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Equipment and Calibration

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Equipment Entry

Instrument:Battery Bank
Manufacture:Fabricated
Model No:BB-Fab
Serial No:BB-TT
Tag No:NULL
Acquisition Date:2001-03-11
Project:DOE-TCP
Location on 2022-08-25:Tonzi-Tower, NULL
Notes: Solar power battery bank supporting the tower at Tonzi.

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History

Rec No.DateLoc FromTitleLoc ToNotes
5957 2022-08-25 Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Six new Duracell deep cycle AGM batteries were installed in two new action packers. Four good batteries were moved to the Floor and the rest of the 12 dead batteries turned in for their lead.
5942 2022-08-05 Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank The batteries in this bank are completely dead - not even accepting charge at midday. These batteries were all disconnected and four batteries from the soil co2 system sn BB-TZ_soilco2 were temporarily swapped in.
5481 2021-10-06 Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank I cleaned corrosion off the positive lugs and sprayed them with sealer
5406 2021-07-29 Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank I cleaned the battery terminals, replaced the affected battery cables (positive terminals) and sealed all the connections.
5371 2021-07-13 Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Added 4.5 gallons water in total to the 10 batteries. Corrosion on the positive terminals needs to be further cleaned and sealed.
4723 2020-09-01 Tonzi Maintenance Tonzi none The batteries were bone dry, 8-9 gallons of water into the 12 batteries. 4-5 batteries on the east side of south row got purified water instead of distilled. Two western most batteries tested bad with load tester and were brought in. The rest tested good, were reconnected and powered up.
3096 2017-09-28 Tonzi Upgrade Tonzi The Tonzi Tower battery bank was rewired to be a 24V system for the upgrade of the solar power system.
2932 2017-07-12 Tonzi Maintenance Tonzi I swapped out the eight batteries remaining in the Tower battery bank sn BB-TT and replaced them with twelve new Duracell deep cycle marine group 27 lead acid batteries SLI27MDC from Batteries Plus. It’s still a 12V system pending a major rewiring in the future.
2829 2017-01-17 Tonzi Maintenance Tonzi The Tower has been losing power over night recently. All the batteries were disconnected and tested them with the load tester. Four batteries tested bad. We removed them and reconnected the others.
336 2011-03-11 Tonzi-Tower Replaced Tonzi-Tower I replaced the existing batterys with new Exide deep cycle flooded lead acid batterys from OReilly Auto Parts. Four were manufactured feb 2011, two Jan 2011 and six Sep 2010. Cost was approximately 00.
2332 2005-12-13 Tonzi-Tower Upgrade Tonzi-Tower Six old jell cell batteries that were removed from the Vaira solar system were added to the Tower battery bank.
4897 2003-02-13 Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Upgrade Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Four existing batteries removed for use at Vaira. 12 new batteries from Ione Autoparts installed
4818 2002-01-23 Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Upgrade Tonzi-Tower Battery Bank Added two new deep cycle batteries the to existing two batteries
 
 

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