Posts Tagged "electrolyte"

Warning! How you are killing your batteries

People kill more deep cycle batteries with poor charging practices, than die of old age! Sulfation Lead sulfation actually starts when you remove the charging voltage a full charged lead-acid battery. The lead sulfate crystals are converted back to lead during the normal charging cycle. The real question is, if all of the lead sulfate crystals are not turned back into lead, how long does it take...

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How Lead Acid Batteries are Damaged

Auto start batteries are not made to be discharge below 10.5 volts. If this happens the lead sulfate formed on discharge will expand across the plates and separators and short the battery. The voltage across the terminals will measure 10.5 volts. This battery is dead and is not restorable. Another result of low discharge of an auto start battery is the reversal in polarity of one cell. In this...

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