I have used Trojan T-125's and their USBattery equivalent US125's. My experience may be different than yours but I found our local SF Trojan dealer not interested in selling 22 T-125 batteries to me, let alone delaying the pickup of dead cores until I had swapped out the pack. The Trojan batteries cost more, lasted longer (energy and cycles), but my local dealer was awful.
On the other hand, the SF Bay area USBattery rep, Jim Ramos had a better pack price, excellent customer service (he would come back at a later date to pick up the dead cores), and a long standing reputation as EV-friendly. In talking to other USBattery reps in different parts of the U.S., I found I was spoiled by the excellent service from Jim (not all battery reps are alike, Trojan or otherwise). So, contact each battery rep in your area, and see which has the best price and EV-friendly service. USBatteries are good batteries, but they are one step less performing than a Trojan. I suggest seeking Trojan, then USBattery, before considering other brands. With other brands, I have heard stories of inconsistent quality, weak posts, bad seals on cell covers (poor plastic molding), old-date batteries sold with newer ones (some dealers are used to selling one or two batteries and not familiar with selling larger quantity of batteries), etc. Using search terms of Phoenix, AZ T-125 returned different battery dealers near you: http://www.trojanbattery.com/tools/dealers.aspx?zip=85015&x=62&y=10 T-125 Trojan http://www.usbattery.com/usb_az_contacts.html US-125 USBattery http://localdirectory.azcentral.com/exide+corp.9.458115p.home.html GC-135 Exide http://goo.gl/maps/DJY4q Interstate batteries near Phoenix, AZ 2300 Interstate http://www.copperstatebattery.com/crown.php CR-235 Crown {brucedp.150m.com} On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, at 01:30 PM, Michael A. Radtke wrote: ... > Since I was not able to by my i-MiEV, I'm looking to purchase 17 > Trojan T-125's or equivalent for my ElectraVan. I'm in Phoenix, AZ. > Does anyone have a suggestion for sources to check? - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
