Could I bother you all with another question? Since I up graded my storage last Jan 07 to 24 volts I have noticed every time I do my battery maintenance (1 per month) I have a lot of electrolyte puddled on top of the batteries. I'll clean it off with distilled water and soda and dry them but next month same thing.
I am filling them per the manufacture to 1/8" below the bottom of the fill neck. My charge rate is 80 amp's into 660 amp bank or around C10 for bulk charge. My voltage is at 28.8 for adsorption and float is 26.6.
My concern is if I remove this amount of electrolyte every time I do maintenance I slowly lower the S.G. and damage the battery. While I know some deposit on the batteries is normal the amount I find seems a little high.
I never had this problem for my 12 volt bank and most of the charge numbers I'm using are just double so I'm a little perplexed as to what going on. I thought of lowering the adsorption voltage to 28.6 and see if that helps but I don't want to be under charging. C10 doesn't see to aggressive for this size bank so I'm not sure if I need to slow down the bulk phase.
The batteries live in a 12 foot deep hole under the power house were the inverter and charge controller live to keep them out of the summer heat so I haven't had a chance to do day to day monitoring as I have to open the floor, ventilate and put a ladder down. So it's not a run out and have a look affair. Any theory's or insight would be appreciated.
I've loaded a few pictures so you can see what I'm talking about
Thanks
Bob