…I worked on some batteries. 🙂
Turns out D normally services his batteries at the end of the month, and from his hospital bed in a city far, far away he began fretting about them. Makes sense, he has twice as much to fret over as most people…
These are actually his old batteries. He recently replaced these with 16 Rolls Surrette monsters – $5000 after core credits. Gulchin’ ain’t easy.
D and L have their separate spheres of responsibility, over which (I sometimes gather) they hover jealously. The power system is deep in D’s sphere, and it took major serious illness before he’d let anybody else touch his batteries. Topping off electrolyte levels is not rocket science but it is a bit persnickety – you can make an expensive mess if you do it wrong. And L had never done it before, so yesterday morning she had me show her the ropes. Unfortunately she recently had eye surgery – on top of everything else that’s going on – and her vision hasn’t returned to the point where that proved practical. So this morning I went over and took care of it. Since he does it regularly, it doesn’t take long to bring things up to proper.
OK, I give up. My knowledge of history is lamentable. Google says Battery Day is 18FEB so either you’re referring to some historical battle or this is a very very delayed post or…?
Jeez. Just re-read the opening of your post. The beauty of the internet is that one can display reading comprehension failure with the mere click of a mouse. Sigh.
🙂 Look on the bright side, Robert, you have educated me. I was completely unaware there was any such holiday as “Battery Day.” Around here, it’s always the first day of the month – because that’s the day I service batteries.
I was totally spoiled by my old set of SLA batteries which I received used/free yet lasted me for a decade. Now I have a set of flooded golf cart batteries, so I have come to really appreciate (read “depend on”) your monthly battery maintenance post. I even appreciate your post when it comes a day early! I bought these batteries new, and rarely take more than 20 amp-hours out of them. Still, I bet they won’t live as long as those used SLAs did.