Ok folks lets have some facts.
My Saft NIcad Mil spec 40 amp hour 2000+ amp battery from YEARS ago in
Seattle, is in a ALUMINUM Box.
It's shipped that way. There is corosion on the Cell posts and on the
interconnect bars. There is NO corosion on the Case and lid that is
inches away and uncoated and as clean as the day it was made in the 8th
month of 1976.
DID I make my point??? The NIcad Case that holds the Cells is
Aluminum!!!!
Both Saft and Marathon do this.
Still steel or Stainless has been recomended. Just to keep the Nay
sayers as happy as possible.
Also let it be known I intend to do NiCads and NiZn batteries, and race
them in NEDRA.
NiZn and NiCd batteries are magnitiudes safer than the SVR and Hawkers,
and Optimas that we blow up and melt down on a daily bassis. We just are
used to it.
Common sense here should rule and the cold engineering should be rather
obvious.
--
Rich Rudman
Manzanita Micro
www.manzanitamicro.com
1-360-297-7383,Cell 1-360-620-6266
