L-16 charging voltages [RE-wrenches]

[Matt Tritt]

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On the other hand, all of my Why two K customers (except one) are still 
doing fine with their L-16's. The one exception being a guy with a huge 
bank (1,400 ah) who didn't want a maintenance agreement and never 
checked his batteries. They eventually just boiled dry from neglect. An 
auto-waterer would have saved this from happening, but I couldn't talk 
him into that either. :(

Matt T


William Miller wrote:

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> Yet, at some point, all of my Y2K customers with L-16s found them dry 
> and ruined.  All of my Y2k GEL/AGM customers are still using the 
> original batteries.  It can't be that all of them failed to check.  I 
> think the water consumption was stable to a point and then increased 
> suddenly.
>
> William
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> At 09:26 AM 5/21/2005, you wrote:
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>> While they should be checked more frequently, I only add water to my
>> batts perhaps four times a year.  This even with the voltages held
>> higher than factory default settings on the charge controller and
>> occasional EQs approaching 16/32 volts.  I think there is way too much
>> emphasis towards "maintenance free" batteries resulting in added expense
>> and a movement away from the tried and proven.
>>
>> Kurt Nelson
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