Ron Rosenfeld said:
Wayne,
Have you used these?
My initial impression, looking only at the manual, is that while it might
be useful for one or two readings; to perform 48 consecutive readings would
be more difficult than using the "old-fashioned" float-style device. It
seems like it would take longer to clean between checking each cell.
Also, I wonder how accurately one can read that scale.
-- ron (off the grid in Downeast Maine)
Most of the Telco Guys have gone to Internal Resitance Testing for
Battery System Certifacation. they now have portable IRT's that have
little builtin printers that give the Internal resitance for each cell
in the bank, as it is tested. When these are compared to the Original
Installation Printouts, it really gives you a very good idea of the
condition of the Battery System, as a whole and at the cell level.
When our LongLines Guy comes out every six months to do routines on the
Microwave Gear, and battery system, I usually get to run my Inverter
Banks and Radioroom batteries. I have records going back 4 or 5 years
now, on both my Absolyte II, and L16 Banks.
Bruce in alaska