The evening was Sept 28th… I was looking over various readings in my Home-Assistant instance and something caught my eye. Wait.. our chassis batteries were at… 4.6v ? Clearly, that couldn’t be right… I have them on a dedicated 145 watt solar panel to maintain them. Surely, they were fine?

Alas, they were .. not. I tried charging them and did get them to about 13 volts, but that, they did not keep. As soon as they were disconnected from the charger, back to 6 volts or less they went.

The next day, I called around and found 2 x Duracell batteries that would work quite well, and… they were less expensive than some lower grade batteries that I’d also found.

An hour or so of work, and I had the batteries swapped and ready for our pending departure on Oct 1st.


Michael

Resident Tesla nut and polymath. Raised in eastern Kentucky, joined the US Navy at 19 to operate a Nuclear Reactor on a Fast-Attack submarine. After finishing his enlistment, Michael has continued to follow his passions in technology, astronomy, and of course, traveling the country.

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