Two groups of 11-cells each of 26.5 ampere-hour (Ah) aerospace-design nickel-cadmium cells as used in several low-earth-orbit satellite applications have completed beginning-of-life characterization testing and are now on life test at RCA Astro-Electronics. The purpose of this test program is to determine the effect on cell behavior, if any, of a separator change made by the manufacturer, General Electric Battery Business Department (GE), in all of their aerospace nickel-cadmium cells. Preliminary test results, presented in this paper, show no effects of the separator change, a comoared to the 'control' cells, on early-life cell performance. However, end of charge voltages are higher independent of separator, than they were for early lots of GE cells.
Preliminary test results for evaluation of NiCd flight cells containing Pellon 2536 separator
Vorlaeufige Testergebnisse fuer die Bewertung von NiCd-Batterien fuer den Flugbetrieb mit dem Separator Pellon 2536
1986
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Conference paper
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