<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>I once had an entire batch come in this way. The molded "+" and "-" was wrong on the battery top but the positive terminal was correctly painted red. </div>
<div>I went ahead and installed 8 of these for a customer. They were shot within 2 or 3 months. </div>
<div>It appeared that they were charged backwards and the plate chemistry did not support this. </div>
<div>Mark</div>
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<div >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: [RE-wrenches] Reversed polarity on S530 battery<BR>From: "Chris @ the Oasis" <INFO@<FONT class=mceItemHiddenSpellWord>OasisMontana</FONT>.com><BR>Date: Sat, November 08, 2008 5:39 pm<BR>To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><BR><BR>Dear folks:<BR><BR>I am installing a new set of sixteen Surrette/Rolls S530 batteries in our<BR>home office system, and very quickly discovered one battery mislabelled--the<BR>polarity is reversed. There were no fireworks thank goodness, but be sure<BR>you test each battery before you assume anything!<BR><BR>Chris Daum<BR>Oasis Montana Inc.<BR>406-777-4309 local line<BR>406-777-0830 fax<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>List sponsored by Home Power magazine<BR><BR>List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org<BR><BR>Options & settings:<BR><a href="http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org" target=_blank mce_href="http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org">http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org</a><BR><BR>List-Archive: <a href="http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org" target=_blank mce_href="http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org">http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org</a><BR><BR>List rules & etiquette:<BR><A href="http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm">www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm</A><BR><BR>Check out participant bios:<BR><A href="http://www.members.re-wrenches.org/" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.members.re-wrenches.org">www.members.re-wrenches.org</A><BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>