<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Guessing here, but perhaps the battery sulfated, the plates touched/shorted and caused internal short. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Again, though, just guessing here.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 11:33 PM Pat Horne <<a href="mailto:patintexas@icloud.com">patintexas@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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. <div><br></div><div>Peace, Pat. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Pat Horne <div>We support Habitat for Humanity</div><div><br></div></div><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><div dir="ltr">


<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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