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Lead Acid Batteries

Good ol' fashion lead acid!
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12V 9AH Sealed Lead-Acid Battery AC Charger
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lhommedieu
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Automated FLA hydration/watering finally
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ddxv
EG4 Charges All Day Never dropping to Float?
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sunshine_eggo
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EG4 18kpv not fully charging Lead acid Batteries
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bob monztr
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used industrial lead acid batteries
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Tarkis
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Recommendations for a 48 v AGM Battery with decent Amp/hr rating?
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offgridjames
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Schumacher SE-1275a charger making loud noises
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Whereiszack
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outboard1196
Should I scrap these batteries?
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outboard1196
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Looking for advice on auto watering setup
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autowater
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Specs for Motomaster 12V Eliminator Renewable Energy Deep Cycle Battery?
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Maple Mex
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wpns
48V float charger for Lead Acid with temperature compensation?
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Vigo
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Advice about GEL Battery System Settings
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Archos
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adrasto2006
Battery over flow
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OpenNRG
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Sealant material compatible with sulfuric acid
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Usmilav
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Hoping to bring lead back from the dead
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sunshine_eggo
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Battery charging 24v system
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HarryN
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Jumping off the lithium ship
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RV8R
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meetyg
Charging Gel/AGM batteries with Lifepo4 charging profile: What are the consequences?
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853
Substrate
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meetyg
AGMs: Any advantages over Lifepo4?
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350
Substrate
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Standard sizes for SLA batteries
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Lawrence_SoCal
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Total noob looking for advice on battery strings.
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OzSolar
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Desulfation of flooded lead acid batteries with just a DC power supply.
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onrbikes
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seneysolar
Trojan AES
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iwasforcedtopickausername
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Recommendations for balancer?
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SunDave
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PowerSource 1800Solar Repair
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CalS88
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Updates on Converting a Polaris EV UTV to lithium in 2024. Any recommendations?
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PVGeezer
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Voltage not reaching absorption voltage (stopping at floating)
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Mohammad10711
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mix SLA and lithium in series?
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mikefitz
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Small powersport battery initial charge capacity
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wopachop
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outboard1196
Battery selection question.
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outboard1196
outboard1196
DXHum
So I am going to try my hand at reconditioning lead acid batteries...
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circus
circus
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Battery gravity low while battery is fully charged
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willful simplicity
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Orphaned system. Lead Battery Identification.
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seneysolar
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Charging one battery out of 16
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v_green57
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Active balancer for Lead acid system! The silver bullet!
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AshleyL
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Flooded Lead Acid deep cycle batteries coming out of storage
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outboard1196
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Water venting
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rodwilsonsr
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sunshine_eggo
"Recovering" AGM batteries II
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sunshine_eggo
sunshine_eggo
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low water
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OzSolar
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outboard1196
Tail current setting.
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OzSolar
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Corrosion clean up
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rodwilsonsr
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C&D AES-2870F Battery EQ.
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ancestral
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how old are your flooded batteries
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Deveak
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Pb C, evolution of lead acid?
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pollenface
pollenface
wpns
12/24/38/48V maintainer?
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wpns
wpns
outboard1196
Delaying charging to increase charge rate .
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220
outboard1196
outboard1196
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Lead acid + AGM battery in series
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Recovering EE
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nycamper62
Tel 12-170FGa AGM batteries
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Cdeguise
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hardtop
Used Lifepo4 algorithm
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sunshine_eggo
sunshine_eggo
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24V AGM batteries in series at 13.40V and 13.63V. How to balance?
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soylentgreen
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Trojan Battery Age
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Bluedog225
Bluedog225
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Analog battery monitoring
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v_green57
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Lead-acid battery monitor for 6V cells within a 48V battery
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Prosolar
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hardtop
Voltage monitor?
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sunshine_eggo
sunshine_eggo
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Stainless steel bolts and nuts for battery terminal connectors
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Coydon
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sunshine_eggo
"Recovering" AGM batteries
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hardtop
hardtop
squowse
AGM battery off gassing hydrogen sulphide
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squowse
squowse
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FLA guys, is my battery bank overcharging?
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Grateful Ed
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Trojan battery cases distorted
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pir8ped
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Is there any harm in using a higher than normal float voltage to compensate for lack of input overnight?
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Red Squirrel
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JBertok
FYI: maximizing FLA performance with Schneider using "Custom" battery calculations
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JBertok
JBertok
hardtop
Battery for jump starting?
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pollenface
pollenface
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Optimum SAL AGM charge settings?
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sunshine_eggo
sunshine_eggo
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desulfation of large lead acid
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Daddy Tanuki
Daddy Tanuki
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Mixing Lead and LiFePO4
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grizzzman
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Hedges
Balancing used AGM
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aronhoustongy
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Costco Interstate GC8 for solar
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dopeassjackson
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Rolls AGMs “S6-275AGM-RE
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HarryN
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Roswell Bob
reclaiming lead
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DPC
DPC
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Lifeline Battery manuals
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HarryN
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power safe 12v170fs soh
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bugsb
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outboard1196
Help me understand what went wrong .
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outboard1196
outboard1196
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Battery link correct ?
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sunshine_eggo
sunshine_eggo
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Water distiller for lead acid battery?
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wpns
wpns
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Mixing Batteries... Again
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grizzzman
grizzzman
Austin68
Single-Point Watering systems
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Austin68
Austin68
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Build a variable current limiter for lead-acid battery charging
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Vigo
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Charging AGM vs FLA battery
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Kellie
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Co-worker says Im wrong. Maybe you can tell me if I'm crazy.....
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DIYrich
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Smokin’ Hot Battery
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v_green57
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Rolls batteries and Solark 12k
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DGSmooth
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Anyone with SMA Sunny Islands 6048 set their battery system to 42 volts?
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Hedges
Hedges
JBertok
Here's a 48V FLA SoC chart
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JBertok
JBertok
Endervi
Suspicious about my 200ah battery actual capacity
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sunshine_eggo
sunshine_eggo
Lt.Dan
Maintaining small starter battery
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Lt.Dan
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New Fuse Holders
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DIYrich
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Testing/using used Eaton UPS batteries?
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krby
Head check on bulk & float voltage for Renogy AGM
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krby
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AC recharging at 14.6 volts over wintertime.
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sibaroni
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Charging batteries in a bank separately
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tylarson
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rin67630
Low Power Lead-Acid solar chip CN3767, what a crap!
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rin67630
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'Hacking' sealed VRLA batteries for maintenance??
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IC_theSun
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Kilovault PLC 2100 capacity loss in cold
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Toadhill
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RENOGY 100ah AGM Batteries
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sunshine_eggo
sunshine_eggo
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12V Lead Acid Battery DOD Readings
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OzSolar
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Hassico
Gel battery losing charge fast and weird inverter behavior
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Vigo
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Sol-Ark 12K - Batteries Drop from 75% to 0%
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Cmiller
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Lead acid or LifPo decision time
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krby
krby
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Do I need to freeze-protect marine batteries?
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Vigo
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Battery SG tests show ~60% SOC, but Voltage drops to 6v under load.
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