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New Batteries 2016 & 2018

The old gels lasted about 10 years old, not bad, but time to retire them. Bryan, ever digging for the latest info, found Fireflies, Carbon foam AGM – Group 31. Three instead of the 2 gels. different sizes so not just a battery swap, a rebuild of the battery box/bin. Big job, living on 110 only. (May 2016 while in Bocas Del Toro, Panamá)

Noticed electrolyte build up on 2 of the Fireflies. Bruce of Ocean Planet Energy said it was OK, just keep it clean and they would last the same. But since they are new, he'd send us replacements, don't worry about returning the leaky ones. (March 2016). Wow, that is great service.

Due to our traveling, we had the replacements sent to Jacksonville. They arrived while we were in Vancouver/San Isidro (July 2017). So 2 years later we swapped batteries (March 2018).

Since Bruce did not want the 2 original batteries returned and we did not have room them and they are still fully functioning work-as-good-as-new batteries we gave them to some dear friends. After these 2 batteries sat around for over 3 months before being taken to their new home, they're still 100% charged. How sweet is that?
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  • Fireflies

    Fireflies

    Waiting for install March 2016

  • Old Gels

    Old Gels

    April 2016

  • from Bryan
April 2016

    from Bryan April 2016

  • Organized

    Organized

    May 2016

  • Poitive

    Poitive

    May 2016

  • 99% There

    99% There

    May 2016

  • First noticed this soon after initial delivery in 2016

    First noticed this soon after initial delivery in 2016

    March 2018

  • Cables also corroded

    Cables also corroded

    March 2018

  • removed

    removed

    March 2018

  • One good one remains

    One good one remains

    March 2018

  • Replaced

    Replaced

    March 2018

  • Happy Bryan

    Happy Bryan

    March 2018

  • Now to clean up

    Now to clean up

    March 2018

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