Nickel Strip Guides
Plain-English nickel strip guides for battery builders and buyers: what it is, how to size it, why it overheats, and how much current it can carry.
- What Is Nickel Strip? A Plain-English Guide for Battery Builders and Buyers — Nickel strip is thin pure nickel used to weld lithium-ion cells together. What it is made of, the main types, how it is specified and how it is sold, in plain English.
- Why Did My Nickel Strip Overheat or Melt? 5 Causes and How to Check Each — Nickel almost never melts in a battery pack, but it can run hot. Where the hot spot is tells you why: five causes, and how to check each with a thermometer and a multimeter.
- How to Size Nickel Strip for a Battery Pack: Step by Step, With a 13S4P Example — There is no ampacity chart for nickel strip. Here is the method in seven steps, worked through for a 13S4P 18650 pack with real strip dimensions and the arithmetic shown.
- Nickel Strip Current Capacity in Five Diagrams — Five diagrams explain how much current a nickel strip can carry: size, resistance, heat, cooling, duty cycle and fuse necks, with one real strip worked through.