PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-566
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 566
JANUARY 2000
PS 566
61
JAN 00
PS 566
60
JAN 00
So put battery
terminal covers,
NSN 5999-01-
382-8223, on
your generator
batteries right
now.
Do it safely.
Remember, the battery is live even
when the generator is shut down.
Disconnect the negative lead first.
That’s the one that runs to the ground.
15-KW TQG . . .
Then disconnect the interconnecting
cable between the two batteries.
Now remove the positive lead.
While you’re there, check the bat-
tery case for corrosion and damage.
Check the cables and battery caps for
breaks.
Wear gloves to do the inspection.
Battery acid can burn your skin.
Clean and repair as needed follow-
ing the good words in TM 9-6115-643-
24.
Now put the terminal covers on and
reconnect the battery—positive lead,
interconnecting cable, and then nega-
tive lead.
Negative lead is removed
first and connected last
ing bracket,
1
/
4
inch from the end
Insert the fingers of the mounting
bracket through the slots on the cover.
Insert a cotter pin through each hole
and spread it apart.
Put the mounting bracket back on
the generator.
no
terminal
covers?! how
shocking!
-glub-glub-
would somebody
please
replace
my
exhaust cover
!
Negative lead
Cotter pins hold cover
Tactical Quiet Generators . . .
Use terminal covers
uiz time. What is the purpose of
battery terminal covers?
Don’t know?
That’s not surprising, because far too
many 15-KW tactical quiet generators
have uncovered battery terminals.
If you knew, they’d be covered!
The main reason for terminal
covers is to prevent metal objects
from touching the battery posts.
When metal touches either or
both posts plus some other metal,
at the least sparks will fly. At the
worst,
you
could fly—backwards,
that is, after a nasty shock.
Think the odds of that happen-
ing are small? Maybe so, but the
generator’s design greatly increases
them. There’s very little clearance be-
tween the metal door to the battery
compartment and the negative termi-
nal of the first battery.
Clearance is tight in battery compartment
actical quiet generators (TQG)
without exhaust covers are a sad sight
in the motor pool. Without a cover, the
exhaust system is open to whatever
Mother Nature brings—rain or snow.
Both mean corrosion in the system.
The covers go missing because their
edges catch on camouflage netting and
get pulled off, or they blow off going
down the road. There is nothing to se-
cure the cover to its hinge.
Here’s how to make sure the cover
stays on:
Remove the cover and its mounting
bracket (hinge). Drill a
1
/
8
-in hole in
the center of each finger on the mount.
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