[RE-wrenches] Wanted: poly battery boxes, many sizes

[Phil Undercuffler]

You can build your own boxes to fit your client's specific application,
using polypropylene sheet stock. It cuts and shapes with standard
woodworking tools, and the seams can be welded (google plastic welder)
or if you're not up for that learning curve you can use 3M VHB tape.
The tape approach is especially handy if you are only building one or
two boxes.

Costs of sheet poly vary with market conditions, but pricing is in line
with what you would spend buying, patching and finishing plywood, but
you wind up with a solid product which won't degrade, rot, conduct
electricity or rust and is impervious to battery acid.

If you don't want to roll your own, I'd check your local yellow pages
for plastic fabricators.  There are companies like UPF that build poly
tanks for fire trucks on a national level,
http://www.unitedplastic.com/pages/products/equip-accesories.html, but
there's nothing magical about welding poly -- you should be able to find
a local shop to build you what you need.


Phil Undercuffler
Director, Battery-based and Off-grid
Distribution Sales Group
Conergy 
Our World Is Full of Energy
1730 Camino Carlos Rey Suite 103
Santa Fe, NM  87507
p.undercuffler at conergy.us
Direct | 505.216.3841
Toll Free | 888.396.6611 x4841
Fax | 505.473.3830
www.conergy.us

-----Original Message-----
From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org
[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Kent
Osterberg
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:25 AM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Wanted: poly battery boxes, many sizes

Larry,

I've found the Contico Pro Tuff Bin (Lowes part number 91573 - $65, or 
Grainger part number 1DZE8 - $70) to work well for holding four L-16 
batteries.

Kent Osterberg
Blue Mountain Solar
www.bluemountainsolar.com


Starlight Solar, Yuma, AZ wrote:
> Greetings Wrenches,
> 
> I need to find a supplier of polyethylene battery boxes for small 
> batteries. 2,4 or 6 golf cart batteries will need to fit in several 
> different configurations. Also for two or four L-16's. Contact me if
you 
> know of any manufacturers or distributors for such products.
> 
> 
> Kindest Regards,
> 
> Larry Crutcher
> Starlight Solar
> (928) 941-1660
> Renewable Energy Products, Service and Installation

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