'Question About LEAD LEAD LEAD Acid Batteries
- Calcium as an additive seems to accelerate hardened lead sulfate which means no removal or desulfation
- Accelerate means hardening in perhaps one-tenth the time as compared to lead antimony. This is not the exact chemistry but it will suffice as being more understandable in general
- Hybrid Plates is the new norm for car type RV batteries
- 2% antimony positive plates and calcium additive negative plates
- Uses less water than high 5% antimony true deep cycle battery
- Best plate paste is colloidal lead in high percentage with a minimum of premium quality binders. This means using high purity grids
- Expensive paste. Expensive binders
- No substitute for thick plates
- Many manufacturers BS their way with fairy tales but refuse to divulge positive plate thicknesss which demands better paste, better grids, and much more quality control
- More and thinner plates is much inferior and much cheaper
- That makes choosing a battery by weight alone irrational
- Using computer laser robotics, Lifeline safely stuffs fewer but thicker plates and thinner but higher capacity matting into their batteries
- Plate and separator alignment precise alignment are hyper-critical
- Acid and electrolysis eats things for a living. A thick plate LIVES longer than a thinner plate
- A critical factor of a better battery is how much abuse it can withstand yet recover
- Golf car batteries, how much of a fight they offer when equalizing.
