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MEXICOWANDERER
Jul 26, 2021Explorer
Opinion:
This has all the earmarks of being an off-spec UL-1 garden tractor battery that the Chinese are trying to dump. No reputable vendor wants to touch it so it is being sold as an E CAVEAT EMPTOR special with no recourse for claims or warranty. Factory manufacturers lose much face in China when they get stuck with a couple hundred pallets of unsellable merchandise. But word gets around quickly in the mass import markets. Remember the THUNDERPROOF INVERTER? The price kept dropping until it could be had for seventy dollars. Customers posted horrible revelations about smoke, flames and wild electricity. A friend bought a pallet of Chinese clothes irons that were epoxied without being soldered. He paid a dollar. But they had "burn proof" 3 meter silicone power cords. About 15 gauge. The irons went to the iron recycler in Ensenada, and we had 72 power cords for a dollar. The 620 mile journey was a negative.
With regard to the latest garbage offer, someone with a 12-volt CPAP Might want to take a roll of the dice and see if they come up with 12-***** boxcars, line inn. But stake your bet this is a 20 amp hour minus 20% usable battery. 16 amp hours which would get someone through the night for a period.
This has all the earmarks of being an off-spec UL-1 garden tractor battery that the Chinese are trying to dump. No reputable vendor wants to touch it so it is being sold as an E CAVEAT EMPTOR special with no recourse for claims or warranty. Factory manufacturers lose much face in China when they get stuck with a couple hundred pallets of unsellable merchandise. But word gets around quickly in the mass import markets. Remember the THUNDERPROOF INVERTER? The price kept dropping until it could be had for seventy dollars. Customers posted horrible revelations about smoke, flames and wild electricity. A friend bought a pallet of Chinese clothes irons that were epoxied without being soldered. He paid a dollar. But they had "burn proof" 3 meter silicone power cords. About 15 gauge. The irons went to the iron recycler in Ensenada, and we had 72 power cords for a dollar. The 620 mile journey was a negative.
With regard to the latest garbage offer, someone with a 12-volt CPAP Might want to take a roll of the dice and see if they come up with 12-***** boxcars, line inn. But stake your bet this is a 20 amp hour minus 20% usable battery. 16 amp hours which would get someone through the night for a period.
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