BATTERY DICTIONARY

Heavy Vehicle: It is the type of battery used in commercial vehicles such as trucks, buses, tractors. These are batteries that are powered for shock and difficult road conditions.
AGM: Batteries produced by absorbing electrolyte in separators.
Air Mix: It is a system used in traction batteries. In batteries with Airmix system, air is pumped into the cells with the help of a special rectifier during charging, the electrolyte is mixed and homogenized.
Current: Electric current describes the electrical power flowing through an electrical circuit. Its unit is "Ampere (A)".
Active Material: Paste, which is a mixture of various chemicals that determines the capacity or starter power of the battery by creating a chemical reaction with the acid in the battery.
Battery: It is a generator that stores electrical energy as chemical energy and when a receiver is connected to its circuit, it converts this energy back to electrical energy and gives it to the external circuit.
Battery Freezing: Although the definition of battery freezing is used in the market, it is actually the electrolyte inside, not the frozen battery. If the battery is in the discharged position, the freezing process will accelerate.
Battery depletion: It is the situation where the battery becomes inoperable, which is called battery depletion in the market. Most of the time, downtime caused by the loss of charge is perceived as a dead battery. After consulting an authorized service, the battery must be replaced, if necessary.
Sub-connection: These are the retainer tabs on the lower part of the battery box. It is designed for connection to the vehicle table.
Ammeter: It is a device used to measure the current drawn from the cable.
Over Discharge: It is when the battery goes into an over-discharge state due to the user or the vehicle.
Overcharging (burn): It is the failure caused by the spillage and deformation of the active substance (paste) in the plates.
Acid Density: It is the measure of how dilute the acid used as electrolyte in the battery.
Maintenance Free: It is a battery that does not require maintenance under normal conditions.
Boomometer: Density measurement instrument used to see the electrolyte density in the battery.
Plug: It is a material made of acid-resistant polypropylene material, designed to automatically discharge the gas released during battery charging.
CCA (Cold Cranking Current): It is the current to run (vehicle engine) in cold.
COS: It is a welding machine that enables the connection of positive and negative electrodes in the battery cell.
Cycle Life: The number of charge-discharge cycles of a battery.
Double Cover: It is a second cover that is attached to the plug on the cover where the battery connects with the box to prevent leakage and to gain a fully closed feature.
Deep Discharge: It is the discharge of the battery to a voltage level lower than the minimum voltage level specified in the standards.
Discharge Current: It is the current drawn from the battery during the discharge process.
Discharge: It is the conversion of chemically stored energy in the battery into electrical energy and feeding a system.
Cycle: When a battery is charged and discharged.
ELA: It is the name given to Improved Lead Acids. (Enhanced Lead Acid)
Electrolyte: It is the form of pure acid diluted with pure water. Optimized for high cycle number, low corrosion and maximum conductivity in batteries, the final density value is 1.285 gr / cm3.
Electrode: It is a positive or negative ion charged plate that enables polarity to form in the battery.
Element Set: It is the name given to the paired positive and negative plates with envelope separators combined with lead welding.
Industrial Battery: It is the name given to batteries specially developed for industrial uses.
Energy: It is the ability to do work. In accordance with the working principle of the battery, it converts electrical energy into chemical energy and chemical energy into electrical energy.
Energy Density: It is the amount of energy that the unit weight of a battery can give.
Exmet: It is a grid production type. Lead ingots are turned into strips and then turned into a grid with the rolling method in the exmet machine.
Gas Expulsion: It is the process of throwing the gases emerging as a result of chemical reactions inside the battery out of the battery.
Gas Discharge Hole: It is the evacuation way that allows the gases generated as a result of chemical reactions in the battery to be thrown out of the battery.
Gravity Casting: It is a casting technique applied by taking advantage of the force of gravity.
Grift Foam: It is the failure caused by the breakage of the pole head, tailstock and element lug.
Silver Tin Alloy: It is an alloy formed by combining the elements of Silver and Tin in certain proportions. Increases corrosion resistance in battery grids.
Hydrometer: Density measurement instrument used to see the electrolyte density in the battery.
Cell: It is the name given to the compartments in the battery box. There are 6 cells in total in 12V batteries. Each cell has 2V electrical current.
Grid: Lead skeleton on which the active substance is plastered, transmitting electric current.
Initial Charge: It is the charging process for the battery to reach the required voltage level after the battery assembly process is completed.
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Indicator: It is the voltage value reached by the battery after the first charging process.
Gel: The electrolyte in the battery is in the form of a gel rather than a liquid state after a special process.
Gel Battery: It is the name given to lead acid battery with gelled electrolyte.
Remaining Capacity: It is the difference between the total capacity of the battery and its used capacity.
Remaining Charge: It is the difference between the total capacity of the battery and its used capacity.
Cover: It is the part that is attached to the box during the assembly process and serves to isolate the components inside the battery from the external environment.
