[RE-wrenches] Battery Bank Off-gassing CO?

[Mick Abraham]

Hi, Daniel~ If your client has quantity six of the L16H batteries, that's
only a 36 volt string, not 48 volts. Let's hope this is only a typo.

The only vapor "emissions" likely from a group of floodies are oxygen &
hydrogen...then there's dilute sulfuric acid mist...but no carbon
component.

Ask Trojan to get the definitive answer. Here is contact info:

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Brian Godber
Vice President - Renewable Energy & Business Development, Trojan Battery
Company
bgodber at trojanbattery.com<http://www.google.com/contacts/a/c/abrahamsolar.com/ui/ContactManager?titleBar=true&hl=en&dc=true#>
 - Work
 (562) 236-3030 - Work
(949)-244-4097 - Mobile

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If the six year old battery group is nearing retirement age, maybe it's time
to replace with sealed units. That would eliminate the battery from
suspicion and allow the client to move on to other investigations.

Jolliness,

Mick Abraham, Proprietor
www.abrahamsolar.com

Voice: 970-731-4675


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Daniel Young <dyoung at dovetailsolar.com>wrote:

>  I was emailed recently by someone in my area saying that she thinks here
> battery bank is going bad and poisoning her home…. My firm did not install
> her off grid system. Her original installer will not respond.
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> She has an 6yr old battery bank w/ 6 Trojan L16H’s (48V). The system has
> 1.2kw of shell solar modules with an MX60 CC and FX Inverter. She noticed
> feeling ill when in the basement where the system electronics were
> installed, so she got out a combustion gas analyzer, (she is a home energy
> auditor), and recorded over 500 ppm CO in the battery bank storage closet,
> not the battery box, but the closet that stores the outback system. That is
> over double the concentration that the US Consumer Product Safety Commission
> considers deathly toxic. She reports this has been going on for the last 1-2
> months. There is one battery box in this closet, with a 3” PVC vent pipe
> going up to the roof. There is no power vent.
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> Has anyone heard of a flooded lead acid battery bank emitting CO? I did not
> think that a lead/sulfur based battery was capable of this. Is it possible
> that her combustion gas analyzer is mis-interpreting some other gas as CO?
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> We already plan to install a power vent at minimum, and to closely inspect
> her ventilation system and improve it as needed. Just curious if anyone else
> has seen this happen before.
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> Thanks,
>
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> [image: Danny]
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