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From: vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl)
Subject: Re: Lead Acid batteries & Concrete?
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 19:01:52 GMT
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In article <9649@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>, alany@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Alan Yelvington) writes:
|> The battery goes dead primarily becaust the floor is cold.  The temperature
|> combined with self-discharge promotes sulfation which ruins the plates of 
|> the battery.  I strongly suspect that the only reason the battery doesn't
|> go dead as quickly on a dirt surface is because cement tends to be quite
|> cooler.

Please explain how cement is able to maintain a lower average temperature
than dirt.  Sheesh.......


