Battery News
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April 14, 2018
What changed with the Power Wheels 12 Volt battery? Back in the fall of 2017 we were grumbling over the enormous price increase instituted by Fisher Price for their Power Wheels batteries. Prices rose a jaw dropping 30% to 80%. As battery specialists this price increase was not unexpected; lead prices rose steadily over the previous 18 months. But ultimately, the price increase was not the big shocker. It is what they DIDN’T tell us about the 12V Power Wheels battery that came as a shock!
Power Wheels 12 Volt Battery Discovery
As we received our latest Power Wheels battery shipment I thought I noticed something different. The cartons, each containing six 12-volt batteries, seemed to be heavier. I initially wrote that off as me getting older and weaker.
As the team started packing the individual orders, I immediately homed in on a visible alteration—the
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November 03, 2016
On October 29th, 2016 a contingent from Impact Battery, a sponsor of the Skull Crusher Project, headed south to showcase the souped up Arctic Cat SxS at the Wildcat Adventures and Off Road Park as part of their haunted Halloween weekend festivities. The 1800 acre park is located a few minutes from I-75 in south central Kentucky just north of London in Laurel county. The weather couldn't have been better! It was a beautiful, unseasonably warm fall day. The balmy temperatures, allure of prizes, and haunted trails teased the huge crowd of thrill seekers and dust-loven-family-focused riders. It was the perfect combination of family fun that kept a steady line of traffic late into the evening.
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October 15, 2016
How do you complete a warranty for a motorcycle battery purchased over the internet? Two humorous thoughts stand out as to why it would be highly inconvenient and next to impossible to ride your motorcycle over and let us look at it. A) Apparently the battery is not working. B) You may not be able to get the 6 days off work, nor have the funds to ride 2200 miles from California to Kentucky. But don’t you worry, we have come up with a series of questions and tests that allow us to evaluate and process your motorcycle battery for warranty despite the distance between us.
This is part three of a three part segment on motorcycle battery testing and warranties. Consider reading segment #1 on the importance of testing as well as the
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September 23, 2016
Energy Products initiated the Battery Partners program in January of 2016. Their goal is to advance the business of all Battery Specialists by being a single source mixed product supply chain solution. Terry McGee, the SLI Division Manager for the Battery Partners program summed it up this way, “We are not just a shop trying to sell you something. We work with you, our partners, to provide solutions to take your business to the next level.”
The customer centric culture within Energy Products fits with how we at Impact Battery strive to do business and serve our customers. If the first annual Battery Fest was a small taste of what Battery Specialist like us can expect as we partner together, then I think our customers and staff will enjoy what the future holds.
I have to be honest; if you asked me what I thought of Detroit a few months ago, I would
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August 12, 2016
To see the latest Impact Battery BBB Review please check out the Better Business Bureau’s Central & Eastern Kentucky listing. Impact Battery has been accredited with the BBB since 2011 and is currently in good standing with an A+ rating.
Yes Impact Battery is Still in Business!Impact Battery was founded in Oregon towards the end of 2009 and was first accredited by the Northwest BBB in 2011 before transferring primary
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July 22, 2016
I was reading about an innovative company known as Advanced Battery Concepts (ABC for short) out of Clare, MI. They have developed a BiPolar battery technology that promises to propel the lead acid battery industry into the limelight once again. For this age old industry, thought to be in its twilight years, fighting against competing technologies, such as lithium-ion and NIMH Cobalt, this truly is remarkable. But what makes this technology so extraordinary? And perhaps more importantly, what is a bipolar battery and why should we care?
A Short Historical Foundation
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September 27, 2014
Why Choose Impact Battery for a $150K Mission Main Street Grant?
There are many worthy organizations deserving of a Mission Main Street Grant, some perhaps more so than Impact Battery. However, we feel our unique and often scoffed at view of how businesses should operate sets us apart from the crowd.
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September 19, 2014
How a Group L16 UB63800 Battery Made an Impact
Impact Battery is delighted to play a role in getting Legacy Broadcasting’s new off-grid radio tower up and running by supplying them with sealed lead acid 6 volt deep cycle batteries and cable accessories. Specifically, we are using the L16 sized UB63800 by Universal Power Group as the backbone of their wind powered station tower.
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October 07, 2013
Buy MotoBatt Batteries for your Gold Wing!
The Motobatt MBTX20U has been featured in the Gold Wing Road Riders Association (GWRRA) magazine, Wing World. The feature article titled, Wired Up, lists some 'must have' and useful electrical devices and accessories for all Gold Wing motorcycle owners. But when it was all said and done, the editors listed the MotoBatt MBTX20U (actually the MBTX20UHD which is the black version of the standard yellow colored MBTX20U battery) as a "
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May 17, 2012
As our technology devices keep getting smaller and smaller, so do many of the batteries that power them up. A special concern to emergency room doctors is an increase in the number of tots swallowing the small, flat, so-called “button” batteries that can have tragic results.
Every three hours a child shows up in a U.S. emergency room with a battery that’s been swallowed or placed in the mouth, ears or nose, a new study shows. Most cases involve a child under the age of 5, with incidents peaking around 2. That number of cases is almost double what it was 20 years ago, according to the report just published in Pediatrics.
The main culprits are “button batteries,” which account for almost 85 percent of the ER visits, researchers found. These flat, coin-shaped batteries are used in a wide variety of electronic devices, from toys, remote controls, calculators, miscellaneous gadgets, hearing aids, and watches. Many of the toys youngster play with are