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From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: Lead Acid batteries & Concrete?
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In article <1993Apr21.204556.21262@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> camter28@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carter Ames) writes:
>
>  Why does a lead acid battery discharge and become dead (totally unuseable)
>when stored on a concrete floor?  
>  I decided to bring the battery in from the lawn mower and the motorcycle
>from the unheated garage this year, *to preserve them* and I just
>went to use them and noticed that not only do they not work, but 
>they act like the two terminals are shorted.  I asked a friend
>and he said that you should never do that, 'cause it ruins them,
>but he couldn't tell me why.

This topic was beaten to death a year or so ago.

The concrete is not the problem. 

Lead-acid batteries often fail from disuse (not being charged for a long
time), but there's no way the concrete floor could be the cause of the
problem.

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