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Old 08-20-2020, 08:36 PM   #11
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I wasnt knock your batteries you have done well with them (unless exide made them for duracell). I am speaking from my experience with sams club 8 volt Duracell batteries . i had two set over the years (helped when you can get them tax free) and never got better then 4 yrs out of them. the set I have now are trojan 875 and in oct they will be 5 yrs old and still going strong .
I knew you weren't.

I was just using your post as a segue to allow me to brag some as well as post the chart and map.
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Old 08-20-2020, 08:48 PM   #12
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You mention “rotten egg smell”. Check each cell with hydrometer. I only say this because in the past, few times I smelled that odor it usually let to a bad,weak cell in a battery. Might be worth checking. At worse will help tell health of battery condition.
FYI was always taught to never remove charger from batteries until charging cycle is completed. Doing so can cause batteries to not properly Charge and balance.

My previous 6 year plus Trojans used to need water every 3 charges.
My 1 year old US batteries have needed water maybe 4 times.

Johnnie B nice chart. Thanks😊
US Battery recommends "Opportunity Charging", or in other words, doing a partial charge whenever the opportunity presents itself. The attached .jpg file is the first couple of paragraphs and the .pdf file is the complete charging recommendations download.
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Old 08-21-2020, 03:16 AM   #13
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I wasnt knock your batteries you have done well with them (unless exide made them for duracell). I am speaking from my experience with sams club 8 volt Duracell batteries . i had two set over the years (helped when you can get them tax free) and never got better then 4 yrs out of them. the set I have now are trojan 875 and in oct they will be 5 yrs old and still going strong .
Whoa, whoa. This is the first time I've heard in years that a cheaper battery might not be quite as good as a "big name brand in the deep-red colored box". The pitch is usually "get the highest AH available, regardless of the brand, and everyone just loves the results".(making sure you read the specs is critical if you think your getting "the good deal"). I'm not saying I dont understand that a small group of few manufacturers make all the batteries (because I understand that). If you buy the "super deal $79.99 each" batteries, check the specs, and know you are almost always getting the "low end ones". We once offered some cheap korean "black box" batteries that had "all the good specs". They actually turned out to be really great batteries, "meets & exceeds the rated specs", and almost all lasted the 5-year "expected life" just fine. But, dang, the messiest, juicy batteries I ever seen, nasty corrosion monsters. I really appreciated how good they were for "meets & exceeds expectations". But, the messy corrosion monsters. Even worse than US (and their "cheap box versions", US batteries are the "messiest" of the top-grade batteries, in my opinion).
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