My Screwy 31
First off let me say I am not stressing over this. It's just a battery, it is only money, it is meeting my overnight needs, but it is displaying strange behavior, and I am curious as to why. So th...
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Quirky behavior can occur with insufficient acid volume plate surface (active) area, or when a just plain bad or crappy-to-begin-with battery. On a lot of these threads I suspect a lot of erratic battery behavior to be due to an accumulator not up to the task for one reason or another.
This is why a "full diagnostic", full carbon pile load test, hydrometer dip and square wave resistance test, is so important. Personally I've not the time nor the patience to screw around babysitting a cranky battery. It's either old or bad and to the smelter it goes, with afterburners at 100%.
Building a good battery is an art form as well as an exercise in engineering. Most generic automotive jar cyclable batteries I have tested in the last 20 years are of "Yugo" reliability and construction. Sad to say but true. Some of the wacko characteristics of these types of batteries are forced upon manufacturers because of market pressure. Build them right and nobody will buy them. It is a niche industry that builds excellent reliable accumulators.
This is why a "full diagnostic", full carbon pile load test, hydrometer dip and square wave resistance test, is so important. Personally I've not the time nor the patience to screw around babysitting a cranky battery. It's either old or bad and to the smelter it goes, with afterburners at 100%.
Building a good battery is an art form as well as an exercise in engineering. Most generic automotive jar cyclable batteries I have tested in the last 20 years are of "Yugo" reliability and construction. Sad to say but true. Some of the wacko characteristics of these types of batteries are forced upon manufacturers because of market pressure. Build them right and nobody will buy them. It is a niche industry that builds excellent reliable accumulators.
