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Old Feb 9, 2013 | 07:26 AM
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Default Re: Varta battery

Originally Posted by dinasrt
Yours succumbed to the cold; mine succumbed to the heat....... I think. Maybe my tender faulted and overcharged it? Not sure. What do you guys think? I removed it a couple of weeks ago to do some other work and discovered this. Here are a couple of pic.'s of it. Sorry for the crappy shots, but what it's showing is significant bulging on both sides of the long walls. It's been on the shelf for this couple of weeks and still has a full charge, but I'm afraid of it now. I'll be wrapping the next batt. in a heat reflecting material kit I got from DEI.
I believe mine went for lack of use. Too long on the tenders in a cold garage. We will treat the Braille a little better by driving the coupe more. As for the roadster. She is a weekender now but still sports all the goodies as the coupe with only the pulley difference. The little guys as you know are for racing. I was happy to get 2 yrs out of them. The Braille site is good reading btw. They have come a long way in the light weight technology.
 
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