Re: (ET) Battery Care etc.

[Wayne Mosher <alleights att net>]

Is it possible at all that having a grid of mild steel reinforcing wires
embedded as little as a fraction of an inch below the surface of concrete
would have any effect on discharge of batteries sitting on the surface of
concrete?

Here is another source of info on deep discharge batteries.  I'd be glad to
hear what our "battery gurus" think of it.

www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question219.htm&url=http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~schmaus/dcbat.html

"David Roden (Akron OH USA)" wrote:

> Keeping the top clean is all that's really necessary.  That eliminates
> leakage paths across the top.  If you let the battery get gunky, it won't
> matter whether it's in a steel frame or not.  And concrete doesn't 
> conduct
> electricity any better than wood.  They are both insulators.
>