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[*] posted on 4-5-2015 at 07:57 PM
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I have always thought that battery's are like fish,boats,and women..all men love them....but few understand them...any how heavy gassing (plate burning) should be kept to the very min. and btw needs to be safely vented.....as it can/will blow up.......carry on ....hope to meet you some day Gulliver...K&T
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[*] posted on 4-6-2015 at 05:07 AM


geezzz...been living off the grid for awhile

batteries need to bubble...
bubbles clean the "plates"

you need to keep batteries a little "hotter" than the "factory specs"...
if you don't they go "stagnant"
don't be afraid of "boiling"

solar power only means battery power...
the solar panels charge the batteries...
battery power is converted to house current

in the "old days" 2volt batteries were considered "better" to store energy...
in the "real world" 12v is the "standard"

think 12volt

in my WHOLE life working with a "FLEET" of vehicles I've only seen one battery explode...pretty messy






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[*] posted on 4-6-2015 at 06:21 AM


Think strings of 2, 6, or 8 volts for 48 volt home systems. Most cost efficient and overall efficient solar systems for home power.
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[*] posted on 4-6-2015 at 07:34 AM


Cortez Blue posted a question as to why things on this board go to never never land so quickly. A very similar post started out on Talk Baja and it has gone for a long time and no one there had to prove they knew more than Bob and Susan who has been doing a large solar system to run his bed and breakfast for a long time. I guess the sum is the equal to all of its parts but some of the parts may well be defective.



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[*] posted on 4-6-2015 at 08:32 AM


The phone company systems I took care of were 48 volt strings (standard everywhere) and each cell weighed perhaps 800 pounds. No way were they going to combine cells! There were also strings that added up to 130 volts for old vacuum tube stuff and teletype circuits.

Needless to say all of the tools we used near these strings were completely insulated not just because of electrical shock possibilities but because a dropped tool on the connecting buss (4" x .5" copper bars) would produce a catastrophic arc.

Also no metal watch bands or rings worn for obvious reasons.

We recorded the individual cell voltages and monitored the temperatures but seldom went near them with a hydrometer. I was maintaining cells in 1970 that had been service since the depression.
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[*] posted on 4-6-2015 at 08:42 AM
watches and rings


Funny that you mentioned that..I stopped wearing them many,many years ago as I was always taking them off.. Today I don't own any...not good around electrical for the arm,hand.....its all in the Details.....
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