Press

Media resources.

Engineering notes, manufacturing deep-dives, and company perspective. For review units and press inquiries, reach out to press@voltpak.ca.

From the VoltPak team

Design
Designing for repair: how we're building VoltPak to be fixed, not replaced

One screw size, an isolated battery bay, and parts you can reach without tools you don't own. The serviceability decisions behind the VoltPak 1000.

Sep 24, 2026
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Engineering
Why we chose LFP: lithium chemistries in plain language

Lithium iron phosphate vs. NMC: energy density, cycle life, safety, cold-weather behavior, and the trade-offs we accepted when we chose LFP for VoltPak.

Sep 17, 2026
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Guide
How to size a power station for home backup: a worked example

Watts, watt-hours, surge, and inverter losses, explained with a real outage scenario, so you can pick the right capacity before you buy anything.

Sep 10, 2026
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Engineering
How we validated the VoltPak 1000 push-pull inverter - and why open-loop isn't good enough

Most sub-$1k inverters ship open-loop push-pull stages with no real-time regulation and bolt-on safety. We designed the VoltPak 1000 around a closed feedback loop and hardware-level OVP, OCP, and UVLP. Here's the validation story.

Mar 12, 2026
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Company
Where VoltPak stands in the open-source hardware world

We publish schematics, PCB Gerbers, enclosure STLs, and a bill of materials for every unit we ship. Here's why - and where we draw the line between open hardware and open firmware.

Feb 20, 2026
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Manufacturing
Inside the VoltPak enclosure: from a CAD file to a pressed aluminum shell

A walkthrough of the eight manufacturing steps that turn a flat sheet of 6061-T6 aluminum into the VoltPak 1000 enclosure - with tolerances, press tonnage, and the one step we almost outsourced and shouldn't have.

Jan 29, 2026
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Review units

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