Re:(ET) New guy in town...

["T Humphrey" <thumphrey mynra com>]

Ok let me get this straight....

You're recommending VRR batteries over Floodeds...

Who are you, and what did you do with David Roden, where is he? ;-)


Stay Charged!
Hump



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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Roden (Akron OH USA) [mailto:roden ald net] 
>Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:32 PM
>To: Discussion List Electrac tractor
>Subject: RE: (ET) New guy in town...
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>On 10 Feb 2004 at 12:55, Pieter Litchfield wrote:
>
>> Be sure you keep the plastic bags around the
>> batteries to prevent battery acid from eating its way through 
the 
>> boxes too. That seems to be a traditional problem.
>
>When I got my tractor almost 6 years ago, I had a bunch of 12-
volt group 24 
>East Penn gel batteries sitting around gathering dust, so I put 6 
of them, 
>connected in series-parallel, to work in the tractor.  I figured 
they'd do
>for 
>a couple of years.  When people asked about them, I said "they're 
OK, but
>I'd 
>be using golf car batteries if I hadn't had these on hand."
>
>Well, they're still doing great.  I finally managed to discharge 
them to the
>
>"time to quit" stage this winter.  It happened one day with 
temperatures in 
>the 10 deg F range.  I plowed my own driveway and then did my 
neighbor's
>MUCH 
>more sloped driveway for him.  That was the first time they've 
ever run out
>of 
>steam in all these years.
>
>After using them all this time, I've come to the conclusion that 
VRR
>batteries 
>- gel or perhaps AGM - just might be worth the extra money (about 
2.5 to 3 
>times as much), even if I had to buy them especially for the ET.  
I never
>have 
>to water them, and maintenance is just wiping the grime off the 
tops (no 
>acid!) and checking the terminals to make sure they're still 
tight.  And I 
>don't have to worry about the plastic bags or acid eating the 
battery boxes.
>
>If I were getting batteries just for the ET, I'd probably buy GC-
2 size, 6 
>volt VRR batteries, rather than the 12 volters.
>
>
>David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
>1991 Solectria Force 144vac
>1991 Ford Escort Green/EV 128vdc
>1970 GE Elec-trak E15 36vdc
>1974 Avco New Idea 36vdc
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