[RE-wrenches] Hot Trojan Batteries

[boB at midnitesolar.com]

On 4/1/2012 4:19 PM, allsolar at scswifi.net wrote:
> Wrenches,
> Can anyone explain why an L16 bank would be at 165F at rest.  Over a C20 charge rate, but I have a feeling there might be an internal short
>
> Jeremy
> All Solar


The open circuit voltage should give a good  indication of a shorted cell.

Partially shorted cell sure sounds like a good guess.

boB