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Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« on: January 11, 2011, 04:34:26 PM »
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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2011, 04:38:53 PM »
Just for changing AAA cells in my kids' toys?  ElfAndSafetyGoneMad (as we say here)!  B^>

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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2011, 12:31:27 AM »
If that's the protective suit for working on the batteries... I wonder what the protective suit looks like for working under the batteries? ;)
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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2011, 01:52:54 AM »
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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2011, 01:57:39 AM »
LOL did anyone notice the safety glasses at the bottom?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I mean, the hard hat I can halfway see, but the glasses are what I lovingly refer to as 'paranoia'...

And WTF is with the site?

First: The first sentence in the article mentions "working with lasers"

Second, the comments are about some kind of microscope...

I mean, uh... really...?

Granted it is less confusing than when I went trying to wrap my head around "interleaved polyphase buck converters", but still...

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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2011, 07:43:12 AM »
because its popsci and not the manufacture's website?

those suits only protect you against burns.
a gigawatt of heat is a gigawatt of heat....
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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2011, 10:03:27 PM »
Quote from: joestue on January 13, 2011, 07:43:12 AM
because its popsci and not the manufacture's website?

Yep.  It was a PopSci article about stuff you could get from scientific supply companies (like scanning tunneling microscopes, "gene knockout" (standard or gene-of-your-choice custom models) and glow-in-the-dark (engineered-in fluorescence genes from sea life) mice and rats for research, etc.  Freebase cocaine, too (with a LOT of federal paperwork and backordered for half a year or so.)

Saw the suit and thought using it for home power battery maintenance would be a hoot.  Serious overkill (on protection and price).

Of course standing there unscathed in your moonsuit after dropping the wrench on the busbars and having all your interconnects vaporize next to you might be priceless...
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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2011, 10:30:03 PM »
If anyone wants to volunteer their double digit kW battery bank, I'll bring the 1 1/2" wrench to drop, and even buy my own plane ticket. The donor will of course be asked to provide two suits. One for them, one for me.

Oh and I get to record the whole thing in hi-def so the wonderful world of youtube can see what several thousand bucks going up in smoke in less time than it takes for the sucker that wanted to watch but has no suit to yell "OH SH..." looks like.  ;D

He doesn't make it. Anybody want to volunteer a second camera for capturing this moment as well?

Yes, I am a sick puppy. But nobody would ever want it any other way, now would they...

But it would be soooo puuurdy!  :o

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Re: Protective suit for working on batteries. B-)
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2011, 02:49:02 AM »
I have 2kWhs of new battery arriving today, which is going to be immediately very very carefully protected against metal tool incidents.  Thus I'm hoping that the brown-trouser moments will be no more than a cautionary tale rather than a YouBoob hit!

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