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Another battery failure | 4 comments (4 topical, editorial)
Re: Another battery failure (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by Flux on Sun May 25th, 2008 at 02:37:45 AM MST
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20 years is a good life for these type of cells. That one looks as though the electrolyte might have stratified. These cells need a good boiling regularly to stir up the electrolyte. If the others are the same it might not be a bad idea to give them a boil, but the damage may have been done long ago and not recently.

You know you are really on a looser with them when they start splitting the jars. The positives eventually expand and short to the negatives or split the jars.

You seem to have avoided certain batches that failed by corrosion of the positive link bars and connection failure to the positive lug. I have seen batches fail that way in far less than 20 years. Tungstone and Chloride both seem to have made some change at various times and certain batches have suffered, not sure if any other manufacturers had this problem.

Flux

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Re: Another battery failure (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by wpowokal on Sun May 25th, 2008 at 05:21:30 AM MST
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If one looks at the second picture, to the left, two positive plates have definatly expanded and contacted the negative connetor.

They do get regular boilings, I feel that this one is just one that has fallen by the way, but I still expect to have enough survivors to last another 5 years.

allan down under
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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