From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Issues with battery/cell evaporation, venting, and external corrosion.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\L\2April1924-June1924\ Scan78 | |
| Date | 15th May 1924 | |
| Contd. -7- EFC1/T15.5.24. (1) Rapid evaporation of solution, resulting in the necessity for frequent topping up. (2) The problem of providing a satisfactory vent, because it is necessary that this be a non-return vent because it must shut up when not working, otherwise the air oxidises the solution and a loss of capacity results. (3) Whilst not suffering from internal corrosion, there is liability of external corrosion of the cell cases, which are of steel, and to a certain extent of the connecting links. This applies more particularly to the earlier construction. Probably a good deal of this external cell case corrosion has been eliminated in the construction of these later batteries of orthodox chassis shape. EFC. | ||