Battery on the ground

Steve,

If the battery is dirty, then that will cause a drain of the battery's charge. Place the battery on a wooden board or coke case.

Besides, how long do you plan leaving the battery on the gound?

W. Kirk Crawford Tularosa, New Mexico

Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote in article ...

It was actually true of the old hard-rubber cased batteries.

Electrons WOULD leak through the porous case to ground - eventually discharging the battery.

It is NOT true of today's batteries.

"W. Kirk Crawford" wrote: If the battery is dirty, then that will cause a drain of the battery's charge. Place the battery on a wooden board or coke case. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If the battery has enough dirt on the outside to conduct electricity, the drain will take place across the top. Setting it on a board or coke case will have no effect. The bottom of the battery could be in contact with a copper stake driven into the earth with no effect. It's not in the circuit.

I have heard that if you sit a battery on the ground or concrete that it will lose its charge faster. Is this true?

Steve

Yes, in the Winter. Doesn't have to be cold enough to freeze, just cold enough to get stratified layers of acid concentration in there.

You ARE joking, right? Martin

Are you *'s alter-ego? Martin

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Like some other things I have heard over many, many years I believe this has evolved. I think the rule to not place storage batteries directly on the concrete but on wood instead was because the leaked acid would severely damage the floor. I don't think it originally had anything to do with the batteries discharging. If someone saw a dead battery sitting on concrete with a batch of corrosion all over the bottom, it was easy to believe the concrete had caused the battery to go dead.

Don Young

I'm sixty, and learn stuff every day. I love it. All my life, I've believed this. Always sat my batteries on a piece of 2 x 6 on concrete. Good, one less thing to do.

Steve

attery on the ground or concrete that it

always seen this story; the only thing I could think of is that damp concrete definitely exudes some sort of alkali vapor; leave a piece of aluminum in a damp garage all winter and see all the crud it accumulates. maybe that neutralizes the acid in the battery, although if it's in the air i don't see what good a piece of plywood would do unless it was wide enough that the battery was in its own microclimate.

I'm in the same age bracket as Steve and believe in the acid separating from the water in strata due to chilling it. Ionic flow must take place for battery operation to take place. Without the acid mixed in evenly, only small areas of the plates can conduct electrons. If only 5% is available, the effective resistance is excessive and makes it look dead.

Martin

Mart>>> I have heard that if you sit a battery on the ground or concrete that it

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question you have is addressed under "battery myths", there is also excellent info on battery safety practices on the same site. It is kept up to date to address changes in technology, at least thus far anyway. regards, Joe.