E meter [RE-wrenches]

[Phil Undercuffler]

I remember hearing that a possible cause of excess water consumption in deep
cycle batteries can be antimony poisoning--caused by not charging batteries
to adequate voltages/maintaining at too low state of charge.  I remember
hearing this either from a battery guru from Sandia Labs at one of Dankoff's
dealer trainings, or from someone at Trojan at an SEI training.  (Sorry I
can't put a clearer name to that wisdom!)\
Phil
Positive Energy

----- Original Message -----
From: John Blittersdorf, Cent. VT Solar & Wind <cvsolar at aol.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: E meter [RE-wrenches]


> Allen,
>    While on the subject of hydrocaps/watermisers, what kind of water
> consumption do you see in L16 sized batteries.  When I was running 16
T`105's
> on my system I was going thru about a gallon a month average of distilled
> water.  With my new bank of 8 Trojan L16's, it seems like I am using a lot
> less water and I don't seem to get as much action (bubbling) in the
> batteries.  Is it the design of the batteries?  I'm finding that floated
> L16's (backup power system on the grid) use about 2 gallons per year (8
> batteries)
>
> Any battery wisdom from the group would be appreciated.
>
> John Blittersdorf
> CVSolar
>
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