At 11:06 AM 9/28/02, you wrote:
>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.
The main problem is flooded batteries. The other issues are minor. Flooded
batteries of any sort are prohibited in electric motorcycles and are also
prohibited in the draft Jr Dragster rules. They are also prohibited in open
wheel vehicles (dragsters). There is, however, a very strange (and recent)
addition to the NHRA electric dragster rules that allows "sealed vented
NiCad batteries" whatever that means. I talked to the NHRA when this rule
came out and they don't know what "sealed vented NiCad batteries" would be.
The flooded batteries (of all sorts) throw quite a bit of liquid
around in the event of a mishap like a burst battery or an accident. This
is why flooded batteries are not allowed in these classes. If a person
figured out a way to make them as safe as AGMs, then it would make sense to
allow the person to do it on an exhibition basis to prove out the concept.
_ /| Bill "Wisenheimer" Dube'
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