If there is a tiny-winy spark from any source it will explode big BOOM!! I had a 285 Ah explode while I was charging it for maintenance and I accidentally moved the cables and exploded. The serious part is that I was hit in the left eye by one of the caps that was unscrewed for gas escape and I was one week in bed to stop the internal bleeding and since then I have developed a cataract on my left retina. That was 30 years ago.... Grow and be wiser,(some times).
Yanni Marinated S/V Princess Thalia Hamilton-Fifty Point @H3 www.yannismarine.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norm of Bandersnatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "A LiveAboardList" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Battery Explosions > > > Ann-Marie, > > While I have no doubt you are correct in all you say, but I would like to > hear your explaination for batteries exploding during charge. > > There was one at a marina I lived in years ago, Green Cove Springs Marina, > where someone was charging a 8D starting battery on the dock. > > But the one that always comes to mind was in the house bank of the > publisher/editor/owner of Home Power magazine, Richard Perez. His entire > operation, the magazine and his home, "The Plywood Palace", runs on solar > and wind. He described a windy, sunny day when he was doing an equalizing > charge on his large array of L-16 (385 AH each) 6VDC batteries under a > work > bench when one exploded "with the sound of a rifle shot". There was > nobody > in the shop at the time. After he cleaned up the mess with the help of > friends, neither he nor his knoweldgable friends could explain why the > battery exploded. > > Any ideas? > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Julington Creek FL > 30 07.72N 081 38.4W > > >> >> I have worked in telephone exchanges with battery backup systems > consisting >> of hundreds of large cells in parallel. These are tens of thousands of >> amp-hours and copper busbars 2" x 1" and larger to carry the currents. > In >> all the years and experience there has never been a "catastrophic" > battery >> failure due to a bad cell. >> >> Regards, >> >> Ann-Marie Foster, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.12/1202 - Release Date: > 29/12/2007 1:27 PM > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
