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Larry, <div><br></div><div>Thanks for the pics... </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">AGM's, because they are valve regulated, do need a bit more airflow around them. Remember there isn't the vast amount of electrolyte in a flooded cells AGM's they are starved electrolyte batteries the only electrolyte is what is in the Glass Matting. Has FR seen these pics? If so they may not like the lack of airflow. </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I'd talk with Full River, and ask them to do a tear down on these, they may or may not... See if you can get them to cover if they find a manufacturing defect internally. <br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The tear down should tell them/and you if the temps for some reason just got too hot, or if indeed it was a manufacturing defect that caused them both to swell. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">It'll probably cost you shipping one way, but might be worth it if indeed they find a defect. </div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Starlight Solar Power Systems <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry@starlightsolar.com" target="_blank">larry@starlightsolar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Steve,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><div><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;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class=""><span>Larry Crutcher</span><br><span>Starlight Solar Power Systems</span><br></span><span>(928) 342-9103</span></div></div><br class="m_-2257190849764467957Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="m_-2257190849764467957Apple-interchange-newline"></div><img id="m_-225719084976446795757962B85-CBF2-44F2-AEBD-E002F72DCE61" height="480" width="640" src="cid:408111F2-CEBB-410E-8283-05F50C5F152F"><br class="m_-2257190849764467957Apple-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;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="m_-2257190849764467957Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><span class=""><div>On May 10, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Steve Higgins <<a href="mailto:steve@surrette.com" target="_blank">steve@surrette.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-2257190849764467957Apple-interchange-newline"></span><span class=""><div><div dir="ltr">Larry, <div><br></div><div>Do you have any pic's of them installed? </div><div><br></div><div>That would help a lot in getting an idea of how/why these failed. <br><br>I do have two questions for you... <br><br></div><div>Were there tie down straps over the tops of the batteries? </div><div><br></div><div>Where was the temp sensor? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-2257190849764467957gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div style="float:left;padding:1px 10px 0 0"><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.rollsbattery.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/uXcqgyz.png" alt="" style="padding:3px 0px 0px 10px;float:left;margin-right:10px;width:98px;height:115px"></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"><font color="#bb1a1d">Steve Higgins \u22c5
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