Recycled lead sucks.
Trojan industrial and Rolls. Would not use anything but virgin lead in their flagship industrial batteries.
It costs more to purify contaminated lead than what virgin lead costs outright.
East Penn has their own lead smelter but it can extract just so much percentage of unwanted additives. Pure lead would cost near a dollar an ounce to achieve
Pure lead for AGM batteries have trace amounts of Silver and tin added.
Good golf car batteries have less contaminated grids and higher purity plate paste.
Scrubber batteries use the same grade of lead as golf car batteries
Industrial batteries demand superior grade grids and paste.
The vendor I represented lucked out. He happened to encounter Filipino batteries with high grade Philippine lead and paste. He sold more than five thousand with no warranty returns. Mexican LTH brand used to be like that until economics forced them into the cheap at any cost race.
The retail car jar market is cutthroat.145 pound 8-D tar top batteries used to have 900 CCA. Now 1600 CCA is the rule. Can you figure out the significance?,
