GC2 battery brands
What brands of GC2 batteries have you had good luck with? How about from Sam's Club? Thanks-- Mick
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Do you think a Rolls is going to survive that treatment any better?
I proved it irrefutably in white paper test studies.
But people *refuse* to learn how to recover a battery. They are too lazy to read the free Rolls battery manual download. My crankiness suggests these are the same people who blame schools for not raising their children right.
The batteries from DEKA are not the batteries from west coast US Battery yet both slap Sam's Club labels on GC220 batteries.
And out west is not the patchwork East Coast. It can easily be a four hundred mile (read destroyed vacation) to warranty Sam's Club batteries. I got caught with my drawers down on a hundred eighteen dollar Wal-Mart yellow battery. Six months old and SIX HUNDRED MILES from the nearest outlet. No they don't warrant USA batteries in Mexico. This is the bitterest of lessons.
My customers about fell over when I informed them my service calls were regularly priced at their campsite in Yosemite National Park. The consensus was I prevented a vacation from becoming destroyed. The same in Mexico.
If a person does not mind spending a hundred dollars on fuel, plus losing a campsite and a day or two of vacation, shoot, go for it.
Just to remind some of a story that I posted on this site maybe 15 years ago under MEXBUNGALOWS.
A skipper of a sailboat approached me and told me a tale of woe. The alternator on his sloop full-fielded and before it burned out, it gassed and blew up all 8 L-16 batteries on his vessel. Rolls & Surrette L16's.
Blew up means blowing football sized holes, tossing case material all inside the lazarette. It took him 20 lbs of baking soda to neutralize the corrosive acid.
I had brought down 5-gallon buckets of resin used for repairing polyethylene battery cases. I began a 5-day odyssey of Chinese puzzle reassembling eight battery cases from the plates upward. He had to rig a bimini above me to keep me from getting fried. He was convinced all was lost. I told him, if things did not work out he only owed me for materials. I must have purchased every square inch of fiberglass cloth in the large city of Manzanillo.
I had his help and that of his crew to fit the jigsaw puzzle of pieces back together. Some small pieces were gone, so I had to patch fiberglass cloth and resin to fill the holes. Three days cure time then back to the city to buy five, three-gallon boxes of electrolyte. I had to settle for R/O water. I rigged up a low pressure air tubing that fit a couple of feet into the cells to mix the electrolyte. I performed a tropical blend to 1.260 while the cell caps were curing.
I then had to do another 392 mile drive to repair his nine hundred dollar alternator. Oh lucky me. I had a 180 amp big frame ford stator at home. And 50 amp 1/2" diodes. All 12 of them.
Back north I went. The 1.1 star hotel had saved my room. The belts were changed, the Yanmar 6-cyl engine was started and I found that the Ample Power regulator had been wired wrong. I swapped terminals, the regulator ramped up after 30 seconds and settled at 14.2 volts bulk charge. A couple of hours later voltage dropped to 13.2 volts (the tropics). Jubilant wasn't the word for the skipper.
He rode with me to the hotel. Paid my bill then we went to Banamex. He wire transferred six thousand four hundred dollars into my account and slapped thirteen one hundred dollar bills into my hand. Oh yeah the vessel was a 72' Nautor Swan.
His wife took dozens and dozens of images during the work. At the 1993 Los Vegas battery convention I wandered over to the Rolls booth. I slapped the pouch on their desk and said "I'd like to relate a story" It took them a few hours to digest it all. Then I presented the final Telegram. It was from the Aegean Sea.
The vessel was on its final leg of a circumnavigation. Problem free.
And don't ask where my battery bank came from.
I proved it irrefutably in white paper test studies.
But people *refuse* to learn how to recover a battery. They are too lazy to read the free Rolls battery manual download. My crankiness suggests these are the same people who blame schools for not raising their children right.
The batteries from DEKA are not the batteries from west coast US Battery yet both slap Sam's Club labels on GC220 batteries.
And out west is not the patchwork East Coast. It can easily be a four hundred mile (read destroyed vacation) to warranty Sam's Club batteries. I got caught with my drawers down on a hundred eighteen dollar Wal-Mart yellow battery. Six months old and SIX HUNDRED MILES from the nearest outlet. No they don't warrant USA batteries in Mexico. This is the bitterest of lessons.
My customers about fell over when I informed them my service calls were regularly priced at their campsite in Yosemite National Park. The consensus was I prevented a vacation from becoming destroyed. The same in Mexico.
If a person does not mind spending a hundred dollars on fuel, plus losing a campsite and a day or two of vacation, shoot, go for it.
Just to remind some of a story that I posted on this site maybe 15 years ago under MEXBUNGALOWS.
A skipper of a sailboat approached me and told me a tale of woe. The alternator on his sloop full-fielded and before it burned out, it gassed and blew up all 8 L-16 batteries on his vessel. Rolls & Surrette L16's.
Blew up means blowing football sized holes, tossing case material all inside the lazarette. It took him 20 lbs of baking soda to neutralize the corrosive acid.
I had brought down 5-gallon buckets of resin used for repairing polyethylene battery cases. I began a 5-day odyssey of Chinese puzzle reassembling eight battery cases from the plates upward. He had to rig a bimini above me to keep me from getting fried. He was convinced all was lost. I told him, if things did not work out he only owed me for materials. I must have purchased every square inch of fiberglass cloth in the large city of Manzanillo.
I had his help and that of his crew to fit the jigsaw puzzle of pieces back together. Some small pieces were gone, so I had to patch fiberglass cloth and resin to fill the holes. Three days cure time then back to the city to buy five, three-gallon boxes of electrolyte. I had to settle for R/O water. I rigged up a low pressure air tubing that fit a couple of feet into the cells to mix the electrolyte. I performed a tropical blend to 1.260 while the cell caps were curing.
I then had to do another 392 mile drive to repair his nine hundred dollar alternator. Oh lucky me. I had a 180 amp big frame ford stator at home. And 50 amp 1/2" diodes. All 12 of them.
Back north I went. The 1.1 star hotel had saved my room. The belts were changed, the Yanmar 6-cyl engine was started and I found that the Ample Power regulator had been wired wrong. I swapped terminals, the regulator ramped up after 30 seconds and settled at 14.2 volts bulk charge. A couple of hours later voltage dropped to 13.2 volts (the tropics). Jubilant wasn't the word for the skipper.
He rode with me to the hotel. Paid my bill then we went to Banamex. He wire transferred six thousand four hundred dollars into my account and slapped thirteen one hundred dollar bills into my hand. Oh yeah the vessel was a 72' Nautor Swan.
His wife took dozens and dozens of images during the work. At the 1993 Los Vegas battery convention I wandered over to the Rolls booth. I slapped the pouch on their desk and said "I'd like to relate a story" It took them a few hours to digest it all. Then I presented the final Telegram. It was from the Aegean Sea.
The vessel was on its final leg of a circumnavigation. Problem free.
And don't ask where my battery bank came from.
