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Re: Main Battery Cables

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Originally Posted by maclaren
...because we have to manually check which batteries are charged when people don't label the charged and discharged ones.
I don't understand how you intend to address this by building a charging station. You'll still need to check the battery charge somehow if they don't get labeled.

The plastic battery flags (white ones were placed by AndyMark in the 2006 Kit of Parts, and the TechnoKats have given away yellow ones for the past couple of years) work very well for identifying charged batteries. If you put one in the battery connector as you remove it from the charger, you'll always know when a battery needs to be checked and/or charged.