Battery choice: one string or two? [RE-wrenches]

Darryl Thayer daryl_solar at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 9 00:45:32 PDT 2003


Hello Tom
How is bussbars different? Do you mean paralleling the
cells? and then the string? 
Daryl

--- "Tom Elliot, Guffey Energy Works"
<telliot at wagonmaker.com> wrote:
> I guess this is where I step in and mention buss
> bars.  A single string is
> prone to failure of the entire bank if only one cell
> fails, something you
> would have to design for, IMO, because it is always
> possible to get a flawed
> battery that doesn't show its true colors until it's
> been in use for a
> while.  With a buss bar you don't "daisy chain" and
> have the problems that
> brings but you have the redundancy you need to
> protect from problems.
> 
> Tom
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