Technical editor Mike McDonagh reports on progress in battery formation time with a prototype formation unit. The team needs to reduce the time by a further 13 minutes.
In June 2024, we made the sub-8-hour flooded SLI battery formation schedule. The time from putting the batteries on charge to completing the charging schedule was 17 minutes shy of eight hours. To be certain of establishing three shifts per day on a given circuit, it is necessary to allow for both loading and unloading the circuit.
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