DOD-STD-2134 Base Document:1981

1 Scope
  1.1 Scope
  1.2 Application
  1.3 Classification
2 Referenced documents
3 Definitions
  3.1 Battery, storage
  3.2 Battery circuit
  3.3 Cell, storage battery
  3.4 Current loop
  3.5 Dipole
  3.6 Intercell connectors, storage battery
  3.7 Magnetic moment of a current loop or dipole
  3.8 Parallel compensation
  3.9 Series compensation
  3.10 Stray magenetic field
  3.11 Submarine battery cell notation [(4 x n) + r]
  3.12 Tray, storage battery
4 General requirements
  4.1 Battery tray arrangement and connections
  4.2 Simplicity of battery circuit arrangement
  4.3 Arrangement of battery circuit for minimum magnetic
       moment and minimum magnetic moment separation
  4.4 Arrangement of battery circuit for minimum net magnetic
       moment
  4.5 Positioning of battery connecting bus bars
  4.6 Selection of connecting bus bars
  4.7 External battery circuit connections
  4.8 External battery circuit arrangements
  4.9 Battery arrangement warning plates
5 Detailed requirements
  5.1 Preferred minesweeper storage battery arrangement
  5.2 Bus bar to cable external battery circuit connections
  5.3 Battery starting circuit cable arrangement
  5.4 Submarine storage battery arrangement

Specifies arrangement of storage batteries and their connectors minimizing the stray magnetic field, produced by the current. Relates to minesweeping and submarine applications where a minimum stray magnetic field is required.

This standard covers the arrangement of storage batteries and the arrangement of connections to storage batteries, in a manner that will reduce the stray magnetic field, produced by the current, through the batteries and their associated connections to a minimum.