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Re:Indonesia's e-bike shops are building their own batteries by actionfromafar on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:40AM (#39765613)
It used to be that one assembled batteries of cells. But language changes I suppose.
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Re:Indonesia's e-bike shops are building their own batteries by zdragnar on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @09:47AM (#39766445)
In this case, each cell is also a standalone battery (an 1850 I presume). Assemblage of these is either called a module or a pack.
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Re:Indonesia's e-bike shops are building their own batteries by actionfromafar on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @10:11AM (#39766826)
An 18650 is a single cell. (Or a battery in modern parlance.) Now, get off my lawn! :-D Just kidding! The terminology shifted. But a cell used to be the single unit of chemistry and catode and anode that gives the native voltage. So an 18650 would be a cell. A 1.5V alkaline would be a cell. A 9V alkaline would be a battery of six cells! And so on.

I'm not saying it's wrong nowadays to say an 18650 is a battery.

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