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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Megger has a family of testers that we have used successfully. Look closely to verify the equipment chosen will do what you need. I like the Bite 5.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.megger.com/en-us/products/bite5-battery-tester-series">https://www.megger.com/en-us/products/bite5-battery-tester-series</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Pieter Huebner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jay via RE-wrenches<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 26, 2024 6:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jay <jay.peltz@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] SLA battery analyzer recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would contact GNB and find out what testing products they recommend and testing procedures. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Sep 26, 2024, at 4:38<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM, Glenn Burt via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">West Mountain Radio makes a Computerized Battery Analyzer that would perform testing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-Glenn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sent from my 'smart'phone, so please excuse typos and spelling errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">James Jarvis via RE-wrenches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thu, Sep 26, 2024 4:29 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Cc: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">James Jarvis;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">[RE-wrenches] SLA battery analyzer recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hi Group,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I have a customer who has many hundreds of large Absolyte 2V cells in 24 volt battery banks. They would like some way to quantify the individual cell health. Inspection time available at each site is limited
and the battery SOC will vary. These are off-grid sites and there is no outside power sources available to do actual discharge testing and then the required recharge. If it was absolutely essential, the customer could bring a generator to each site and use
a backup battery charger to put some charge current into the string. But this would be less desirable. Battery strings can be temporarily taken offline, but cells will ideally still need to be connected in series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">What is the favorite magic box type meter for this application? Fluke is my usual go to for portable test equipment. But they don't seem to be strong in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-James Jefferson Jarvis<br>
APRS World, LLC<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.aprsworld.com/" target="_blank">http://www.aprsworld.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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