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Best Practices for Battery Maintenance and Testing
Date: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Location: SRP Information Services Building (ISB), 1600 N Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281
Speaker: Len Holets, Megger
Topic: "Best Practices for Battery Maintenance and Testing"
Batteries are often installed and ignored. As natural disasters demonstrate, battery maintenance cannot be taken for granted. This presentation will cover safe testing methods for battery systems. Aside from the fact that battery chemistry changes over time, you have to have a plan in case of disaster. Run the "what if" scenarios. What if my batteries die after a storm event? What if a tornado strikes and takes out the grid? Do I have backup banks? Do I have maintenance records? We will look at some of these scenarios and you can assess your readiness plan. We will look at some normal battery failure modes without a natural disaster to affect their performance. We will look at positive grid corrosion, plate sulfation, sediment, and dry-out (with VRLA batteries), and how these things can happen: Could this be a pre-cursor to thermal runaway? If you know what to look for and have the right tools, batteries should be easy to maintain.
Speaker Bio:
Len Holets is a Senior Regional Sales Manager at Megger providing consultative sales and application support of power products. Prior to his employment to Megger in 1986, Len served with the US Navy Nuclear Fleet and is a 1980 graduate of US Naval Nuclear Power Engineering School. During Len's 25 year career with Megger, he has worked as an applications engineer and instructor at Multi-amp Institute (now known at AVO Training Institute), inside and outside sales engineer and in 2003 moved into management of sales over the power product line. Megger is a 100+ year old company and is comprised of the companies formally known as AVO International, Metrosonics, Biddle Instruments, Megger Instruments Limited, Multi-Amp Corporation, States company, PAX Diagnostics and Programma. Megger currently manufacturers over 1000 products from its four manufacturing sites and is the largest manufacturer of electrical test and measuring instruments.
