'Question About LEAD LEAD LEAD Acid Batteries

[MEXICOWANDERER]

• 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.
  

[Yaj]

What’s the question?

[Lwiddis]

Very informative. TY