<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Conrad,<div><br></div><div>1. Not usually a good idea to EQ sealed small batteries. This will hasten their death.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Best bet at this point is charge them individually or at least parallel at 12v</div><div><br></div><div>3. If possible put them on a long long charge to see if they actually charge up.</div><div><br></div><div>4. what are the charge set points, I'll guess factory set points of 57.6v?</div><div><br></div><div>5. if the above is correct ( too high) with the too low of generator start, the batteries are mostly scrap at this point,</div><div><br></div><div>jay</div><div>peltz power</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 29, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Conrad Geyser wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City">
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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">In the vein of us on grid folks who’s
heads spin when the off grid folks start talking about charge programming and
gen set start up parameters…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I am servicing an orphaned 48 V off grid
system that is only 1 1/2 years old, with 40 Concorde Sun Extender batteries,
which are for the most part, shot (about half of them under 10V after a generator
EQ charge). I’m sure the batteries have been abused at least after
the point that someone lowered the generator start voltage to 40V. We’re
still doing fact finding on the charge parameters for the PV and wind, but I’m
wondering if there is anyone that has an opinion on the Concorde batteries.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">And at least at this point, I’m glad
I had to study for some off grid questions on the NABCEP test, not to mention
the conversations on this list. : ><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Conrad<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><st1:personname w:st="on"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Cotuit
Solar</span></font></st1:personname><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
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