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

[Bill Loesch]

Dan,

If you do decide to transport them in the aircraft cabin, make sure the
pilot/dispatch/etc. knows that he is carrying flooded (wet) batteries and
how they are secured and what kind of spill containment is in place. It's
one thing for you to know the results of a spill and be willing to accept
that responsibility for your own vehicle, its a totally different ballgame
when someone else must accept that responsibility. That is one part of the
principle behind hazardous materials transportation. Make no mistake,
transporting flooded batteries is transporting hazardous materials.
(Sulfuric acid and aluminum aircraft structure are not friends.)

Interestingly, if the SLA battery case breaks, they then, too qualify as
hazardous materials. (i.e., UPS delivers a shipment of SLA batteries, when
you open the package one or more battery is case is cracked. The return trip
(if financially justified), is (properly) made under a hazardous material
label (and with additional cost).

Good luck,

Bill Loesch
Solar 1 - Saint Louis Solar
314 631 1094

Good call, Ray, with the altitude change.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R Ray Walters" <ray at solarray.com>
To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Trojan T-105 non-vented shipping caps?


> Bob's idea of strapping them together is good. We do the same thing to
move batteries on horrible washboard roads, it definitely keeps them
upright.
> Also, consider the altitude change in flight, as that could pressurize an
unvented battery to dangerous levels. You definitely want to keep them
vented.
> For as small a project as this is ( 2 batteries?) and with all the
problems, I'd seriously consider sealed batteries in this instance. No
spills, no maintenance, better freeze protection.....
> (golf cart batteries don't normally get flown around by helicopter!)
>
> R. Walters
> ray at solarray.com
> Solar Engineer
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2010, at 1:47 PM, bob wrote:
>
> > You might want to tie the batteries together with a ratchet strap. That
will
> > probably do a better job of keeping them from turning over more than if
they
> > are just single batteries.
> > The plastic under the caps will probably keep the acid from spilling.
But I
> > would shake them to free any loose bubbles before I put the caps on,
with or
> > without the plastic.
> > You could then just put them in a heavy plastic bag, and make the sign
of
> > the cross and hope for the best.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org
> > [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Dan Fink
> > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 10:54 AM
> > To: RE-wrenches
> > Subject: [RE-wrenches] Trojan T-105 non-vented shipping caps?
> >
> > 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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