astrobaja - 11-30-2012 at 11:23 AM
Hi all,
Wondering if anyone on the board has ever found a good spot in Ensenada to recycle their old batteries? We just got some new LT 16 sized sunextender
AGM batteries for our house solar system, so we are looking to get a little cash for our worn out Crown batteries. We know for sure that we can get
$25 apiece in San Diego. But I somehow doubt we can hope to get that here in BCN, anyone have experience with this? If so we could save a couple
heavily laden trips to the otro lado
Zapotec - 11-30-2012 at 11:25 AM
Astrobaja,thank you for this question, as I am also interested in knowing.
Be Charitable
MrBillM - 11-30-2012 at 11:29 AM
As I have and GIVE them to one of the Mexican workers. He'll find a place to get money for them.
Russ - 11-30-2012 at 11:44 AM
We use to give them away too, Now they do get more than the $3 in the past. I think the L-16's will fetch around $20 or more. I'll ask my tire guy he
also sells solar (golf cart) batteries and is getting me a price on the L-16's.
astrobaja - 11-30-2012 at 11:56 AM
Thanks Russ, our friend at the park entrance who works as a ranger suggested we donate them to the park, but they are really pretty much dead. When I
checked their voltage before the sun hit the panels they read as low as 21.6V (for a 24V system thats pretty much toast!) The batteries they have up
at the park sound equally as bad, no sense giving them used batteries that do nothing to improve the system!
David K - 11-30-2012 at 12:06 PM
Right... and we don't want them tossed over a cliff in the wilderness because they are no good to whoever gets them. Good question Mike!
monoloco - 11-30-2012 at 01:46 PM
Around here you can sell them at the same scrap yard that buys everyone's stolen copper wiring and plumbing. You're going to love the AGM's.
Bob and Susan - 11-30-2012 at 01:51 PM
in mulege you get 100 pesos for the big ones and 50 pesos for a car battery
astrobaja - 11-30-2012 at 02:02 PM
sounds like we'll be taking them NOB! Monoloco: yeah we already really like the AGM's, no off-gassing and no maintenance! Before we were really trying
to nurse the lead-acids along but had to add distilled water almost every week!
Hook - 11-30-2012 at 02:46 PM
Just be SURE your charger matches what Concorde demands. Concorde is PARTICULARLY nasty about warranty issues. You pay to have them shipped to THEM,
not your retailer, as I've heard. They almost NEVER honor a warranty claim. Always blaming it on the owner. Many retailers have bailed on carrying
them, for this reason.
I believe Concorde wants them to be trickled at 13.2 -13.4 or they gas. I think they want no more than 14.4 for bulk and absorption charging.
Bruce R Leech - 11-30-2012 at 02:48 PM
you can drop them here at my house and I will do it for you.
u2u if interested
astrobaja - 11-30-2012 at 03:25 PM
Bruce thanks very much for the kind offer, but we are heading up anyway soon so we can take 6 then and the other 6 when we go up to see the Hobbit
movie!
Good point Hook, one should always check the battery manufacturers specs for absorb/float/equalize values (although eq does not apply to AGM's) I set
the values to where they should be on my Outback CC's. I also set the RTS temp compensation to a fair bit lower as these batteries never even seem to
get warm to the touch.
I don't think I would have warranty issues as I got them through my Brother in Law and he has very good relations with them through his marine
electronics business.
larryC - 11-30-2012 at 05:14 PM
The last batteries I turned in for recycle I got 20 cents a pound for them. About a year ago. Prices vary so check around. The ones I turned in were
large 2v batteries and were 320 pounds each.
Hook - 11-30-2012 at 06:17 PM
I bought mine through the guy whom I believe sells more Concorde batts than anyone else in the US. The guy outside of Austin, TX. He sold just shy of
5000 last year. He was very specific about how they had to be charged...........or else.
Pescador - 12-1-2012 at 08:46 AM
We think they are gold in our area and they all get melted down for the lead which is very valuable in a fishing village.
astrobaja - 12-1-2012 at 09:19 AM
point taken Hook lets just hope we never have warranty issues with them!
Pescador, I know just what we need is more lead in the food chain! Is there not another alternative for lead as weights for fishing? There are non
lead alternatives for hunters but they are too stubborn to use them!