<div dir="ltr">HI Steve,<div><br></div><div>Can you explain the difference between plate temperature and over all battery temperature?</div><div><br></div><div>What sort of temperature difference are you seeing? IE post is hotter or cooler and by how much.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>jay</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Steve Higgins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@surrette.com" target="_blank">steve@surrette.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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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