

The most common reasons are too high current either while discharging or charging for the ambient temperature conditions or poor ventilation around the batteries. Lithium batteries can get hot for multiple reasons. In this case, it would need to cool back down before it comes back on. Let’s start with temperature protection, although it seldom occurs that the battery gets too hot. In most cases, once the condition that caused the battery to go into protection mode is resolved the battery will turn itself back on. That can be a shock to some, and many don’t know what to do to get the batteries to turn back on and get voltage back to the terminals.

Even with a damaged lead-acid battery, you will seldom have zero volts on the terminals, but RELiON batteries will shut down and go into protection mode and have zero volts on the terminals. Therefore they can discharge until they just become ruined or they continue getting hot until they are deformed and stop working. This may be new to most people since standard lead-acid batteries do not have a built-in battery management systems.


RELiON lithium batteries are manufactured with the safest lithium chemistry, lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4).
