[RE-wrenches] Ideal platform for flooded type batteries: opinions wanted

[Exeltech]

Mick,

Radiant Solar Technologies makes HDPE battery enclosures.  They're vented on the sides and have a top vent for directing H2 out.  They're deep enough to fully contain the acid from a fractured battery.

http://www.radiantsolartech.com/batteryboxes.html

I'm using two of their enclosures in my solar trailer and find them very satisfactory.


Dan


--- On Fri, 4/30/10, Mick Abraham <mick at abrahamsolar.com> wrote:

From: Mick Abraham <mick at abrahamsolar.com>
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Ideal platform for flooded type batteries: opinions wanted
To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010, 10:21 AM

Hi, Mechanix~

My "customer du monde" has a dirt floor in the battery space but he's willing to build something on which we could place his "wet" type batteries. 

Concrete is strong but it also tends to begin dissolving when battery acid gets on it. Been there, seen that, didn't like it.



Wood could be strong but what about the dissolving problem? Would pressure treated wood be better than white wood, redwood etc.?

OR: what else would the group advise for a support structure?

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The above questions assume that whatever we do will probably get wet, but that may be too pessimistic. Could someone give me a mini-review of plastic trays which would protect whatever goes beneath? 

I'm pretty sure polypropylene is the right type plastic but short of custom welding by a plastic fabricator...where can I find trays which fit OK with floor scrubber type battery case dimensions?



Thanks all around,

Mick Abraham, Proprietor
www.abrahamsolar.com

Voice: 970-731-4675


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