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MEXICOWANDERER
Apr 22, 2017Explorer
ktmfrs
Right On!
Only one single cable per post. Here's why. If a cable to post connection (vulnerable to acid with a flooded battery) goes bad ALL the power is lost and diagnostic work is instantaneous. Go to the battery. With multiple post connections, partial system loss means having to trace out the malfunction.
Locate a cutoff switch and buss bar AWAY from flooded battery fumes. Here's where even MORE 5mm LEDs were used on Quicksilver. Soldered bridges between lugs and the buss bar. Bad connection? The LED lights. I have the L-16 (similar size) Rolls & Surrette batteries and I suspect they are 7% antimony critters. Even with exquisite volt/temp float, they need makeup water every 8-10 weeks (less than 1/2 cup per cell.
That means they gas and from the color darkening of the battery posts and pure lead dipped lugs having anything else near the posts would be a big detriment.
Battery posts are NOT solid lead busses leading down to the grid header on ANY TYPE of battery. The posts are pressure-squashed pin-and-hole assemblies. On Mil-Spec batteries I had to meld molten lead to enjoin post to grid header. Drill, melt antimony bar, with an acetylene plumbers torch. These were military L-Pad post units
Right On!
Only one single cable per post. Here's why. If a cable to post connection (vulnerable to acid with a flooded battery) goes bad ALL the power is lost and diagnostic work is instantaneous. Go to the battery. With multiple post connections, partial system loss means having to trace out the malfunction.
Locate a cutoff switch and buss bar AWAY from flooded battery fumes. Here's where even MORE 5mm LEDs were used on Quicksilver. Soldered bridges between lugs and the buss bar. Bad connection? The LED lights. I have the L-16 (similar size) Rolls & Surrette batteries and I suspect they are 7% antimony critters. Even with exquisite volt/temp float, they need makeup water every 8-10 weeks (less than 1/2 cup per cell.
That means they gas and from the color darkening of the battery posts and pure lead dipped lugs having anything else near the posts would be a big detriment.
Battery posts are NOT solid lead busses leading down to the grid header on ANY TYPE of battery. The posts are pressure-squashed pin-and-hole assemblies. On Mil-Spec batteries I had to meld molten lead to enjoin post to grid header. Drill, melt antimony bar, with an acetylene plumbers torch. These were military L-Pad post units
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