Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Years ago when building battery racks for ups systems for process control rooms we used welded angle iron and square tubing,
after priming and painting we sprayed on rubberized auto undercoating,
never saw any corrosion on those racks several years later when going back in for upgrades on the controls.

Interesting Lou
Might have to try that

 

[LouNY]

Dang RedNeckGeek and Sadamo

Your bring back memories of things I used to work with and on,
glass jar wet cells series wired together to total 144 volts,
then several racks of those paralleled together to feed large ups's that were line interactive.
Shutting down one bank at a time going thru making and breaking all the connections on every individual cell cleaning and greasing.
Checking each cell with the hydrometer, topping off each with distilled water
I hadn't thought about those battery rooms in a long time.
Some of the cells where round but most of them where square glass boxes,
we would even put new lead plates and separator papers in them on some of the shutdown maintenance outages.
Nothing like that rubber apron, and even back then safety goggles,
removing plates and separator papers, rubber dividers and rebuilding the individual cells.

Had a lot of clothes that had numerous little holes all over them,and lots of little blisters at times.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 34F for the start, calm wind, clear sky. Sky stayed mostly clear, wind stayed light to moderate, and high temp was 66F. Got through most of the resetting of the clocks, still have the clock in the explorer to go. Nade it to Chapel on time, and made wife's breakfast. The rest of the day was energy conservation.
Randy, we downsized 600 sq ft in last move, cant imagine living in 600 sq ft or 200 like some of the smaller ones :confused2:
Ron, that pic of Sassy is priceless.
David sorry you are having so much battery trouble. It is not god not to have a good way forward.
RNG and David it has been interesting to listen to your solar projects I wish you both success in your projects
prayers for all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Dang RedNeckGeek and Sadamo

Your bring back memories of things I used to work with and on,
glass jar wet cells series wired together to total 144 volts,
then several racks of those paralleled together to feed large ups's that were line interactive.
Shutting down one bank at a time going thru making and breaking all the connections on every individual cell cleaning and greasing.
Checking each cell with the hydrometer, topping off each with distilled water
I hadn't thought about those battery rooms in a long time.
Some of the cells where round but most of them where square glass boxes,
we would even put new lead plates and separator papers in them on some of the shutdown maintenance outages.
Nothing like that rubber apron, and even back then safety goggles,
removing plates and separator papers, rubber dividers and rebuilding the individual cells.

Had a lot of clothes that had numerous little holes all over them,and lots of little blisters at times.

When was all that going on, Lou? Scotty's Castle near Death Valley was running on generators and batteries back in the 30s. The battery room is still there, and full of old rubber bodied batteries, or at least it was before the floods of a few years back. That stuff looked old, but not as old as what you describe?

 

[sodamo]

Good to see friends at Birthday brunch. Abundance of foods.

Sadly, we guys continued our string of Hand & Foot losses.

 

[Eric Salop]

It is a beautiful morning here, perfect for getting on with the water tank cover, however the sight of two sheep wandering up the track reminds me that instead I need to get on with some fence repairs.

Ron, superb pic of Sassy.

RNG, lead acid batteries are a great choice for your application and paying the extra for AGM brings lots of other benefits too, so that should be money well spent. If you can arrange to not deplete the batteries very far before switching back to grid or generator, they should have a very long life. During a wildfire you want to be able to run them right down though, which makes it more of a challenge :confused2:

Metal racking, with each battery sat on an extra sheet of plastic/wood for bonus cushioning and insulation would be my choice too, unless the manufacturer has better advise. The charger may have internal circuitry that detects if a single positive or negative conductor makes contact with ground, in which case the racking can be grounded, possibly best via a simple current limiting resistor. Coating the metal with insulating paint like LouNY mentions would make it even safer.

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Cold 30 degrees here, glad I picked the last of the peppers on Saturday. Going to take them down to food pantry for
last delivery of the year.

finished mowing leaves yesterday and blowing them into woods.

 

[Buppies]

29 high of 58 today some tractor time yesterday

Prayers for all

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning;

31 and going to a high of 39°F. Wind SE 8 mph. A mix of rain and snow for today.

We got another inch or so of snow overnight.
I will go out after daylight and survey my domain and the rest of the driveways I plow, all 3 of them and make a decision on the spot.
Last spring I told the postmaster that I would no longer be plowing out the group box at the end of the road. I did it for 24 years for free and I wasn't doing it anymore. The PO contracted it out last fall. I did not bid.

After I plow I need to go to town and pick up the DILs' script.

That is all that is on my plate for today.


Have a good day all

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 41° with light rain this morning. Heading to 53° with rain ending in morning and cloudy skies in afternoon. Sassy has come out of the closet. But will not go outside beyond the area where I had cleared leaves for warning flags. About the only thing on my list is take wireless fence to UPS.

