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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-TF
Tag No:NULL
Acquisition Date:0000-00-00
Project:NULL
Location on 2023-11-13:Tonzi, NULL
Notes: Battery bank for the Tonzi Floor solar system

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History

Rec No.DateLoc FromTitleLoc ToNotes
6477 2023-11-13 Tonzi Battery Bank Floor Upgrade Tonzi Battery Bank Floor We removed four flooded batteries that came from the Tower. Two are probably still good. The other two seemed to be internally shorted. Four new group 27 AGM batteries were installed.
5958 2022-08-25 Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank The four existing batteries have been dying as soon as it gets dark. These were replaced with the four good batteries from the Tower installed in a new action packer box. The solar panel wiring was also checked but no issues found. Three of the old batteries tested okay and were moved to the Soil CO2 system. The one old battery that tested weak with the load tester was returned for its lead.
5943 2022-08-05 Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank This bank has been failing in the early morning. I disconnected all the batteries and they load tested okay. I added three gallons of DI to the four batteries. I shouted the south most to wiring them back up but they seemed okay.
5352 2021-06-24 Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Maintenance Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Added about 1.5 gallons of DI to the four batteries in total. No plates exposed.
3817 2018-12-13 Tonzi-Floor Upgrade Tonzi-Floor Nine old G27 flooded batteries, a mixture of ages, were removed.
Most tested bad. Two tested ok at first but weak later. They were replaced by four G31 flooded batteries wired in pairs for a 24V system. The panels and tower ends were also modified for 24V.
3796 2018-10-29 Tonzi-Floor Maintenance Tonzi-Floor One of the batteries in the battery bank seems to have an internal short and was sapping power. The bad battery was removed. Power started to be bad on October 20.
2933 2017-07-12 Tonzi-Floor Maintenance Tonzi-Floor The six batteries at the Floor site tested good. I added four batteries from the Tower BB that still tested good.
2813 2017-06-01 Tonzi-Floor Maintenance Tonzi-Floor I disconnected all seven batteries and load tested them. Three were very weak, two dipped a little under load but still in the green and two were rock solid. I replaced the three weak ones and the two that dipped under load with four batteries we brought from the old Twitchell Rice solar system.
2318 2016-06-16 Tonzi-Floor Upgrade Tonzi-Floor Set aside on battery that exploded. Other three tested okay. Added four more that were last at East End.
2005 2012-02-09 Tonzi-Floor Replaced Tonzi-Floor I swapped out seven batteries with dates from June to December 2007 and replaced them with six new batteries with dates from January to February 2012.
2334 2005-11-30 Tonzi-Floor Maintenance Tonzi-Floor The two auxiliary solar panel were connected to the system for winter.
4930 2003-12-19 Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Upgrade Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Removed four batteries from the floor system and install eoght new Excide NC27 95Ahr batteries. Treated all terminals with antiseize compound. The four batteries removed will be used at Vaira.
4817 2002-01-23 Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Upgrade Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Added two new deep cycle batteries the to existing two batteries
4891 2001-01-03 Lab none Installed Tonzi-Floor Battery Bank Initial installation with four solar panels and three deep cycle batteries.
 
 

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