Philips Bodine Nickel–Metal Hydride (NiMH) Battery Finder

Philips Bodine designs and manufactures award-winning, innovative emergency and specialty lighting products. Phillips Bodine offers a diverse line of products, including emergency LED drivers, fluorescent emergency ballasts, inverters and generator-compatible products to turn your existing lighting fixtures into emergency lights. With over 50 years of experience, Philips Emergency Lighting leads the way in Emergency Lighting products.

 

Emergency lighting is a vital part of every facility’s life safety program. Local, state and national building codes such as the NFPA®, Life Safety Code® and National Electrical Code®, require reliable emergency illumination for a minimum of 90 minutes in all commercial, industrial and institutional buildings in the United States. Philips Bodine products have helped give companies, facility managers, contractors, architects, specifiers and lighting designers the peace of mind that their buildings' pathways are well lit during an emergency for over half a century.

At Emergency Lighting, we stock all the essential battery styles from top manufacturers to ensure your emergency lighting and exit signage is always up to the task when you need it most.

 

There are many variations of rechargeable batteries available depending on the specific needs of your application. See the descriptions below to find the right battery to meet your needs.

 

NiMH batteries can have two to three times the capacity of an equivalent size NiCd, and their energy density approaches that of a lithium-ion cell. Nickel–Metal Hydride batteries are good for high current drain applications because of their low internal resistance.

 

The disadvantage of NiMH batteries is their high rate of self-discharge. NiMH batteries typically lose 4% of their charge per day of storage. LSD NiMH batteries significantly lower self-discharge, but at the cost of lowering capacity by about 20%.