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Subject:UB12220 batteries update
From:Bob Stevens
Date:Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:01:43 -0600

Mine are good to go. After 2 years use, quite frequent camping for several
days at a time,
since I retired 1/09 and have been on the road a lot.
All 4 are within 12.84 to 12.86 volts so my kitchen//fridge "issues" are
elsewhere. I'm
replacing the Sure Power 1315 with a 1315-200 as my motor has a 120amp
alternator
now and the 1315 is only "good" to 100 amps. I must have a fuse problem, or
perhaps
a Vitrifrigo problem, but don't know the answer to that yet.
This battery set up is working well for me.
bob

>
> > I have had the 88ah UB12220 battery system. It worked GREAT for me for a
> > year. Then I started having (unrelated) problems with my charge system. I
> > took the charge system out isolating (and thus not charging) the house
> > battery at all for about a month. In that time (with no load on it), it
> was
> > determined that it really wasn't holding much of a charge. After another
> few
> > months (in the car, now with the charge system back on it), it came to
> the
> > point where they could no longer charge.... the batteries were internally
> > dead (and blowing fuses that I have inline in the charge system, acting
> as a
> > dead short). Now the battery bank sits at about 4volts each, and is
> > officially "dead". Anyone want them?
> > Free.
> >
> > I'm putting in a Group 41 and just beating the heck out of it.
> > It's cheap, they are easy to replace, and I have a spare.
> >
> >
> > -Craig
>
>