{"id":21987,"date":"2018-06-13T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=21987"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:03:12","slug":"battery-test-centre-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/battery-test-centre-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrisome Results From Canberra’s Battery Test Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lithium-ion

Canberra’s Battery Test Centre has been going a couple of years now. What do the results so far tell us about the state of the home battery market?<\/p><\/div>\n

I am very happy.\u00a0 I just found out there is a battery testing centre in Canberra.\u00a0 Who would have thought there would be something useful in Canberra?\u00a0 Besides, of course, for the Federal Government and the bureaucracy that’s necessary for the functioning of a modern representative democracy.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The full name of the facility is the Lithium Ion Battery Test Centre<\/a>.\u00a0 But since that’s a bit of a mouthful and because they test a few batteries that aren’t lithium, I will just refer to them as the Battery Test Centre.\u00a0 They independently test batteries with the aim of providing the public with information and since they’ve stated that’s their goal I will\u00a0be lifting images and graphs from their reports without remorse.<\/p>\n

So far they have attempted to test a total of 18 different batteries.\u00a0 At the moment only 16 can be\u00a0tested, which is not a good sign.\u00a0 They installed the first 8 in\u00a0the middle of 2016 and they acquired another 10 one year later.\u00a0 They publish a report on their results roughly every 6 months.<\/p>\n

The reports clearly show that many batteries have been inadequately tested before being put on sale.\u00a0 Problems have included:<\/p>\n