Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery "event"

2018-07-20 Thread Steve Higgins
Kris, I'm happy that your client is "okay", this is truly a dangerous situation. The plates are compressed together with a very thin separator between them. If the tops of the plates were exposed they could spark thru the separator, and ignite hydrogen gas leaving the battery.This with the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery "event"

2018-07-20 Thread Jerry Shafer
Kris the internal plates are soldered together and can fail open and have been know to make a spark as they make contact again, you can see this in the aftermath by looking where all the plates contact the bridge inside the battery, when adding the water resulting in the cooling of the battery like

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery "event"

2018-07-20 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
Kris, It would be nice to see a picture of the whole battery bank. I would guess a spark/arc from bad battery wiring practice/installation during charging. Just the hint that he was watering to avoid you seeing the bad maintenance on his part would make me walk. I always am extremely leery of "inhe

Re: [RE-wrenches] Ac Coupling

2018-07-20 Thread Larry Brown
Kirpal Thanks for the recommendations If you have a diagram that would be most helpful and generous What Lithium Battery are you using with this configuration? Much Appreciated Larry Larry Brown Sun Mountain 845-657-8096 sunmount...@netstep.net On Jul 19, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Kirpal wrote: Lar