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Re: SV: storage tips needed




It's my understanding that an inevitable & slight coating around the
battery will lead to discharge if coupled with the ground or some other
semi conductive material. Placing it on an insulator cuts the drainage
by a couple of orders of magnitude.

TBerk

Zach Vrooman wrote:
> 
> The way this was explained to me, is that the batteries and concrete thing
> comes from a few old farmers. What would happen is that they'd store a
> piece of equipment in a barn, take out the battery, and hay would sometimes
> fall across the terminals, and discharge the battery. This is what I was
> told when I started at my present job. The guy could be full of it, but he
> heard it at a battery sales seminar. YMMV.
> 
> ----------
> > From: JLuk77@aol.com
> > To: ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu; scirocco-L@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Re: SV: storage tips needed
> > Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 10:34 PM
> >
> > In a message dated 6/10/99 6:34:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu writes:
> >
> > << I usually take the battery out of the car to keep it from discharging.
> >  Store the battery on wood or cardboard. Concrete, IIRC, is especially
> bad
> >  for the battery, tho I don't know why.
> >   >>
> > this is old logic for rubber cased batteries, today's plastic ones are
> fine
> > on concrete as they are not porous.  this is what I have been told, just
> to
> > give you a heads up the concrete will not kill your battery.
> > Josh Lukasik, 88 16v 2.0
> >
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