Battery knowledge · Testing methods
Instrumented cell
A cell built or modified with sensors inside — thermocouples in the jelly roll, optical fibres with Bragg gratings for temperature and strain, reference electrodes, pressure sensors — to measure what surface sensors miss. At high current the core can run several degrees hotter than the can, which only such cells show directly.
- Also called
- sensorised cell, embedded sensors, fibre Bragg grating, FBG
Example
Testing methods: an example situation
Resistance immediately after a current step can differ from a ten-second value because slower polarization contributes.
Read Instrumented cell alongside Jelly roll in this context. Electrodes and separators wound together into a spiral. It is the inside of a cylindrical cell and of many prismatic cells; large pouch cells usually use stacked sheets instead.
Use in Lemonergy
Record specimen, state, instrument, temperature and timing.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Battery Test Manual For Electric Vehicles, Revision 3
Jon P. Christopherson · Idaho National Laboratory · 2015
Topic background · Performance characterization, pulse resistance/power, life testing and reference performance tests; historical 2015 edition.