Rail Transit Vehicle Interface Standards Committee

IEEE std. P 1568

Recommended Practice for Electrical
Sizing of Nickel-Cadmium Batteries
for Rail Passenger Vehicles

WG-13

Meeting 6

 

Place: Amtrak

Wilmington, DE

Date: September 05, 2001.

 

Attendees: Ted Mavronicolas

Vince Young

Alex Sinyak

Sachit Kakkar

Dick Bruss

Rich Niederberger

Norm Vutz

Tammy Krause

 

The meeting started with the review of comments made by the IEEE and comments made by other working group members. All comments were discussed and the draft was revised.

The working group finished line by line review of draft standard.

The working group came to consensus on the final text of the standard, except for the second paragraph of the Clause 6. Determining battery size.

The second paragraph deals with the recommendation for the paralleling of the battery cells. Alex Sinyak and two battery suppliers that could not agree at the meeting on the wording acceptable to both of them will continue to resolve this issue and make the draft ready to be presented to the IEEE full committee meeting for line by line review on September 18th and 19th.