Battery Bussing [RE-wrenches]

[Windy Dankoff, Dankoff Solar]

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Joel D said:
>...
>5. Most battery designers limit to 4 or 5 parallel strings by convention.

I would stress the preference of having a single string, them 
minimize it, then maximum 4.



>
>I have a question about coating the battery terminals before assembly. Is
>the common recommendation after assembly?  I typically have coated after
>assembly and don't coat the AGM's terminals.
>
Travis

There has always been disagreement here, but my reasoning is that 
after assembly, you can't get complete coverage to totally seal the 
joint, especially on the underside. -- That's the case with anything 
of a greasy consistency, like vaseline or copper-containing terminal 
compound. If there is a spray product that flows around and then 
hardens, then maybe that is effective to apply after.

I don't know the state-of-art, but have seen pre-assembly vaseline 
work wonders year after year of no maintenance.

Windy

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