We stopped installing them when they would not honor a warranty issue.
We felt thattheir warranty was not commensurate with the risk we and our
customer's faced.
On 1/19/2018 11:59 AM, Starlight Solar Power Systems wrote:
Drake,
We have at least a dozen systems that failed early from lost capacity over the
last 2 years with 2-4 year old battery banks. The AGM failures are all Lifeline
battery made by Concorde.
Lifeline and my distributor both told me I was “the only one” with failures. I
dropped Lifeline battery after being a dealer for 16 years and many hundreds of
systems installed. Historically we had seen 7-10 years average life from
battery banks that we installed. One regular customer is at 12 years and still
going. I have a sense of vindication now hearing from others about Concorde
capacity issues.
Thank you,
Larry Crutcher
Starlight Solar Power Systems
(928) 342-9103
On Jan 18, 2018, at 9:18 AM, Drake <drake.chamber...@redwoodalliance.org> wrote:
A Concorde AGM PVX 3050T recently failed in a bank of 8. Larry mentioned a
couple of brands experiencing problems. These batteries are 4 years old and
have been kept in float in an off grid system, never stressed. Hopefully
Concorde batteries are not going the way of Trojan L-16s. Has anyone else had
problems with Concorde?
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