I concur. thank you.
db
Dan Brown
Foxfire Energy Corp.
Renewable Energy Systems
(802)-483-2564
www.Foxfire-Energy.com
NABCEP #092907-44
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] battery venting
From: "Jeff Yago" <jry...@dtisolar.com>
Date: Wed, January 04, 2012 3:40 pm
To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org>
Here is another issue related to this thread.
Yes, you can build sealed battery boxes and add vent pipes, fans, whatever,
but battery terminals and battery cables installed in a confined box will
have far more problems with terminal corrosion due to more concentrated
forms of gasses and a mist of acid moisture that will settle on all
surfaces.
We have been called in to repair off-grid systems that used battery boxes
only a few years old that had battery cable ends and battery terminals
almost totally dissolved, yet, we have the same type batteries and cables
installed in larger well-ventilated battery rooms that you could eat off of
the floor 10 years later.
I say that battery boxes should be a last resort and used only when there is
no other way, and then you better make sure there are multiple sources of
adequate ventilation air.
Jeff Yago
DTI Solar Inc.
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