Just got back from loading 4 extremely heavy Rolls Surrette L16 batteries – that have been cluttering up Ian’s yard for the past two years or so – into the jeep.
Tomorrow I’ll use them as cores for my purchase of six new batteries for the Lair – a task which has been put off for over a month due to logistical difficulties. I was very concerned that it was going to be put off yet again, because I couldn’t get the battery store in the big town about 50 miles away to answer its damned phone and confirm that they would be open tomorrow – which I’m told is a holiday – and also had the batteries I want in stock. But they finally did and they will be and they do, so we’re on.
BTW, those nice new gloves were a gift from Generous Reader Terrapod, which I forgot to mention in writing about my little bike mishap. Thanks, T!
Those are some serious off-grid batteries. Are those what you are going with in the future?
No worries Joel, I just hope they fit as they are marked XL and you mentioned you use L.
By the way, I am once more in a “hand tool scavenger hunt” so if you need any specific kind of tool (or other item like gloves) let me know, I might already have some extras of stuff on hand and more coming as the auctions locally are back in operation and prices are sometimes unbelievably low.
What started it all is that my grandson (yeah, I am old) is now at the U and discovered he needs some tools as a single man apartment dweller.
Cheers, and don’t bust your back with those batteries, suckers are HEAVY.
I wish. But probably not. Rolls Surrette is still like the Rolls Royce of FLA batteries. I do plan to look at prices, but expect to come back with T105s. I’m just going to use six instead of my current four, to knock down the discharge cycles. My solar panel situation is better than it was in 2019 when I bought the ones I have now.
I have 12 of those things, deader than the proverbial doornail, used unto their ultimate demise. I have to find someplace to recycle them, they’ve cluttered up my shop for too many years now. Perhaps I was hoping that one day they’d come to an agreement and walk off into the sunset without any help, but I suspect that won’t happen.
At my advanced age I have to use a hoist to get them into the back of the truck. When did 120 pounds get to be so damned heavy?
Steve: In my experience, 120 pounds has ALWAYS been heavy.