Publications & Whitepapers

We invite you to review the following technical whitepapers and articles about BattEQ.

C. Pascual, P.T. Krein, "Switched Capacitor System for Automatic Series Battery Equalization," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, Feb. 1997, Vol. 2, pp. 848-854.

S. West, P.T. Krein, "Equalization of Valve-Regulated Lead-Acid Batteries: Issues and Life Test Results," Telecommunications Energy Conference, Sept. 2000, pp. 439-446.

P.T. Krein, S. West, C. Papenfuss, "Equalization Requirements for Series VRLA Batteries," Sixteenth Annual Battery Conference on Applications and Advances, Jan. 2001, pp. 125-130.

P.T. Krein, R.S. Balog, "Life Extension Through Charge Equalization of Lead-Acid Batteries," Telecommunications Energy Conference, Sept. 2002, pp. 516-523.

C. Pascual, P. T. Krein, "Switched Capacitor System for Automatic Battery Equalization," U.S. Patent 5,710,504, January 20, 1998.

H. Schmidt, "Apparatus for Charge Exchange Among a Plurality of Series Connected Energy Accumulators or Energy Converters," U.S. Patent 5,814,970, September 29, 1998.

J. Kimball, P.T. Krein, "Analysis and Design of Switched-Capacitor Converters," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, March 2005, pp. 1473-1477.

J. Kimball, B.T. Kuhn, Battery Equalization for Off-Road Vehicles, SmartSpark white paper.

B.T. Kuhn, G.E. Pitel, P.T. Krein, "Electrical Properties and Equalization of Li-Ion Cells in Automotive Applications," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Vehicular Propulsion Conference.

B.T. Kuhn, R. Spee, P.T. Krein, "Lifetime Effect of Voltage and Voltage Imbalance on VRLA Batteries in Cable TV Network Power," 2005 IEEE INTELEC.


Testing of SmartSpark BattEQ Equalization for Ultracapacitor Applications