<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Steve,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is another similar installation. There is air space on top of and some between the battery. Many of our installations have the AGM batteries completely sealed in a box. 17 years of installing battery systems like this and not one single problem. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Larry Crutcher</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Starlight Solar Power Systems</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">(928) 342-9103</span></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="57962B85-CBF2-44F2-AEBD-E002F72DCE61" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:408111F2-CEBB-410E-8283-05F50C5F152F" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br class=""><div><div class="">On May 10, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Steve Higgins <<a href="mailto:steve@surrette.com" class="">steve@surrette.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Larry, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do you have any pic's of them installed? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That would help a lot in getting an idea of how/why these failed. <br class=""><br class="">I do have two questions for you... <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Were there tie down straps over the tops of the batteries? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where was the temp sensor? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div style="float:left;padding:1px 10px 0 0" class=""><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank" class=""><img src="https://i.imgur.com/uXcqgyz.png" alt="" style="padding:3px 0px 0px 10px;float:left;margin-right:10px;width:98px;height:115px" class=""></a><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:bold;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px" class=""><font color="#bb1a1d" class="">Steve Higgins \u22c5
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