Re: Old Wet Cell Battery

Posted by Haas on October 16, 2004 at 17:55:05 from (12.66.26.236):

In Reply to: Old Wet Cell Battery posted by IrishRover on October 15, 2004 at 16:58:50:

I'm assuming this is a glass jar. As others said, used with stationary DC plants before folks got AC electricity through the power lines. On the farm where I grew up, there was an "engine house" out back. Never in use while I was around, but was used up until 1939 when my folks got electricity from the REA. The engine house housed a generator set to charge a bank of the glass jar batteries. I think the generator set was probably a hit/miss engine DC generator although it was gone before I can remember. There were however a bunch of the glass jars still there, along with the internal lead plates for the wet cells. All that lead laying around today would cause a major flap I think, but no one was concernec about that back in 1945. Don't know what ever happened to it. May still be there buried in the soil where the engine house was. As a kid, I recall also that the 32 volt DC electrical wiring was still in the attic of the house. It consisted of wire strung on porcelain insulators in the attic. As an added note, the back part of the engine house was a room heavily insulated with thick walls filled with sawdust. In the winter ice was cut off the ponds and stored there for use the rest of the year. Life was a lot different then!!

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