Antimony Poisoning Of Flooded Negative Plates
It's a fact of life that maintaining too high a float voltage encourages the migration of antimony from the positive plates to the sponge lead on the negative grids. Antimonial poisoning shortens...
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What I mean is progressive excess float voltage does a lot of damage. What is "excessive"?
A certain voltage will render electrolyte a full specific density. A very specific amount of current will maintain that density. Anything less, the specific gravity slumps. Anything more, antimony starts packing its bags.
Note the crucial intention of the word PROGRESSIVE. Excessive charging voltages held for inordinately long periods of time will also cause antimony to take a hike.
This is merely something to keep in mind. There is no magic point of yes/no.
But I am reading here of charging voltage values that are just plain too high. An antimony poor battery exhibits classic need to significantly overcharge to reach full gravity density.
Sometimes education must include the picking of nits. With information an individual can select appropriate battery maintenance protocols.
I have according to Concorde, stirred up a hornet's nest. Engineering is preparing a reply to my questioning of their very specific battery maintenance values. When I get a reply I shall cut n paste.
I might be old, but I'm grouchy...
A certain voltage will render electrolyte a full specific density. A very specific amount of current will maintain that density. Anything less, the specific gravity slumps. Anything more, antimony starts packing its bags.
Note the crucial intention of the word PROGRESSIVE. Excessive charging voltages held for inordinately long periods of time will also cause antimony to take a hike.
This is merely something to keep in mind. There is no magic point of yes/no.
But I am reading here of charging voltage values that are just plain too high. An antimony poor battery exhibits classic need to significantly overcharge to reach full gravity density.
Sometimes education must include the picking of nits. With information an individual can select appropriate battery maintenance protocols.
I have according to Concorde, stirred up a hornet's nest. Engineering is preparing a reply to my questioning of their very specific battery maintenance values. When I get a reply I shall cut n paste.
I might be old, but I'm grouchy...
