Exide keepalite

anallisguy · Jul 20, 2017

Any of you guys ever worked on one of these? Made in the 30's. Have a problem with one right now, hoping to find someone who might know
something about them.
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Den N Ms · Jul 20, 2017

Found this
The emergency
lighting circuit. This circuit is connected to the normal
outside source of power through one side of an automatic,
gravity accelerated switch (which is a part of the Exide-
Keepalite Control Unit; ; connected to the other side of
this switch is an Exide Emergency Lighting Battery.
When the normal supply of power is interrupted the
switch instantaneously "cuts in" the battery ? thus
keeping the emergency circuits supplied with current.

When electric service is restored the emergency light-
ing circuits are automatically transferred from the
battery back to normal power supply and the battery is
automatically charged at a high rate by a mercury bulb
full wave charger until it is fully recharged. In addition,
the new Exide-Keepalite Emergency Lighting Battery
System, through the use of a copper oxide trickle
charger, provides an automatic and low cost means
of maintaining the battery in a fully charged
condition at all times.

guido · Jul 20, 2017

Hello anallisguy,

My guess would be a bad connection or battery. Try this site: www.us.archive.org. Found it to have lots of info. I have a picture of the battery on my phone. But the say 60 cells, I am assuming 120v dc. But the site also says low voltage emergency lighting, and a 120v fully auto charger and a tube as a rectifier,
Guido

Exide keepalite

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