rcnixon
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Did you ask him if leaving a car battery on concrete will make it go bad?
Okay, so it's completely off topic, and non-gun related, but a lead-acid battery will discharge on concrete. It will charge up just fine afterwords, but 12-24 hours and it will be dead as a hammer.
Funny, that. I keep sometimes up to a dozen lead-acid batteries on the garage floor, including the spare "special" battery for my wife's '03 T'bird and they all hold their charge quite nicely for years sometimes. They will lose charge gradually from internal resistance or if the top is dirty with an ionic solution. Back in the '30s and '40s when batteries were marginal, at best, they would lose charge just sitting around regardless of the surface. BTW and again, off topic, Optima's are the best out there today. They are expensive but they are excellent batteries. Oh yeah, if an L/A battery is "as dead as a hammer", it probably will never have the capacity it did before, even if it does take a charge. I've worked with UPSs for thirty years and at the telco, where L/A batteries run the system.
Did you ask him if leaving a car battery on concrete will make it go bad?
Okay, so it's completely off topic, and non-gun related, but a lead-acid battery will discharge on concrete. It will charge up just fine afterwords, but 12-24 hours and it will be dead as a hammer.
Funny, that. I keep sometimes up to a dozen lead-acid batteries on the garage floor, including the spare "special" battery for my wife's '03 T'bird and they all hold their charge quite nicely for years sometimes. They will lose charge gradually from internal resistance or if the top is dirty with an ionic solution. Back in the '30s and '40s when batteries were marginal, at best, they would lose charge just sitting around regardless of the surface. BTW and again, off topic, Optima's are the best out there today. They are expensive but they are excellent batteries. Oh yeah, if an L/A battery is "as dead as a hammer", it probably will never have the capacity it did before, even if it does take a charge. I've worked with UPSs for thirty years and at the telco, where L/A batteries run the system.