[OT] More on Batteries
Steven Elling
ellings at kcnet.com
Tue May 13 22:13:18 CDT 2003
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 14:29, Bradley Miller wrote:
> >However, what about alkaline batteries? I'm looking at some Rayovac's
> > that have Dec 2009 written on them. What about lead-acid batteries?
> > I've had lead-acid batteries in cars that sat for over 6 months and
> > were still able to crank over the engine.
>
> Apples and oranges here. Alkaline batteries are a different beast and
> don't have the same loss rate as a rechargeable type battery. The car
> battery thing is another "capacity" issue. Most passenger cars provide
> very little resistance for a modern battery. Try sticking one of those 6
> month batteries in a high compression V8 with a lot of cubic inches. ;-)
Exactly. I was pointing out the blanket statement "Stored batteries will
loose up to 10% of their charge per day." Jonathan wrote about gell-cell
and lead-acid batteries so an inference to which type he was referring to
cannot be made.
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