[RE-wrenches] Batteries in parallel Failure

[William Miller]

Friends:

I have seen 200 A T series fuses bolted directly to the battery terminals 
(I've even bolted a 175A breaker to a flag terminal!).  Might this be a 
crude but effective method to obtain inter-array OC protection?

Wm


At 08:41 PM 4/19/2011, you wrote:
>I have now been close to three battery fires caused by thermal 
>runaway,  (the telecom industry has had many many more.  Before they got 
>the controls to fix the problem..  Here my suggestion is limit the maximum 
>current that can flow in a parallel circuit between batteries.
>
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