- Source: Photoflash battery
A photoflash battery is a specialized zinc-carbon battery optimized to provide a high electric current output for a very short time, such as required to fire a flashbulb. Service life for this battery in applications where a lower but continuous current is required, such as for a flashlight with incandescent bulb, is short.
Photoflash cells were in production during the flashbulb era, and were phased out as alkaline cells came into general use, and one-use flashbulbs were replaced by electronic flash. The photoflash cell was produced in 1.5 volt D, C, and AA size.
The cathode of a zinc-carbon cell is usually made of powdered carbon black (or acetylene black), manganese dioxide and electrolyte. The MnO2 to carbon ratio varies between 10:1 and 3:1 for general purpose cells, but a 1:1 mixture is used for photoflash batteries, allowing a high current output with intermittent use, as required for photoflash use. These cells have lower capacity than those with a higher content of MnO2.
Another common type of photoflash battery is a series assembly of cells, often providing 22.5 volts, used in battery–capacitor flash units. The battery slowly charges a capacitor, which is then discharged through a flashbulb to provide a high-current pulse to ignite the bulb. Higher-voltage photoflash batteries were also made to fire reusable xenon electronic flash tubes, which require a high voltage, without the use of circuitry generating this voltage from low-voltage batteries. Eveready battery manufactured the 240-volt Eveready 491 (NEDA 729) battery, and the 497 battery providing 510 volts and 180 volts.
See also
List of battery types
References
External links
Cell Construction - Information on MnO2 ratios
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