Is this (softball question here) because the aluminum terminals start to oxidize in the atmosphere and the sandpaper takes that light (but very tough and durable) corrosion off? This corrosion would add significant resistance to the battery terminals.
sean On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Bill Dube via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Almost forgot. > > If you didn't lightly sand the cell terminals and coat with thin film of > NoAlOx, then you need to do that now. Yes, doing this is a pain in the > butt, especally after it is all put together, but it must be done to get > good, low-resistance, reliable, connections on the cell terminals. (They > are aluminum.) Otherwise, you get symptoms exactly as you have described. > > Bill D. > > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- Sean Korb spk...@spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140730/1af64a47/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
