Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-08 Thread Matt Tritt
and delete this message from your system. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Surrette Sent: 05 September, 2008 08:36 To: Matt Cc: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question Hi Matt et al

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-06 Thread Matt Tritt
Jamie, And since the vast majority of groundwater and artificial lake water is very high in calcium chloride out here in the far West, using untreateted tap water is like murdering your batteries. Matt James Surrette wrote: Hi Matt et al, Sorry for missing my que to respond. As

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-06 Thread Matt Tritt
U-Bet, Ray. It's not like the bloody things are cheap! =(:/ Matt R. Walters wrote: Matt; I've used the watering systems for years as well, but never the tap connect. We have hard water here too, good to know that our distilled water mania is not in vain. Ray On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:30 PM,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-06 Thread Darryl Thayer
, 9/6/08, Matt Tritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matt Tritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question To: James Surrette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 4:39 PM Jamie

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-05 Thread James Surrette
Hi Matt et al, Sorry for missing my que to respond. As mentioned, the big concerns is mineral content in the water which will adhere to the plate and take the place of a possible reaction site - thus reducing capacity. As you can imagine, water quality is a concern from both the input and

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-04 Thread R. Walters
Matt; I've used the watering systems for years as well, but never the tap connect. We have hard water here too, good to know that our distilled water mania is not in vain. Ray On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Matt wrote: Ray, We sell plenty of watering systems, but none are fed from an

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-03 Thread Matt
This is a majorly bad idea! Tap water usually contains dissolved minerals that will screw up battery plates, reduce or increase conductivity and generally void battery warrantees. Am I correct about this Jamie? Matt R. Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of the single point battery

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-02 Thread Allan Sindelar
Wrenches, I had promised a followup post on what I learned when I inspected this client's batteries. The short form of the original issue (original post query is at bottom): client had as recently as June been able to EQ from his array to 31.1V, now couldn't get past 30.7. There are a few good

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-02 Thread Bruce Geddes
And one final question: In my original post I asked if deionized water was the same as distilled water. Nobody addressed this question. The customer said he investigated (Wikipedia, I think) and found no difference. Any other opinions, or (even better) definitive answers on this? Thank you,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-02 Thread mick abraham
Allen Sindelar was polling for information/opinions about deionized water versus distilled for lead battery top-up. Since genuine steam distilled H2O can be bought for $0.69 per gallon, why take chances on anything else? There are enough other possible problems without creating more for ourselves.

Re: [RE-wrenches] Followup to Surrette Battery Question

2008-09-02 Thread R. Walters
Some of the single point battery watering systems have a pressure regulator that plumbs right to the water tap with a small filter. Apparently we in the solar business are more anal about using distilled water than many other battery users. Ray On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:46 PM, James Surrette