Eric, sheep on tracks cannot be a good thing.

David & RNG, I enjoy your reports on generators and solar. Just wish they were not so expensive.

LS, we lived in our 300 sq ft motorhome for up to 6 months a year. It was doable. But it was great to get back to 1,800 sq ft and 3 out buildings at end of a trip. Not sure how we would have handled wife's illness in that small area.

Prayers and best wishes to all.

Good Morning All.

 

[LouNY]

When was all that going on, Lou? Scotty's Castle near Death Valley was running on generators and batteries back in the 30s. The battery room is still there, and full of old rubber bodied batteries, or at least it was before the floods of a few years back. That stuff looked old, but not as old as what you describe?

Much of that equipment was from the 50's and I have seen some from the 30's when places had the delco power plants.
It really wasn't that old, specialized industrial plants with early ups's in the northeast in the 70's chemical processing,
then when I went out west mineral processing into the late 70's these were in older plants at the time,
also some of the Bell repeater towers used them into the very late 70's.
A couple of them were using electric motor gen-sets with the batteries paralleled with the power feed to the electric motors.
With the advent of osha they didn't last long.

 

[Thomas]

28F clear frosty upper 40's for high more sun than clouds today.

Outside chores are done E muffin time. :licking:
Have 3 out of 4 game cams left some critter took one,by the looks of the tree and ground was young cub.
Several flocks geese were honking there way south yesterday afternoon.
Plans for today...outside puttering trip to village store and more puttering.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[daugen]

Thomas, sounds like you are enjoying your days off. A slow puttering roll...

made one trip downtown, turns out was too early to stop at drugstore due to time change, will head back down later
school busses out picking up kids on a cold frosty morning. At least they had hoodies on if not coats.

 

[toppop52]

27 this morning, wasn’t ready for that! 40 now headed to 61 later.
Went with my daughter and grandson to visit Lynn’s grave, such a pretty place.


I have an appointment with my insurance guy this morning so I have to get moving, prayers to all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 57F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. High 78F. Winds light and variable.

Probably take a stab at getting the shipping container a bit more level, then have another go at checking/adjusting those generator valves. But first a phone call to a solar power supplier I learned about last week.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That is pretty Randy.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good Morning everyone!!!!!

A clear and sunny 24ºF for today’s low temp; a clear and sunny 37ºF presently; and I anticipate increasing clouds and an afternoon high in the high 40ºF’s. I spoke with my mechanic this AM and he feels it’s probably a hung up brake caliper on the Tundra. I think today will be a good day to fire up the NH and drop the rotary cutter and attach the box blade….. just in case I’ll be moving snow later this week. I’ll spare everyone another round of maps at this point.

RonJH- I am happy to read that Sassy has come out of hiding. She’s really cute.

Randy- Thanks for sharing Lynn’s final resting place. A beautiful spot.

RNG- Good luck with the solar power supplier.

I hope that everyone has a decent Monday.

My + thoughts and prayers.

 

[PJSprog]

41°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 56° today.

Stayed cooler that expected Saturday, so I didn't get much done outside. Did a whole bunch of puttering inside, though. Made a run to Fairview Heights (local shopping mecca) for a few things, stopped at Guitar Center for some new strings for the new guitar and a new set for the classical guitar, picked up lunch for the two of us at Noodles & Co., then home the rest of the day.

It got up in the mid-50s on Sunday, so I got some outside items checked off the honey-do list. Removed the old, rusted mailbox, and replaced it with a newer, bigger one. Then, got the new address post The Wife made a few weeks ago out of the garage and concreted into its new home at the end of the driveway.



Never did get out to mow the pasture one last time. Maybe next weekend.

Happy (belated) birthday to your bride, Thomas.

My Wife always liked the French onion soup at Panera (still called St. Louis Bread Co around here) as well, Mostly. I've always preferred their broccoli cheddar soup. I almost always ate their Sierra turkey sandwich. However, they took it off the menu about a year or so ago, but still had it available on the "secret" menu. Last time I was there, they didn't have it at all anymore.

Good luck with the new battery arrangement, David. Will there be any heat issues with them stacked over each other?

 

[hawkeye08]

RNG - your talk about solar companies disappearing reminds me of a project our local church undertook. We partnered with a church in Cambodia to put solar panels on roof to provide power for computers and sewing machines. Teach and train young people so they have means of income and avoid *** traffic. They had the project all figured out, and were in the funding phase getting the needed money raised. While that was going on, the solar company went under, so they had to start over with the solar.. Good news, it worked out better in the end. A better system for less money. Team traveled to Cambodia and did the install. Great results.

I holding out hope that you too will get better results.

Stay safe and prayers for those in need.

 

[sodamo]

71°F and no rain.

Back to busy. Need to get my erector set battery bracket together and painted.
Installer will be calling today to discuss and set schedule.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day