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Original Message:Hugh

I am learning to give these forklift truck cells a good shake several times each day to mix the electrolyte.

Hey Hugh,

I was just wondering about this very topic.  L-16s are designed for rough service, right.  I just got my first job at a site where vehicles can't get in.  It's only about a quarter mile in to the cabin on foot, but bumpy.  If I two-wheel-dolly most of the way and have a couple workers strugle them through the rough parts, can such treatment damage cells.  I can see people dropping them a few inches or so as the sorta drag them through a rough area tor two.

Part of the reason I ask this is that I just had two battery packs in one week fail due to a shorted cell.  In the one case a two year old battery had a shorted cell and it took out the whole pack.  The other was a pack of 16, 8L-16s (Crown) and I think only the one string of four took the big dive down.

These cells were not shorted due to abuse, shorted by sediment build-up, or shorting down the sides (my battery supplier sez he sees batts in industrial settings where the boiling over of the battery deposits a conductive coating to ground on the outside of the battery).

I'm willing to strugle two L-16s into this little cabin system rather than risk a 400% rise in cell failure risk by walking eight trolling motor batts in, one in each hand.  Then again, I've never had a T-105 style 220AH battery fail (same manu) and I typically sell more of them than L-16s.

Thoughts?

Kurt Nelson
Kurt Nelson

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