Hoppecke fiber nicads [RE-wrenches]

Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar ozsolar at ipa.net
Thu Nov 22 06:16:19 PST 2001


What have you found out about charge efficiency and self discharge? 
Generally speaking Nicads are much worse than lead acids in both categories.

Travis Creswell
Ozark Solar
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>From: "Jeffrey Wolfe, Global Resources" <global at sover.net>
>To: "'RE- wrenches at topica.com'" <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
>Subject: Hoppecke fiber nicads [RE-wrenches]
>Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 9:52 PM
>

>Hi all,
>
>Well, so far we've avoided them, but it looks like we *may* get into a 
>system design using some Hoppecke Fiber nicads. (20 cells FNC 306 L). While 
>I've asked the manufacturer for info and application recommendations, what 
>is everyone's experience with using these with Trace SW and RV Power 
>Products equipment? Everything I've seen connected to these (and it's 
>admittedly not much) is working poorly because the charge controller does 
>not charge the batteries high enough, and the inverter shuts down on over 
>voltage when the batteries get close to a correct voltage.
>
>Are there easy and good solutions for these? Does anyone have long-term 
>systems out there with these that they are happy with?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>
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