Choice of Batteries - Which Would You Choose?
Need expert advise from those that know batteries best. I have an 05 PW Excel that has room for just one 12v house battery in the outside compartment. It's a wet cell, and just as soon get away from t...
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"Every car you listed had a vent system. The problem is aftermarket cheap batteries did not support most vent systems"
Ain't it a hoot? I did price an OEM Bosch replacement battery in 1966. SIXTY THREE DOLLARS! Maybe .001% of the VW's in the world had vent capable replacements fitted. So they spent 10 years (or a lot more than that) with unvented batteries.
An unvented FIVE PERCENT ANTIMONY battery in a small AIRTIGHT space is bad enough. Now factor in antimony poisoning of the negative plates, 3rd world maintenance, and all the rest and it becomes a joke. Not the VW issue. The comparison between that and using a recombinant AGM inside an RV.
What is NOT funny is lead poisoning of children with ridiculously out of whack VW beetles. Generator charging frequently exceeded 15.0 volts. Batteries remained far past their lifetime and the inside of many beetles looked like junkyard rejects, and smelled like a hot springs.
I do wish lead would go away except perhaps for stained glass window construction. But this is a long way from dancing and shouting that lead is near radioactive in lethality, therefore any potential source of it must be kept out in the barn. In Mexico Chupacabras lurk, in the USA old ladies look under the bed, and alarmism is a moneymaker and hot topic. Always. Unsafe at any speed killed the Corvair, while VW's continued to spin on their top. Common sense? Shirley You Jest!
Ain't it a hoot? I did price an OEM Bosch replacement battery in 1966. SIXTY THREE DOLLARS! Maybe .001% of the VW's in the world had vent capable replacements fitted. So they spent 10 years (or a lot more than that) with unvented batteries.
An unvented FIVE PERCENT ANTIMONY battery in a small AIRTIGHT space is bad enough. Now factor in antimony poisoning of the negative plates, 3rd world maintenance, and all the rest and it becomes a joke. Not the VW issue. The comparison between that and using a recombinant AGM inside an RV.
What is NOT funny is lead poisoning of children with ridiculously out of whack VW beetles. Generator charging frequently exceeded 15.0 volts. Batteries remained far past their lifetime and the inside of many beetles looked like junkyard rejects, and smelled like a hot springs.
I do wish lead would go away except perhaps for stained glass window construction. But this is a long way from dancing and shouting that lead is near radioactive in lethality, therefore any potential source of it must be kept out in the barn. In Mexico Chupacabras lurk, in the USA old ladies look under the bed, and alarmism is a moneymaker and hot topic. Always. Unsafe at any speed killed the Corvair, while VW's continued to spin on their top. Common sense? Shirley You Jest!
