Cheaper 2 volt cells [RE-wrenches]

[Kurt Albershardt]

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--On Monday, September 29, 2003 8:53 PM +0000 Christopher Freitas - OutBack Power <cfreitas at outbackpower.com> wrote:

>> It would be nice if IBE could manufacture a middle-ground battery
>> line,similar to Surrette, here in California for the market West of the
>> Rockies. I recently discussed this issue with them and got a poitive
>> response. Who knows, it might actually happen some day.
>
> I have spent some time with Dyno battery here in Seattle discussing this
> very issue - the need for a "bigger than L-16 / smaller than a forlift
> battery" option. Dyno supplies mostly industrial, marine and specialty
> batteries in the NW and Alaska.
>
> Dyno is now offering a 2 volt cell battery in a L-16 case - just one big
> cell instead of three cells.  Still has handles and weighs the same.
> Basically, its just a rewired L-16 without the cell seperators.  Think
> of it as a "cheaper" easier to move 2 volt cell.
>
> Also - they have been building large industrial batteries for a
> locomotive application for many years - and it turns out that the plate
> it uses fits in the L-16 case as well.  So you can get these new 2 volt
> L-16s in either the standard plate (about 3/16" thick) or in a heavy
> duty plate (1/4" thick).  The capacity for the heavy duty version is
> something like 800AH @ 2 VDC 8 hours rate versus 1200 AH @ 2 vdc for the
> standard L-16 plate version.


Just got off the phone with them (since their WWW site appears offline at the moment) and the standard L16 plate is .140" yielding 1050 AH while the industrial plate is .250" yielding 750 AH.



Waiting for spec sheets and pricing now...

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