Walmart Battery Lifespan?
My Walmart Battery seems to be having issues. I'm having to add water more frequently and it seems finicky about keeping a charge. I've been keeping the battery in my garage hooked to a maintainer w...
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"It's not like buying one battery is a huge investment...It's a 24 month battery. It's 30 months old. If it isn't doing what you think it should do get a new one..."
For me, it's twenty percent of my monthly social security check.
It's the INSULT that batteries of 30-years ago were light-years more dependable and long lived than the same brand batteries today. The INSTANT a company shifts from private ownership to the public domain, the bean counters escape their cages and start running the show. What I saw when I autopsied that Maxx Enegizer Wal-Mart 120 dollar battery gagged me.
Porous "solid lead" strap connectors, 6-year old's playground mud pie plate pasting, badly aligned plates, Afghani grade workmanship on the envelope separator sealing, entire chunks of greened positive plate material in the sediment chambers. The plate paste was a freakin' joke. Uneven consistancy. I did not use a penetration durometer, but I am tempted to believe the paste batch was used far beyond it's max mix use life. This is a hustle grade of assembly with zero supervision or quality control. We don't need Chinese batteries, Johnson Controls would be impossible to underachieve. There. I've said it.
If I could find a RAMCAR hybrid MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES, I would choose it 100 to one over what I saw. Quality independent manufacturers (and there were some outstanding candidates in the Seattle area), would be a better bet, and not even in a malaria fever induced nightmare could I envision Trojan producing something as bad as what I saw.
There are far too many ways to make an inferior junk battery. Now WHY do you suppose the terms of warranty for batteries has changed......hmmmm....?
For me, it's twenty percent of my monthly social security check.
It's the INSULT that batteries of 30-years ago were light-years more dependable and long lived than the same brand batteries today. The INSTANT a company shifts from private ownership to the public domain, the bean counters escape their cages and start running the show. What I saw when I autopsied that Maxx Enegizer Wal-Mart 120 dollar battery gagged me.
Porous "solid lead" strap connectors, 6-year old's playground mud pie plate pasting, badly aligned plates, Afghani grade workmanship on the envelope separator sealing, entire chunks of greened positive plate material in the sediment chambers. The plate paste was a freakin' joke. Uneven consistancy. I did not use a penetration durometer, but I am tempted to believe the paste batch was used far beyond it's max mix use life. This is a hustle grade of assembly with zero supervision or quality control. We don't need Chinese batteries, Johnson Controls would be impossible to underachieve. There. I've said it.
If I could find a RAMCAR hybrid MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES, I would choose it 100 to one over what I saw. Quality independent manufacturers (and there were some outstanding candidates in the Seattle area), would be a better bet, and not even in a malaria fever induced nightmare could I envision Trojan producing something as bad as what I saw.
There are far too many ways to make an inferior junk battery. Now WHY do you suppose the terms of warranty for batteries has changed......hmmmm....?
