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Nickel/cadmium aircraft batteries: single sensor temperature monitoring. Technical note. [Detection of short circuits]

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7108303
Most of the failures of nickel/cadmium batteries in aircraft are triggered by the development of a short circuit in a single cell in the battery. An experiment was conducted to determine whether the use of a single temperature sensor on an intercell link would be adequate to warn of a short circuit in a cell located elsewhere in the battery. The results indicate that this would not be adequate.
Research Organization:
Defence Research Establishment, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
OSTI ID:
7108303
Report Number(s):
AD-A-037722; DREO-TN-77-3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English