Re: [RE-wrenches] wrenches] intermittent battery problem; ...Battery Sulfation

2011-11-13 Thread john
Ron, I had the same problem with my own battery bank last year. It puzzled me for weeks until I finally started checking battery voltage of each battery after every change in load or charging. The culprit was an intermittant failure of one cell in one of my L16 batteries. Since I had a

Re: [RE-wrenches] intermittent battery problem; ...Battery Sulfation

2011-11-13 Thread jay peltz
Hi Ron, Here is what I would do. 1. install a amp hr meter without this you have no idea of what is going in/out. So when they mention the batteries drop rapidly to 22.8, they can now see how many amps are going out. 2. record voltages to 2 decimal places of each battery when these anomalies

Re: [RE-wrenches] intermittent battery problem; ...Battery Sulfation

2011-11-13 Thread larry
Ron, I stick by my evaluation as seen here: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/msg10694.htmlThe #1 reason for my opinion is that you can NOT drive up voltage on a healthy bank that size in just 5 minutes. It is impossible with a 2500 watt generator. Here is the pertinent

[RE-wrenches] Strange voltage readings, power quality

2011-11-13 Thread mac Lewis
Hello wrenches, I am having an interesting grid-tied issue and would love to get some input. The installation is 3 Fronius IG Plus inverters all single phase, two 7.5s and one 10.0. The service is 120/208. We have the two 7.5s feeding a dedicated 3 phase sub and tied back into the main panel

Re: [RE-wrenches] Strange voltage readings, power quality

2011-11-13 Thread Darryl Thayer
jm7 y first thought is a bad neutral connection, it could be heavy neutral current do to harmonics,  The grow lights put a load on the neutral by third harmonic.  I have seen a switch gear burn up after we put the school on electronic balasts.  Darryl From:

Re: [RE-wrenches] Strange voltage readings, power quality

2011-11-13 Thread Kirpal Khalsa
I had this also happen recently with a battery bank.we found that the cables had some bad connections due to a poor connectionwe had used QuickCote on the cable lugs and the battery lugs prior to installing the cables. We disconnected all cables and wire brushed them, reassembled and then