Battery knowledge · Testing methods
Oven test
Heating a charged cell in an oven, typically at 5 °C/min to a set temperature such as the 130 °C of IEC 62133, and holding it there to check that it survives without fire or explosion. Hot-box variants keep heating until thermal runaway, showing how much margin the separator and chemistry provide.
- Also called
- hot-box test, heating test, thermal abuse test
Example
Testing methods: an example situation
Resistance immediately after a current step can differ from a ten-second value because slower polarization contributes.
Read Oven test alongside Abuse testing in this context. Deliberately driving cells and packs beyond their limits — overcharge, crush, nail penetration, external short, heating, drop — to see how they fail. Standards define each test and rank the outcome on a hazard scale from no effect to explosion.
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.