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Francesca_Knowl
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May 17, 2013

Paper about virgin vs. recycled lead in batteries?

Sometime in the last week somebody posted a thread linking to a paper about the effects of using recycled lead for VRLA batteries. I forgot to subscribe and now can't find it...and, yes, I "Did a s...
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Francesca_Knowl
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May 18, 2013
Please bear with me as a complete novice, but the way I read the paper is sorta the other way around- that flooded batteries don't CARE as much about virgin lead as AGMs do, so there isn't as great a loss of life/efficiency/whatever as seems to occur with the AGMs.

Seems like a question of value-for-the-dollar to me....

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