A Survey of Power Source Options for a Compact Battery Charger for Soldier Applications

Abstract

Typical Soldier power requirements are at the level of tens of watts of average power for missions that can last from 1 (present) to 3 (future) days. The Army's policy, going back almost to the dawn of wireless communication and extending to relatively recent times, has been to rely on primary batteries to supply those power needs for combat and "realistic training" scenarios and to rely on rechargeable batteries mainly as a cost-savings measure for "classroom" training.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA492135

Entities

People

  • B. Geil
  • B. Morgan
  • D. Chu
  • S. Gilman
  • T. Podlesak

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alcohol Fuels
  • Battery Chargers
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Dielectric Gases
  • Electric Power
  • Energy
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Engineering
  • Fuel Cells
  • Internal Combustion Engines
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Military Research
  • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Warehouses

Readers

  • Battery Technology and Engineering
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation