Hi Joe:
I got a good deal on a Gibbs rack mount frequency standard because the oven was not working. This was a double oven
system and used a Bliley 5 MHz glass tube crystal.
It turns out that having a lead acid battery anywhere near heat (like a crystal oven) is a very bad idea since the acid
fumes will literally eat the traces off printed circuit boards.
This is probably a potential problem for any battery chemistry that can vent
acid fumes.
You might want to remote locate those SLA (Gell cell or whatever name) batteries, i.e get them out of the same box that
contains the crystal oven.
https://prc68.com/I/office_equip.html#Gibbs
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Brooke Clarke
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Hello Roy,
I replaced the original batteries with two 12 Volt 3.3 Ah SLA batteries and a
string of diodes between the batteries to compensate for the different battery
voltages.
This is not perfect, but it works for about 3 years before the batteries need
replacing. I used 7 1N4004 diodes in series to prevent overcharge and a
MBRF1045 diode across the diode string to allow discharge. The SLA batteries
float at 13.7 volts each.
Be careful to not let the metal battery box touch and short the meter terminals.
I used some of the original battery box plastic strips between the now loose
battery box and the meter.
Best,
Joe, W7LUX
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