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From: Robert E.Seastrom (no email)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2006 - 09:33:59 EDT
writes:
> I left for several hours and came back to the house stinking like burning
> rubber. The new batteries are apparently melting the terminal rubber
> insulation. I had to throw it back into bypass mode and unplug that pack
> (the only one with new batteries!)
By "terminal rubber insulation" do you mean the insulation on the lugs
that bolt to the terminals on the batteries? If so, this is a sign
that you either didn't clean the contacts or didn't bolt them together
firmly. Those batteries need to be initially charged, and they draw a
lot of current when doing that... which heats up any kind of high
resistance connection in the chain.
> Any ideas to the cause? The status screens looked ok. ("no bad batteries"
> again)
By the way, you probably ought to replace all the batteries in all
your packs regardless of what the battery status monitor says.
---Rob
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