Jackolantern
100 µW
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2012
- Messages
- 9
Hi all,
Can anyone here explain what "Prismatic" means in relation to cobalt based lithium bareries? I have been dumpster diving at work and come up with a large array of discarded laptop batteries. Each one that I have opened till now has had one dead cell. I just opened a couple IBM ones and they have flat rectangular batteries from Panasonic type is CGA103450, datasheet reads, Lightweight prismatic mode.
So what does this mean prismatic? I have noticed that they are all at an exceptional low voltage, something like 1.6v so I am thinking that these are different that the regular laptop cells, those have all been around 3.7 - 3.8 except the broken cells.
Could anyone explain to me what the difference is with these "prismatic" cells? Are they in some way better, can they handle such a dep discharge, or should I just dump them with the rest of the broken cells?
THanks.
Can anyone here explain what "Prismatic" means in relation to cobalt based lithium bareries? I have been dumpster diving at work and come up with a large array of discarded laptop batteries. Each one that I have opened till now has had one dead cell. I just opened a couple IBM ones and they have flat rectangular batteries from Panasonic type is CGA103450, datasheet reads, Lightweight prismatic mode.
So what does this mean prismatic? I have noticed that they are all at an exceptional low voltage, something like 1.6v so I am thinking that these are different that the regular laptop cells, those have all been around 3.7 - 3.8 except the broken cells.
Could anyone explain to me what the difference is with these "prismatic" cells? Are they in some way better, can they handle such a dep discharge, or should I just dump them with the rest of the broken cells?
THanks.