Junk Forklift Battery For Off Grid Solar Experiments
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I found an old heavily used forklift battery on craigslist that I picked up to experiment with. This is not the new battery I will be using for the tiny house on wheels. This is a junk forklift battery I got for experimenting with. I plan to attempt to restore this old forklift battery and put it into service on the off grid solar homestead. Picking up the forklift battery took half the day so I did not get a lot of video this day. This is a 36 volt 2000 pound battery pack rated at about 680 Amp Hours. This means that it has 18 two volt cells at 680 AH each. Each cell weighs about 100 pounds. My hope is to disassemble this old battery pack and remove the individual cells. I hope to take the best of all the cells and form 12 volt battery banks at 680 AH each. This will all be done in a separate video series. I have had trouble with my water supply freezing during the colder nights so I finally cut off the garden hose with the redneck electrical tape fix. I had used electrical tape to tape on a garden hose to the valve of the 275 gallon tote which holds my off grid rain water supply. This worked all summer without a single drop of water lost. I am quite pleased with the results. But now I need a water supply for my off grid homestead and I had to cut off the tape and remove the garden hose so I have access to the rain water. Some packages arrived in the mail. One of the packages contained some items I plan to give away to my viewers in the new year. I will have a survival gear give away soon after the holidays so I am gathering some nice survival gear to give away. Follow my daily progress on the path to self sufficiency on my off grid solar homestead. https://www.youtube.com/user/techman2015/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=10&sort=dd Please donate to help keep The Off Grid Project ™ going: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3TQSWXLLRZ6HW Join The Off Grid Project ™ and The Do It Yourself World ™ forum and share your ideas, tips and projects. http://www.thediyworld.com/forum The Off Grid Project ™ is presented by The Do It Yourself World ™. http://www.TheDIYworld.com
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ahhh, poor babycat, all she wants to do is get some rubbin
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You need to stick with your subject when explaining. You are all over the place while you should just explain about your battery you got.
The heck, you continued talking about your battery, halfway into your video.
Well, I stopped watching this video and fast forward it just to see where you would actually continue to talk about the battery again.
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I bought a pulsetech desulfator. About 37 bucks on amazon. Not Sure if it could fix something that large but it might be able too. Says it can do 3 parallels. Put some epson salts and you might be able to get it back up as long as its not ruined completely.
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What a huuuge battery. That forklift must be a monster?
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Baby Cat may be ornery because of cabin fever. She might want a nice sunny day to free range with the chickens.
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Are you going to try and recondition that fork lift battery?, or is it beyond reconditioning?, It would be great if so, and you could make it work for you. I have used big container's like that, and im not sure what size that is, but take's a special hose that clamp's onto that, maybe 3'' not sure, but the end of the hose has a metal ring with two pull back type locking pin's, one on each side. I still think you should put it in the ground and pump from the top =) I dont see a big enough tree, for a come along to get tha battery out of your truck. =P
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Good to see you back to working on the solar ,and Merry Christmas
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I really hope we get a call one day to scrap one of those.
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TROY HOW ARE YOU GONA REPLACE THE WATER YOU USE IN THOSE WATER CELLS IF YOU TAKE THEM INTO THE HOUSE???? THAT REALLY HAS ME PUZZLED... I CAN KINDA SEE HOW YOUR GONA USE THE WATER CELLS AS FOR WATER IN THE HOUSE BUT HOW ARE YOU GONA FILL THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN??? OOOO AND YOU CAN GET A FAST CLIP ON TYPE OF CONNECTION FOR YOUR BIG TANK... THERE ARE SOME OUT THERE THAT DO NOT LEEK SO MAKE SURE YOU GET THE GOOD ONES..
WE HAD A TANK LIKE THAT ONCE AND IT HAD A FAST CLIP CONNECTION ON IT... IT WAS A LITTLE PRICEY BUT HAY WHEN YOU NEED SOMETHING NOT SCREW ON [THAT TAKES LONGER] SO YOU CAN GET TO YOUR WATER IN A HURRY.... + YOU DONT HAVE TO LEAVE ANY CONNECTIONS ON THE TANK SO IT DONT FREEZE...
NOTHER THING; IF YOUR GONA USE BATTERIES LIKE THE ONE YOU JUST SHOWED; WHERE ARE YOU GONA STORE THAT BAHEMITH AND HOW YOU GONA KEEP IT FROM FREEZIN...??????
BLESSINGS & BE HOPE FILLED
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the battery is probably still good companies get rid of batteries after a while even if there still good so they can always good batteries on hand
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Troy, I'm so happy for you to get those batteries. Its indeed the best way to go for now (drool) Merry Christmas!
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How will you get the forklift battery's into the tiny house on wheels
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cool hope it serves you well and merry christmas
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Glad you like it. It's illegal. I have hazmat endorsement on my CDL. I know what I'm talking about.
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Clean the cases with a battery cleaner. It is possible to lose charge though the casing of the battery if not cleaned properly. Water isn't good enough to clean properly. Get your meter put one lead on the positive post then put the other on the case. All around the top! If you get any type of reading clean the case again.
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I bought that J5 tatical flashlight.. It's not bad for the 12$ i spent on it but they double charged me and sent me 2 when i only ordered one and one works half the time and when it does work it isnt very good. it flickers a lot and they blow threw batteries... first like 20-30 min the light is VERY bright.. looking at it makes you almost blind for like an hour.. but after that they go from probably 300 lums to like 150ish lums. Im only using energizer batteries though nothing special.
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How Will you get the batterys out of your truck
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Need to get hazmat sticker off water tank.
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That forklift battery is going to be a fun one to play with. Merry Christmas!
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Get that forklift battery bank in good shape and you should have some serious power. Baby Cat is just hugging the Viewers. Merry Christmas Baby Cat and the Off Grid Project.
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