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Electric vehicle batteries 3211 1
equipment, fire and security systems, communications 32.5 Load levelling batteries
equipment, photographic equipment, portable power
tools, computer rnemory systems, portable televisions, Southern California Edison in 1988 installed a load
levelling battery comprising 8256 standard traction-
hand lamps, propelled toys, power packs, invalid motive power cells each of 3250Ah capacity. This
carriages, intrudler and fire alarm systems, medical
instrumentation, emergency lighting, uninterrupted 40 MW h 2000 V battery was the lowest cost option
for storage load management for duties of 1 hour,
power supply, lawn mowers, portable lighting,
cordless appliances, toys, cellula phones, consumer engines taking Over for to hours. Load
elec&onics and instrumentation. The batteries feature management needs long life (lo year) batteries with
lead-calcium alloy grids for achieving long and good (2000 cycies).
reliable service and also a suspended electrolyte 32.6 Electric vehicle batteries
system. These batteries are available in capacities
between 5 and 51D Ah. These are discussed in Section 43.