[RE-wrenches] Absolyte recovery

[Chris]

Hi Mac,

We had a cell failure on an Absolyte system we inherited and contacted;

Jeff Lambert 
Product Support and Warranty 
East Penn Mfg. Co., Inc. - Unigy Battery Division 

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Jeff was very helpful.

I do wonder if your charge controllers are getting the array power out to
the battery bank, was there any damage to them too? Is the Apollo 4048
inverter/charger doing its job, is it undersized for the size of battery
bank?

 

Sincerely,

Chris Worcester

Solar Wind Works
NABCEP Certified PV Installer
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"Proven Energy Solutions"

 

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[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of mac Lewis
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:43 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Absolyte recovery

 

 Wrenches,

 

We have inherited a Telecomm system in which the batteries have had a very
hard life.  A lighting strike knocked the system off line for about 5
months, and ground fault dragged the batteries way down about a month ago.
Now, we are seeing about 10h of generator run time/day indicating to me that
the batteries are not holding voltage at all.

 

  I am uncertain of the exact specs at this moment, but it is a 24 Absolyte
IIP batteries (5 years old), with a 5 kW array, two Apollo T80HV charge
controllers and an Apollo 4048 inverter charger.

 

I don't have experience with these batteries.  Is there any way to try to
recover these batteries?  Any good contacts with GNB would be useful.

 

Thanks


 

 

Wrenches,

 

We have inherited a Telecomm system in which the batteries have had a very
hard life.  


 

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Mac Lewis

"Yo solo sé que no sé nada." -Sócrates

 





 

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Mac Lewis

"Yo solo sé que no sé nada." -Sócrates

 

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