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\nIf you have a home battery installed in a garage, carport or driveway, chances are it will be behind a bollard. While Australian regulatory standards call for “protection”, here’s some better ways to abide by the rules.<\/p>\n

How Do You Protect A Battery?<\/h2>\n

Although bollards are a popular option, they usually aren’t installed in a way that offers meaningful protection. Better options include installing the battery in an elevated position, or using alternative solutions such as wheel stops. Installing a battery outside the garage is another alternative, but in this case a kiosk is advisable to protect it from weather.<\/p>\n

The Evidence Is Everywhere<\/h2>\n

A good carpenter I know sometimes comes out with an unforgettable pearl of wisdom1<\/a><\/sup> and it’s one which always comes to mind when I see a home battery installed in a garage is this:<\/p>\n

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You can paint that as yellow as you like,<\/h3>\n

they’re still gunna hit it.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’d dead right of course. You see the evidence everywhere: supermarkets, train stations, in front of the convenience shop door. These silent sentinels often stand crooked, with scratches in the paint and scars where the candy stripe tape has failed to catch enough attention.<\/p>\n

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Just look at these magnificent bastards… replete with black tyre marks.<\/p><\/div>\n

I think my favourites are a set supposed to stop road trains going down the drain.<\/p>\n

A highway petrol station I once frequented kept installing ever-stronger bollards, as they kept failing to do their job. Over the years these obstacles grew bigger and were buried deeper, until finally, steel-cased, concrete-filled, half a metre in diameter and 1.5metres tall, they could withstand the errant truck attacks that uprooted their predecessors.<\/p>\n

Bollards will protect things if they’re built right, but the bulls#!t bought at hammerbarn are bollocks for batteries.<\/p>\n

When parking the car, a bolt down post isn’t going to help if you stab the wrong pedal or select the wrong gear, and they’re not mentioned in Australian Standard 5139 in any case.<\/p>\n

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I’ve heard some shocking abuse directed at a solar inverter and battery that refuses to connect to WiFi – they seem immune to verbal attacks though.<\/p><\/div>\n

Cheap Bollards Can Be Worse Than Nothing<\/h2>\n

Under Australian Design Rules (ADRs), your car must avoid damaging squishy persons. Mirrors fold up, bumpers are filled with styrofoam, even bull bars – designed to fend off the wildlife – aren’t allowed to have sharp edges to puncture pedestrians.<\/p>\n

The ADRs go to great lengths mandating that cars deform, absorb energy and soften impacts when they hit something.<\/p>\n

A bollard concentrates the broad impact of a car into a single point. It might not be sharp, but like a jousting stick<\/a> it’s certainly more likely to puncture a battery cell.<\/p>\n

Light Duty Protection<\/h2>\n

Unless you have a 100mm-plus hole cored through the concrete floor to accept a heavy wall steel pipe, you’re not taking the matter seriously.<\/p>\n

Whether they use masonry bolts or screws into plastic plugs, bolt-down bollards aren’t<\/em> heavy duty. In fact I’ve seen many fixed to pavers, they’re just adorable.<\/p>\n

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Given that nice big lever, I reckon I could reef those pavers out with my bare hands. The warning labels are a pragmatic approach though as they shouldn’t<\/em> be stuck on the equipment.<\/p><\/div>\n

A lightweight bollard may prevent you smashing the glass fascia on your Tesla Powerwall 3 when you fling 50kg of car door at it, but it’s not going to help when faced with 2 tonnes of car, unless perhaps it’s at a literal snails pace, but there are better fixes for a slow-rolling vehicle.<\/p>\n

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Like the four screws holding the yellow post up, those stickers aren’t protecting anything. They shouldn’t be on the equipment and the green one belongs on a lead acid battery.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Best Solution Requires Heavy Lifting<\/h2>\n

Getting batteries up and out of the way is probably the best option, but being grotesquely heavy means they’re sometimes difficult to mount and probably an OH&S liability for installers.<\/p>\n

I know some are taking a small trolley-style crane with them to make this process easier.<\/p>\n

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A no-bollocks solution from iStore and Solargain Adelaide.<\/p><\/div>\n

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You can make almost anything with unistrut<\/p><\/div>\n

Alternatives like unistrut support hundreds of kilos with brackets designed for air conditioning units. A cross bar and two floor struts would make this wood rack above into an inexpensive battery cage.<\/p>\n

For a real grand design, we can’t go past this bespoke cage delivered by Eddy and the team from NRG Adelaide.<\/a> By strutting this frame to the wall it becomes a really solid solution.<\/p>\n

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You could do this with some pallet racking, unistrut or Downee clamps<\/a> for a more universal approach I’m sure.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wheel Stops Are An Alternative<\/h2>\n
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I love Jolt and their first 7kWh for free deal, it’s half a tank full in a modest EV.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

I chuckled at this EV charging station protection setup pictured above recently, but it raises a few good points.<\/p>\n

Really expensive hardware in a public setting usually has bulletproof, industrial-grade protection, however the hierarchy here is a rubber wheel stop, concrete kerb and some decorative bollards, perhaps to trigger your parking sensors?<\/p>\n

The one disappointing part is the question of how you’d access this in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n

Solar installers have taken the same approach, like this beautiful example of a wheel stop from Skyline Solar<\/a> below. Perhaps the only drawback being a potential trip hazard.<\/p>\n

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An automatic car, idling in gear, won’t climb a wheel stop like this.<\/p><\/div>\n

The other off-the-shelf solution available is a cage. These were commonly used for inverters but changes to standards<\/a> mean they’re only used for theft prevention now.<\/p>\n

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Rules used to dictate cages for inverters over 600VDC.<\/p><\/div>\n

Going Gardening<\/h2>\n

I still think a garage is a good place to keep a battery for 10 years, just like it is for your car, which also houses a battery.<\/p>\n

But if you’d prefer to keep the perceived (but very low) fire risk away from your house, a dedicated kiosk outside might be the answer.<\/p>\n

If you have the space and budget, it might save damage wrought by garden tools and great piles of garage goods.<\/p>\n

We used to build gas tight ventilated enclosures for lead acid batteries used in remote area power. Putting an angled top on the box kept the space clean, so they could be accessed if need be.<\/p>\n

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Building a kiosk in the garden isn’t a silly idea but I’d still put a 2mm thick steel skirt around this to meet WSX2 level mechanical protection. Something that will withstand a brush cutter with a solid blade.<\/p><\/div>\n

While lots of equipment has a degree of weatherproofing, keeping things out of the weather really is still essential. This LG example below was used to replace a sadly defunct Redflow battery, which had it’s own little shed<\/a> built around it.<\/p>\n

The first LGChem failed under warranty but hopefully the backboard and angled rain shed will help the new unit.<\/p>\n

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The battery on the right was only a couple of years old, but once moisture got under the powdercoat finish, corrosion really got going.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Right Answer Depends On Your Home<\/h2>\n

We’ve written previously about where you’re allowed to put batteries<\/a> under restrictive Australian rules. Just bear in mind that what you need for your place may be unique, so a site visit before installation day can save a lot of heartache.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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