On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:26:16 +0100, Steve Firth
wrote:

|On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:39:41 +0100, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
|
| Leisure batteries (when not maintenance free) require topping up at
| intervals. Insist that your customer tops up the battery at regular
| intervals. 2 monthly should be fine, if you install some sort of charge
| controller.
|
|Errrm, if he fits a solar panel and a Rutland (or similar) controller the
|idea is that the battery will be topped up continuously in daylight hours.
|The problem is that in winter the days will be short, the sun will be of
|much lesser intensity and snowfall or days of low cloud will leave the
|possibility that the panel fails to charge the battery. This is why a
|second source such as a wind generator is a good idea.

Sorry I meant top up with distilled/deionised water.
I lost a leisure battery with zig charge controller through not topping it
up with distilled/deionised water :-(
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