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Unread 02-04-2013, 13:41
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Re: Battery failures?

We haven't had any batteries fail this year. Usually though, they can fail due to multitudes of different reasons. Carrying the battery via the cable, dropping, or accidental shortage (my personal method of killing a battery one year).

Using the battery beak is one way to prevent issues. Usually a battery that is going to die shows signs ahead of time. But nothing trumps good battery safety and care.

Also, we've been using a pair of the triple bank battery chargers for two years now. Only issue is that someone blew out one of the banks, so we have 5 batteries charging instead of 6.
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