Deck 5: Battery Systems

Question 1

What battery uses a high specific gravity electrolyte with a large electrolyte capacity?

A) Lead Acid/Antimony
B) Lead Acid/Calcium
C) Lead Acid/Calcium, Maintenance free Gelled Electrolyte, Sealed
D) Lead Acid/Calcium, Maintenance free Liquid Electrolyte

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Primary cells are used for storage batteries.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A lead acid battery changes its chemical properties in different states.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is the behavior of the Nickel Cadmium, Pocket Plate Liquid Electrolyte battery at elevated temperatures?

Question 5

No one knows when the first battery was invented.

Question 6

What did the original voltaic pile consist of?

Question 7

Benjamin Franklin, in 1748, strung together several Leyden jars as ____ and called the array a "Battery".

A) inverters
B) transformers
C) capacitors
D) resistors

Question 8

The parallel circuit is used to increase the circuit ____.

A) current
B) voltage
C) resistance
D) density

Question 9

What types of batteries exist?

Question 10

What battery is most used in backup systems in the United States?

A) Lead Acid/Antimony
B) Lead Acid/Calcium
C) Lead Acid/Plante'
D) Lead Acid/Calcium, Maintenance free Liquid Electrolyte

Question 11

A battery is typically rated in ohms.

Question 12

What is the primary purpose of a series circuit in a battery system?

Question 13

John Daniell did experiments in an attempt to improve the voltaic battery.

Question 14

What battery can be used in an office environment or in a unventilated room?

A) Lead Acid/Antimony
B) Lead Acid/Calcium
C) Lead Acid/Calcium, Maintenance free Gelled Electrolyte, Sealed
D) Lead Acid (Special Alloy), Suspended Electrolyte, Maintenance free, Sealed

Question 15

A cell consists of a negative electrode (anode); an electrolyte, which conducts ions and a positive electrode (____).

A) code
B) cathode
C) mode
D) manode

Question 16

NEC 690.14 (C-2) requires that each disconnecting means in a photovoltaic system shall be permanently marked to identify it as a ____.

A) photovoltaic disconnect
B) photovoltaic ground fault
C) photovoltaic circuit
D) photovoltaic circuit breaker

Question 17

The ratio of the weight of a given volume electrolyte to an equal volume of water is known as ____.

A) concentration
B) specific density
C) specific gravity
D) strength

Question 18

What battery is selected where frequent discharging is expected?

A) Lead Acid/Plante'
B) Lead Acid/Calcium
C) Lead Acid/Calcium, Maintenance free Liquid Electrolyte
D) Lead Acid/Antimony

Question 19

In 1836 John Daniell invented a primary cell in which ____ was eliminated in the generation of electricity.

A) oxygen
B) nitrogen
C) carbon
D) hydrogen

Question 20

List the two types of charge controllers.