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General Lithium Battery Safety:

Read the Battery Safety Midnight Sun page!

This page has some safety practices for low voltage LiPo batteries for Radio Control hobbyists:
https://www.rchelicopterfun.com/lipo-batteries.html

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Datasheets:

LG MJ1 Datasheet

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LG MJ1 MSDS - Li-Ion MSDS: 

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- This is a few years old, not sure if it is the most updated version.
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LG MJ1 MSDS:

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MSDS for a battery pack that uses MJ1 cells:

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Electric Bike guide on Battery Pack Designing and Building:

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Part 3 - Spot welding vs soldering, spot welder comparison, flat pouch cells, and tips from the former head battery engineer at Zero motorcycles (don't flash vaporize the electrolyte and melt the separator when spot welding to the negative can and contaminate the electrolyte)

Inside an 18650 cell


Another guide on building a simpler e-Bike pack: http://www.ebikeschool.com/how-to-build-a-diy-electric-bicycle-lithium-battery-from-18650-cells/


Spot Welding:

K-Weld build thread on Endless Sphere



Dave Jones EEVBlog Li-ion Videos:

Li-ion/Polymer Battery Charging Tutorial 

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urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6mKd5_-abk

Charging Lithium Batteries with power supplies 

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urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNmlxBXEqW0



Determining State Of Charge - SoC:

http://liionbms.com/php/wp_soc_estimate.php



ASC Presentations on Battery Packs:

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Dissipative vs Non-Dissipative Balancing (Active vs Passive): http://liionbms.com/php/wp_passive_active_balancing.php

Internal Resistance: https://www.rchelicopterfun.com/lipo-internal-resistance.html



NASA Battery Design Presentations:

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Contains cell screening report: https://www.energytech.org/wp-content/uploads/ET2016Presentations/ET16-4G2DevelopmentofDistributedLithiumIonBatteryforSpaceSuitMiller.pdf

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/17681422/nasa-lithium-ion-batteries-thermal-runaway-human-spaceflight?fbclid=IwAR15sZJUBG7dbOSvMi6fB8VVp9l2wNmItr9OJtPdE5DU5d46mocATy-NKRo


Battery Building Kits - Interesting but not suitable for our applications

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