Posts Tagged "AGM"

How Can I Tell If my Battery Has Permanent Sulfation?

Chances are that your battery has some permanent sulfation, if it will not “take” or “hold” a charge and exhibits one or more of the following conditions: If your wet (flooded) Standard (Sb/Sb) or wet (flooded) Low Maintenance (Sb/Ca) battery has been not been recharged for over three months, especially if the temperature in the storage area was consistently over 77° F...

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Deep Cycle Batteries

Unlike batteries used to start engines, deep cycle batteries are designed to store power. They have fewer and thicker lead plates as compared to starter batteries. Starter batteries are designed to provide a sudden surge of power needed to crank an engine, so there are more lead plates within these batteries and they are thinner, providing a larger surface area. All deep cycle batteries...

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