FLA batteries cells fail generally in two manners. Open Cell and Shorted.
Open Cells are more resistive and "Eat up" charging voltage which denies voltage and charging potential to the rest of the bank so the entire bank sags. This is the most common type of failure. Shorted Cells are less resistive so they allow voltage and current to pass on to the rest of the cells in the string. This causes an overcharge condition because the dead cell isn't dropping any voltage and the rest of the cells in the string become "overcharged". Sometimes SG's will look good, but when the bank is under load you will see the voltage drop off quickly. This is often the shorted cell. Battery SG's are like Goldilocks and the three bears.. There is too high... Too low and Just right... Too low and you lose capacity and this causes sulfation, which will cause overheating, excessive water use, and will lead to failure. This is the most common way an FLA battery bank dies is low SG's are not corrected soon enough and the bank sulfates. Too high, and you'll get great capacity, for a while, but that higher acidity will cause corrosion on the plates which will act a lot like sulfation. On these, you will often see a darker electrolyte as the higher acidity/corrosion is eating away at the active material of the plates. To figure this out what you need to do is... 1. Charge the bank to what you think is full or close to it.. 2. Find the 10 Hour Discharge Rate of the bank. (C/10 Discharge Current) 3 Apply load as close as you can get it by running loads in the house. You will be running this test for 2-5 hours depending on test results. 4. Monitor battery voltages during this test every 30-60 mins. individual battery voltages should stay pretty close to each other as they discharge, If you start to see one or two batteries sag in voltage before the rest you have weak or dying cells. 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