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Routine treatment report for a car lighting and starting battery, detailing charge and discharge cycles.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 52\4\  Scan051
Date  3rd June 1929
  
X. 4502

ROUTINE TREATMENT OF CAR LIGHTING & STARTING BATTERIES.

Date:- 3-6-29
Battery under treatment:- Ediswan XSB 557-1-2 (221) 6-volt units
Rated capacity :- 90 ampere-hours.
Received charged or uncharged:- uncharged.
X.4502

General remarks :-
(1) Terminals & Connections. Taper Pillar type Burnt up links.
(2) Filling. 1280 SG {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} acid.
(3) Standing. 6 hrs.
(4) First charge:-
Charge given :- 320 ampere hrs.

Date Column:
3-6-29
10-6-29
11-6-29
11-6-29
14-6-29
15-6-29

First Table (First Charge):
Cell No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Density | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | 1280
Voltage | 2.70 | 2.65 | 2.70 | 2.65 | 2.55 | 2.70
+ve to cadmium| 2.40 | 2.40 | 2.45 | 2.40 | 2.35 | 2.40
-ve to cadmium| -.30 | -.35 | -.25 | -.25 | -.20 | -.30

Acid changed after first charge, then continued at 8 amperes for 6 hours

(5) Discharge at 9.0 amperes to 10.5 volts.
Total hours :- 7.5
Ampere hours realised :- 67.5

Second Table (Discharge):
Cell No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Density | 1130 | 1130 | 1130 | 1130 | 1130 | 1130
Voltage | 1.75 | 1.75 | 1.75 | 1.75 | 1.75 | 1.75
+ve to cadmium| 1.95 | 1.95 | 1.95 | 1.95 | 1.95 | 1.95
-ve to cadmium| .20 | .20 | .20 | .20 | .20 | .20
  
  
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).


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