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Re: Battery question - not really LSR...

To: "Jon Wennerberg" <jon@infodestruction.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Battery question - not really LSR...
From: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 07:55:08 -0700
Jon
Go to google and log onto Interstate batteries. As I recall they have a 
trouble shooting and Q & A section.
Glen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Wennerberg" <jon@infodestruction.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 6:54 AM
Subject: Battery question - not really LSR...


> Yesterday I brought all four batteries inside - from our semi tractor - to 
> clean and charge 'em.  I wasn't able to get them to take enough charge to 
> start the truck outdoors.  One, or two, or maybe even three of them 
> probably will need replacing, based on what I've discovered.  But one 
> thing I found has me wondering why it happens.  Maybe one or more of you 
> can help.
>
> These are 1000 CCA 12V lead-acid batteries.  At least three of them have 
> four or five good cells -- and one dead one.  And in each of those it's 
> the last cell -- the one nearest the negative terminal.  A floating-ball 
> specific gravity tester shows four or five floaters in the good cells, but 
> that last one has (what must be) darn near drinking water inside -- the 
> balls drop like rocks.
>
> Okay, the cell is dead and won't take a charge.  Why is it that particular 
> cell that went dead (vs. one of the cells mid-way through the battery, 
> maybe)?
>
>                 Jon Wennerberg
> Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
>              Marquette, Michigan
>              (that's 'way up north)




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