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Surviver76
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Dec 13, 2017

Adding Second Battery to My Existing Solar System :::

Hi Guys, I am in a truck camper in Arizona and my original house battery is a 100AH AGM but it is old and very poor. I need to add a second battery but remember something about that the bad batt will...
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drsteve
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Dec 26, 2017
Saw a battery blow up once when I worked in a lumberyard years ago. Guy was jumping a fork lift, and when the clamp touched the terminal there was a spark, and BOOM! Hydrogen gas from the discharged battery had accumulated in the battery box, and it blew the top off the battery. Pure luck that nobody was hurt.

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