we have close to 200 buses. were fixing to buy a bettery charger that charges 6 batteries at once. before we spend money on this . I wanted yalls input. do any of yall have a battery campaign that's working for you guys. were trying to reduce the number of good batteries that get tossed and lower cost of new batteries. so I would greatly appreciate anyone who has a campaign plz let me know thank you!!!!
We load test ours at every annual inspection. Most the time, if there is a date sticker on them still, if they are questionable when we test them, they get replaced.
We load test ours at every PM, replace all of them if one test bad. Summers are a killer for us as not all the buses are used and just sit there. We have a fleet of 125 buses and 4 battery chargers, we charge ours on the bus. Our buses are under sheds with outlets at every post which makes it nice to take the charger out to the bus and charge it.
Summer is our big battery issue here in Southeast Georgia, however good battery maintenance is really the key to battery long life. keep them clean!!!
I switched from the NAPA batteries 7136 950 or 1000 cca,our price 118+ to F31S-800 batteries from fleetpride that costs 66+ and has 840 cca. Here in the south we don't need the 1000 cca's. The switch has worked well so far.
Battery campain
Posted - 09/30/2015 : 07:49:18 AM
