Hybrid Batteries

Hybrid batteries are type of battery which combines the advantages of both maintenance free and low maintenance battery. Hybrid battery can withstand seven deep cycles without losing its charge retaining capability. The grid construction of hybrid battery is special and it contains somewhat 2.76% antimony as alloy in the positive plate and calcium as alloy in the negative plate. Such formulation of the battery plate allow it to withstand the deep cycle performance and also it provides better performance on cranking. The use of antimony in positive plate as alloy reduces grid growth due to which the plates shorting together and corrosion also. Another material lead calcium in positive plates producing less gasses than conventional batteries are producing.

Hybrid battery pack

There is another difference of these batteries manufacturing that their plates have lug which are located very close to the center of the grids. Another difference is the horizontal and vertical grid bars are arranged in radial shape. These two arrangements the center lug location and the radial grid bars design makes the plates less resistive and provides shorter path to the current produced by the battery. This makes the battery producing and delivering more current at faster rate.

In this kind of batteries glass separators are used which are coated with resin. Glass separators have low electrical resistance and high chemical contamination and less reaction with chemical. They have prolongs life and strength. Such a construction of the battery provides more battery life and much better cranking performance.

Some people confuse hybrid batteries with batteries used in hybrid vehicles. This point must be cleared that hybrid battery in this article don’t mean the battery that is used in hybrid vehicle instead this is a type of battery which is the improved form of sealed lead acid maintenance free battery and the low maintenance batteries.

Hybrid battery cell

Although hybrid vehicles do used such kind of batteries as their battery bank but that is not a must. Now a days an new kind of battery have been invented by two scientists which have a very prolonged life or about 20 years with very good charge capacity to weight ratio. These batteries have charge discharge cycling expectancy of 10,000. These two scientists have been awarded with Nobel Prize for their invention.