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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">little background... battery is in a 30kw Generac standby generator. Protected from the weather</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI"> It exercised itself last week with no problem..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">cables and connectors were clean and tight. It was 2 years and 2 months old...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">generator is equipt with a trickle charger that keeps battery topped off and I've never had a problem with it. I think it's rated at 1 amp.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">took the battery back to Walmart and it was 2 months out of a 2 year warranty and they said they would give me a core charge ...nothing else, even though it EXPLODED !!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">I'm gonna wash the generator down with baking soda today. Signs of sprayed battery acid are evident everywhere. Then do some testing... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">I'm with dirtbeard...I'm leaning toward internal short as I've seen lots of the same thing on the net with Walmart batteries.....more to come</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Segoe UI'; COLOR: #000000"><B>To:</B> Pat Horne <<A href="mailto:patintexas@icloud.com">patintexas@icloud.com</A>></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-SIZE: small">Guessing here, but perhaps the battery sulfated, the plates touched/shorted and caused internal short. </DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-SIZE: small">If the battery was not vented adequately, vents plugged, etc., it could have pressurized and exploded.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-SIZE: small">I use desulfating trickle chargers/battery tenders on all of my lead acid batteries in hopes to extend the battery life and hopefully to prevent this scenario.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_default style="FONT-SIZE: small">Again, though, just guessing here.</DIV></DIV><BR>
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<DIV class=gmail_attr dir=ltr>On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 11:33 PM Pat Horne <<A href="mailto:patintexas@icloud.com">patintexas@icloud.com</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Never had this happen. Instead of getting a battery & rolling the dice as to whether you have a short in the generator, use the battery in a vehicle with jumper cables & put a headlight in series with it. If the headlight doesn’t light when you connect the leads, you don’t have a short.
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<DIV>Peace, Pat. <BR><BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr><BR>On Oct 6, 2023, at 6:22 PM, john <<A href="mailto:jniolon@att.net" target=_blank>jniolon@att.net</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">here's a new one for me... Hadn't heard my generator exercise lately so tried to start it manually...click..ckick</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">pulled the cover off and here's what I found... top and side blown off and of course fluid drained out</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">looks like it exploded... anyone seen this before?? can't trouble shoot till I get another battery... what...other than a direct</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Segoe UI">short would cause this?? what/where/how would you troubleshoot ??</FONT></DIV>
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