Re: (ET) How do your batteries die? Quietly, nicely, foaming at the mouth<g>!

[tbamc <tbamc gbta net>]

Hi Bob,

I always watered with distilled, and watched water levels carefully.  
Usually charged when pack about 50% discharged.  Did NOT notice much, if 
any, range loss prior to losing a battery.  Typically would go out to 
mow and find no go.  Check pack and find one battery at 4v.  Frustrating 
unless you keep a spare sitting around. 

5 years may by 'good', but I'm greedy and want considerably more.  ;-)

Thanks.

Thon

Bob Rice wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "tbamc" <tbamc gbta net>
> To: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 2:21 AM
> Subject: (ET) How do your batteries die?
>
>
> > I bought a complete set of U.S. Battery batteries about 5 years ago.  
> > Only 1 of those 6 is still alive.  After talking to the  U.S. B. 
> > people, and this list, I think I should have been charging them 
> > harder/longer, but I'm not sure that relates to my question:
> >
> > Every one of the dead batteries read about 4v when it expired, and 
> > couldn't be charged to much over 4v.  This implies to me that a cell 
> > shorted.  I would have expected the more likely scenario would be for 
> > each battery to just get weaker, i.e. still charge to above 6v but 
> > not hold a charge for as long.
> >
> > Am I thinking about this correctly and is my experience typical, or not?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Thon
>   Hi Thon;
>
>   Yur experience IS typical. But ask yurself ; How much did you USE 
> yur Badd-eries? How many miles DID you get out of them, 20k is a 
> decent range, or lifespan. I went through a pack of T105's in about 
> 20k mikes a set of T-145's a bit shorter? But batteries have a 
> perverse anamosity; One dies, and the others think, in their lead 
> lined minds" I'm outta here, too!"In that you got 5 years is pretty 
> good, but you MUST have lost abourt all your range long BEFORE now?  
> Did you water them with store bough Distilled water, keep them 
> charged, etc? It's pretty normal for Newbees to kill off one or two 
> sets as the learning curve develops? Don't feel bad. Hell, the care 
> and feeding of Batteries isn't rocket science. They are like Sheeple; 
> Like to be kept clean, watered and charged. Not much else can you 
> really do!Oh don't run them  DEAD, like car won't move, etc?
>
>    YMMV!
>
>     Bob
>
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