[RE-wrenches] FLA battery set points with larger arrays

[jay peltz]

HI Steve,

Can you explain the difference between plate temperature and over all
battery temperature?

What sort of temperature difference are you seeing?  IE post is hotter or
cooler and by how much.

thanks
jay



On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Steve Higgins <steve at surrette.com> wrote:

>  Typically you want the BTS installed and any and every case…  The BTS
> should be installed below the level of the plates not on the top of the
> battery.   To do this you need to have the BTS about 1/3 to ½ the way down
> the side (Single Wall) of the battery, and I would suggest running some
> duct tape around the battery on the sensor to keep it on the side of the
> battery.
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> For a Double wall battery, Although the sensor will be close, it will get
> better readings in between the plastic walls.  To do so you can pull the
> top off the battery and put it between the walls.   There is usually some
> black silicone around the pos/neg terminals, all you need to do is replace
> that with regular old RTV silicone…
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> Post mounts are okay, but Surrette prefers the side mounts with another
> method of securing the sensors…  The post mounts only sense the plate temp,
> not the overall temp of the battery.
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> Temperature is a killer, and my years at Outback, and Trace I had no idea
> of how damaging this was until I came to work for Surrette.
>
> For every 10 Degrees C above 25 you lose 50% of your life cycles… For
> example if you installed these in the Mojave desert where six month of the
> year they would reach 95F+ you would probably lose about 25-30% of your
> life cycles… One of the ways to combat this if you can is vault them…it’s a
> lot of work, but the earth even in those environments will keep them
> cooler.
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> *Steve Higgins Technical Services Manager *P: +1.902.597.4020
> M: +1.206.790.5840
> F: +1.902.597.8447
>
> *Surrette Battery Company*
>

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Jay Peltz
Peltz Power
jay.peltz at gmail.com
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