[RE-wrenches] Trojan T-105 non-vented shipping caps?

Dan Fink danbob at hughes.net
Fri Jul 30 07:53:47 PDT 2010


Esteemed Wrenches;

Hopefully Ronald from Trojan can help me here, or maybe someone else has 
done this.

In my recent remote Northern BC install, we have a pair of T-105s at a 
remote location, installed in a plastic cooler. They will need to be 
moved to the central Lodge install for winter maintenance charging, as 
their installed location gets *zero* sun for 3 months of the winter.

The lodge staff will be moving the cooler via helicopter....*hopefully* 
on the back seat, but it may be part of a long-line sling load. They 
have had some pretty harrowing sling load work this year, including a 
broken skid on the helo and some trees that got a 'haircut.' I can 
almost guarantee that had the batteries been on that load, they would 
have lost some electrolyte from tipping.

My question is -- are "shipping caps" with *no vent holes* available? Or 
could we use plastic baggies? I hate the idea of the lodge staff 
accidentally getting bits of plastic bag into the cells.

DAN FINK
Buckville Energy Consulting LLC
http://www.buckville.com/



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