On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Robert / Susan Harper wrote:
> I've also seen caps sold which are touted as "recirculating" the gasses
> produced by the battery back into the cells, by combining the hydrogen and
> oxygen off-gassing back into water (by catalytic action). This supposedly
> helps keep the battery water level "topped off". They're sold by RV Solar
> Electric in AZ (Noel Kirby). They recommend inexpensive golf cart batteries
> (Trojans under another name), pairs of 6V, from Sam's Club. I think about
> $120 per 6V pair. Imagine that ... a dealer sending you to another retailer
> for the best buy in batteries ...
> Anyone had experience with these "WATERCAPS"?
>
> I've heard many times about the joys of maintenance- and gas-free gel cells,
> but it would take quite a while for that joy to catch up to the pain of
> upfront cost as far as I'm concerned.
>
> I bought the Iota converter/charger, 55 amp, with the added gizmo to provide
> 3-stage charging, and will start with a Siemens 75 watt solar panel.
Bob and All .....
Shortly before my power supply crapped out on my new HP computer, I had
discovered a battery place in Canada that was running a sale on gel type
batteries. New, ready to go size 27 at $69 plus shipping. I don't remember
the name of the battery as I'm not familiar with gel battery names. And
worse yet, I can't remember the name of the company selling them. I had
just bookmarked the site when the power supply went out. Instead of
replacing the power supply, CompUSA, where I bought it, sent my entire CPU
back to HP along with the hard drive with several hundreds dollars worth
of software, all my files, bookmarks, etc. and wanted me to accept a new
in the box CPU for my old one. That won't do obviously. CompUSA is
"attempting" to see if they can get my hard drive back from HP.
I learned two things from this experience: (1) Back up daily and (2) I
will never buy anything else from CompUSA. Ever. They misrepresented every
aspect of this screw up and lied repeatedly. Corporate management will be
hearing from me.
Jim Greene
'68 Tradewind
Atlanta
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