Congrats Chris, this post reminds me that you are one of the proud, the few, the flooded Nicad Users!  
My workhorse E14 is still using 30 of the bb600 cells I acquired in 2004, which were decade-old military surplus a the time.
Have you found a good solution to the KOH misting beyond regular cell washing?  I tried the battery bags sold by Jim, but vibrations seemed to wear holes in the bottom of the bags and the mist got around anyway, so I just wound up with a sloppy mess that dissolved the POR-15 I had laboriously applied.  Where it didn't dissolve, it just peeled off in sheets!  

I want to continue using Nicads until their end of life.  So far, all my dead soldiers have been due to inter-cell shorts when I didn't wash the electrolyte off soon enough.  Otherwise, keep 'em watered and these things refuse to die!

Cheers, 
Jay Donnaway

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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:02:38 -0500
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Spent the morning working on the mower deck, as I mentioned earlier one
of the mounts had ripped out. I bought some 1 inch wide by 1/8 thick
steel plate and after measuring it against the deck, cutting it with the
cutting disc tool, then drilling out the holes I mounted it with bolts
to smash the deck back into shape. Next week I'll snug them down the
rest of the way and weld it to the deck.

With that out of the way I was able to get going and vacuum leaves. I
can fill a 300 gallon bag on a charge now with all of the batteries set
to 30 cells, and things seem to be working properly. Now charging at
about 750 watts, which isn't bad.

C




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