead to death.

Compared with the traditional lead-acid Toshiba PA3399U-2BRS batteries, lead batteries of oxygen greatly reduced pollution of the environment. Of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Dean Zhou Xing, said lead-acid batteries of the solid, gaseous pollution can be eliminated, but can not avoid the water-soluble heavy metal ions of lead pollution. Lead-oxygen IBM laptop battery although the production process and lead-acid battery production process the same, but thanks to a salt water solution instead of sulfuric acid and lead ion concentration is very low, almost no emissions, greatly reducing the risk of lead contamination.

In addition, the lead-oxygen Latitude D620 battery for the replacement of sulfuric acid complex salts and additives can make use of iron and steel enterprises discharge waste from a coal-based chemical synthesis to obtain a simple to solve a number of steel companies can not handle the cost of treatment may need to spend a lot of pollution emissions.

Chang brothers have been lead-oxygen Dell Inspiron 1300 battery in three Chinese national patent. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Electronic Science and Technology Information Institute points (Science and Technology Novelty Search) shows that the world there is no similar technology.

Zhou Xing believes that the world faces an energy and environmental crisis, the advent of lead-oxygen battery of great significance and far-reaching.