[RE-wrenches] Concorde Lifeline Battery failures

[cwarfel]

We stopped installing them when they would not honor a warranty issue. 
We felt thattheir warranty was not commensurate with the risk we and our 
customer's faced.


On 1/19/2018 11:59 AM, Starlight Solar Power Systems wrote:
> Drake,
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> We have at least a dozen systems that failed early from lost capacity over the last 2 years with 2-4 year old battery banks. The AGM failures are all Lifeline battery made by Concorde.
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> Lifeline and my distributor both told me I was “the only one” with failures. I dropped Lifeline battery after being a dealer for 16 years and many hundreds of systems installed. Historically we had seen 7-10 years average life from battery banks that we installed. One regular customer is at 12 years and still going. I have a sense of vindication now hearing from others about Concorde capacity issues.
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> Thank you,
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> Larry Crutcher
> Starlight Solar Power Systems
> (928) 342-9103
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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 9:18 AM, Drake <drake.chamberlin at redwoodalliance.org> wrote:
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> A Concorde AGM PVX 3050T recently failed in a bank of 8. Larry mentioned a couple of brands experiencing problems. These batteries are 4 years old and have been kept in float in an off grid system, never stressed. Hopefully Concorde batteries are not going the way of Trojan L-16s. Has anyone else had problems with Concorde?
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Christopher Warfel, PE
Entech Engineering, Inc.
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