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Remote Battery Filling System
On 10 Mar 2007 17:08:01 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote: On Mar 10, 1:59?pm, Wayne.B wrote: On 10 Mar 2007 12:23:23 -0800, "Chuck Gould" wrote: "Large battery banks that are difficult to access" sounds like a serious problem, at least on a boat. What do you do when it's time to replace 'em? Also, with all of the plumbing, etc, how do you get the lid back onto the battery box? Cut some additional holes? (I use a hydro-cap on my Rolls batteries, does a lot to prevent loss of electrolyte), Funny you should ask about replacement since I just had to do that. It was a heavy duty 8D weighing about 130 lbs or so. t's installed back under a shelf in the engine room which makes checking and adding water difficult. o make matters worse I've installed a bank of 4 golf cart batts outside of the 8D in their own custom box with a lot of jumper wires for the series/parallel arrangement. In order to remove the 8D I had to uninstall the golf carts, the jumper wires and the golf cart box. hen I had to slide the 8D out of its hole under the shelf and horse it up out of the engine compartment. ot a fun job, and I ended up giving myself a mild case of tendonitis in my right elbow. My theory (thus far unproven) is that an automatic watering systems would allow me to take better care of the almost inaccessible 8D and get better life out of it. he tubing for the plumbing system looks like it is quite thin and should exit out of the existing cutout in the battery box. e'll see. irst I've got to finish some other projects and then find out how much these fancy battery caps cost. The tubing and filling arrangement should be very inexpensive. The Rolls hydrocaps are nice but I don't know if you can get them for a standard 8D. ow much height do they add? One of the major reasons I used the Rolls 8D, (aside from a 10 year warranty wiht the first 7 not pro-rated) is that they are so super easy to install and replace. You never lift more than about 30 pounds at a whack, as you bolt 6 2-volt cells together inside a battery box. If your 8D's are in a tough spot, it's a lot easier to swap them out in 30-pound increments than making an awkward reach to try and lift a couple of hundred pounds of battery. Why put the chiropractor's seven kids through college? :-) Somebody has to. |
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