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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.environment
- Subject: Re: opening of the first self-sufficient solar house, Press Release
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.181844.6188@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 18:18:44 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.053900.1471@ke4zv.uucp: <1992Nov12.190010.5512@meteor.wisc.edu> <1992Nov13.011151.12025@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov13.011151.12025@en.ecn.purdue.edu: ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble) writes:
- :How about a large bank of Nickel-iron batteries instead. Nothing toxic,
- :and they don't self-destruct (sulphate out), if discharged too far.
- :Some Nickel Irons are still running at windpower sites from the '30s.
- :Let a Lead-Acid discharge, and set dead for a few days, and it is history.
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- Your a bit premature. I've personally rehabilitated almost a dozen lead
- acid batteries, mostly gell cell type. One beauty came from a discarded
- recorder (I presume something in a trash dumpster is discarded). For the
- first week it was almost an open circuit, about 3 mA with 45 volts going
- into a 12 volt battery (The ps was current limited to 10 mA in that config).
- Second week she recovered, taking 10, 50, 100 mA, then it shot up to 1.4 A,
- my ps maxes out at 1.5A. Charged it up and it worked like new for a couple
- years, although I lost it, somewhere, when I moved.
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- Kenneth Ng
- Please reply to ken@eies2.njit.edu for now.
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