coffee from a perculator tastes much better
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:42:15 -0500
> From: eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Batteries (again)
>
> Come on people step up!
> You know you need one.
> Coffee in the morning from a real live coffee maker.
> You can even run a small microwave oven on one.
>
> Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:
>> OK, these are bigger than the orange ones.
>>
>> 134 amp hour at the 20 hour rate, 122 amp hour at the 10 hour rate.
>>
>> The orange batteries were rated at 92 amp hour but I don't remember if
>> it was at the 10 or 20 hour rate.
>>
>> These sell for $350 - $475 from discount retailers --- plus shipping
>> for a 100 lb battery so add another $50 - $75 for ground shipping to
>> that price.
>>
>> They are a 10 year constant cycle design that should last 15+ years
>> only being cycled a handful of times per year. This batch is
>> manufacture dated 2004 and newer and they were pulled from service in
>> late 2007/early 2008. Once again, these were used in
>> telecommunications as backup batteries and were probably only cycled
>> once or twice during their online life. All of them are tested prior
>> to shipping them to me.
>>
>> I've been putting money back to buy more batteries -- but, here's the
>> catch, I can only afford 7 or 8 of these to put in the UPS's here at
>> the office. This is a warehouse pallet sale and they MUST be purchased
>> in lots of 16.
>>
>> I have to pre-sell at least 8 of these at $275 each then max out my
>> credit card (putting money back means not running the card up <grin>).
>> Shipping to TCB buyers will have to be by TCB express.
>>
>> If I can sell 7 I can probably eat the extra $275 for a while if
>> there's a late buyer, or, knowing me, I'll end up finding a use for
>> the extra.
>>
>> The ones I sell have to be prepaid sales. I just don't have the cash
>> or credit to be an entrepreneur on this one.
>>
>> Anyone interested let me know. If there is enough interest we'll start
>> figuring out how to get the money into my bank account.
>>
>> These are, of course, on a first come basis by my contact so depending
>> on who else he's talking to these could be gone tomorrow, or still in
>> the warehouse in a month. Speed would be a good idea though.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gerald
