New Battery technology (Score 1)

The Avestor batteries were a new innovation for powering telecommunications network elements. They were a lithium based chemistry (LiIon) instead of traditional lead acid gel cells. The advantage was supposed to be about twice the service life (6-8 years) instead of the traditional 3 to 5 years. Lithium is a reactive element and if they were having a problem where an internal short was causing thermal runaway, you have a reactive element combined with heat. Not a good thing...