Re: (ET) Heat Generation from charging

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

On 30 Aug 2006 at 23:46, David C Robie wrote:

> The world is full of fairly decent used 12V batteries at the town
> recycling pits.  Some people just change em cause winter's coming on.

There's a battery dealer several miles from my house.  I buy batteries for 
our ICE cars from them because they carry East Penn brand, which I like.  
But that's not their big money maker.  They're in a kind of low-income 
neighborhood with a thriving population of aging Detroit Land Yachts.  
Their 
big turnover is in "refurbished" batteries, which they sell for $20-30 
each.

I asked one of their techs once, "So, just how do you refurbish a battery?"

"We charge it,"  he replied.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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