<html><head><base href="x-msg://78/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">HI Carl,<div><br></div><div>I would first contact Exide, and find out what they recommend.</div><div>Just so many choices on what to do, but hate to blow it with these batteries.</div><div><br></div><div>jay</div><div><br></div><div>peltz power</div><div> <br><div><div>On May 1, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Carl Emerson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="blue"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; ">Hi there,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; ">I just shipped a largish bank of Exide<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font>BMPE19<font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: blue; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>flooded batteries to the Islands.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; ">On unloading, a pallet split and several cells lost electrolyte.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; ">8 out of the 48 - 2V cells lost about 1/3 of their acid.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; ">The question is would it be safe to even out the acid in the whole 48 cells and then top up with distilled water?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; 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