VARTA Lithium Thionyl Chloride batteries offer extended lifetime for Smart meters

Contributed by AlexStapleton

Application: Industrial

Information type: Application Notes

Keywords: VARTA battery Lithium Thionyl Chloride smart_meter

Manufacturer: VARTA Microbattery

Technology: Power Management

Theme: DesignSpark

Overview

It is essential to have high quality, reliable batteries in a meter to ensure they meet the working life expectations of that meter. These have increased recently in many SMART meters to greater than 10 years. Further to this the batteries must support data acquisition and data storage.

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These requirements are tough for a battery to meet especially when you also state that depending on where the meter is situated the temperature fluctuations could be huge too over the course of one year, affecting the performance of the battery too.

Pls see the attached note (on gas meters but suitable for electricity, heat and water) to learn about the Lithium Thionyl Chloride range of batteries which especially in the D sized footprint can meet these tough requirements.

This product is available from RS in various connection guises including standard, tagged and axial leaded.

Click on the link to see the stocked products at RS.

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/batteries/non-rechargeable-batteries/d-bat...