Closed System Cover: It is a cover system that does not allow the battery to be tampered with from the outside.
Capacity: Defined in ampere hours. It indicates the total power that can be drawn from a battery in ampere. The capacity of the battery depends on the surface area of the plates, their number and the permeability of the separators used.
Capacity Decrease: It is the capacity value below the capacity specified on the battery label.
Self-Discharge: It is the decrease of capacity in the battery over time when the battery is not connected to any load.
Short Circuit: It is the failure that occurs as a result of the contact of the positive and negative plates.
Connector: It is the connection equipment.
Position: It refers to the location of the positive and negative terminals on the battery.
Corrosion: It is the failure that occurs as a result of waiting without charging for a long time or deep discharges, also called permanent sulfation.
Curing: It is the heat treatment applied to complete the chemical transformation of the electrodes inside the battery.
Lead: Metal element with atomic number 82.
Lead Sulfate: It is the chemical compound that occurs during the discharge process.
Lead-Acid Battery: It is an energy storage system in which lead element is used as electrode and acid is used as electrolyte.
Box: It is the piece in the form of a plastic chamber that contains all the components of the battery.
Polehead: It is the conductive part that provides the electrical connection of the battery with the systems around it.
Polehead Protection Cover: It is the cover that keeps the pole head away from possible impacts from outside.
Labyrinth Plug: It is a component that helps to reduce water loss in the battery.
Starting Power: It is the discharge current specified in Amperes (A) that provides 7.5V voltage that a fully charged battery reaches at the end of 10 seconds at -18.0 ° C. DIN, EN, IEC, SAE, JIS, TS, etc. It can be defined in such norms.
Central Gas Exhaust System: It is a system that allows the gases coming out of the cells to be collected and thrown over a single route.
Negative Electrode: It is a negatively charged plate.
Negative Plate: It is a negatively charged electrode.
Nominal Voltage: It is the voltage level specified on the battery label.
Oxidation: It is the chemical reaction of lead metal in the battery terminals with oxygen and corroding.
Lifetime: It is the period of time that the expected performance of the battery is achieved.
Parallel Connection: Batteries can be connected in parallel during the rectifier charging process. In parallel connection, the currents should be added up and the rectifier should be adjusted.
Paste: Dough that is plastered on plates as a result of a mixture of chemical substances.
Explosion: The hydrogen gas inside the battery, arc, etc. It is a malfunction caused by damage to the box-cover.
Plate: A skeletal structure that is predominantly lead, on which the active substance is smeared.
Polarity: Polarization
Positive Electrode: It is a positively charged plate.
Positive Polarity: Terminal having positive polarity in the battery.
Positive Plate: It is a positively charged electrode.
Shelf Life: The time a battery can spend on the shelf without needing to be recharged.
Rectifier: Battery Charger.
Pure Water: It is a compound with a density of 1 gr / cm ^ 3, consisting of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atoms.
Handle: It is the part that is used to carry the battery.
Seperator: PE, PVC, Glassmat, AGM material that prevents negative and positive plates from contacting each other and forming short circuit.
Series Connection: Batteries can be connected in parallel during the rectifier charging process. In series connection, the voltages must be added up and the rectifier must be adjusted.
Standard Capacity: It is the capacity value specified on the battery label.
Start-Stop: The start-stop system is a system that helps prevent energy loss by automatically turning off the ignition when your vehicle stops at heavy traffic or traffic lights and starting it again when the driver presses the clutch.
Stationary: Batteries used in fixed facilities.
Sulfation: It is the failure caused by the accumulation of sulphate ions in the electrolyte in the battery on the plate surface.
Charge Current: The current value suitable for charging the battery.
Charge Status: It is the parameter that shows the amount of energy stored by the battery.
Charging: It is the process of storing electrical energy as chemical energy by feeding the battery with an electrical source.
Charge Meter: It is an indicator that gives information about the battery status by attaching to the cigarette lighter in the vehicle.
Fully Maintenance Free: It is a type of battery that does not require external intervention.
Full Framed Plate: It is a type of grid surrounded by a lead alloy frame on all four sides.
Terminal type: It refers to the dimensional difference of positive and negative terminals in batteries.
Tractioner: It is an industrial battery type used in mobile systems.
Valve: It is the material used to regulate the gas output during the operation of the battery.
Voltage: Electrically, for current to travel in a circuit there must be electrical pressure between terminals. This is called the POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE or the interpolar VOLTAGE. Its unit is "VOLT (V)".
Voltage Drop: It is the voltage loss experienced in the battery.
Voltmeter: It is the instrument used for measuring the voltage of the battery.
VRLA: Lead-acid battery regulated by valve
Aging: It is the phase change of lead parts in the battery depending on time.
Density: It is the mass per unit volume.
High Current Discharge: It is to discharge the battery with a current higher than the discharge value specified on the battery label.
High Current Charge: It is to charge the battery with a value higher than the recommended charge current value.