Date:         Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:17:16 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: CDN Tire: Two 6 volt vs One 12 volt battery question
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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Jake pointed out that I could have shoved any Can postal code into the
Canadian Tire website and seen the batteries. I was too sleepy to figure
that out this morning, which makes pretty much everything I wrote about
AGMs and stuff pretty suspect.

Anyway, the photo of the 6V battery shows vents, so I think that makes
it a flooded cell (vented) battery, and not an AGM.

The 6-hour rating of 150 amp hours is under heavy golf cart use. In
Malcolm's application, which requires fewer amps/hour than a golf cart
does, this battery may rate at 200 or more amp/hours. But can't tell,
pity Canadian Tire provided neither dimensions, weight, nor the Exide
model number. My guess is that it is an Exide E3600, here's a forum
thread on rv.net about them:

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/14647673/gotomsg/14648440.cfm

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



Loren Busch typed:
> RE: Batteries
> Are the 6 volt batteries sealed, like the 12v AGM?
>