[SEL] re dead battery

[Jim Kirkes]

Once some years ago when I was in the Army they sent me to 
mechanics school.  I remember a lecture on batteries in 
which the instructor debunked
the concrete floor discharge idea.  He did say though that 
if a dirty wet battery was placed on a wet concrete floor it 
would probably discharge.  Later when I was back at my 
regular company I happened to put some brand new tank 
batteries on the floor and was promptly sawed on by a 
sergeant who said it would wreck the batteries.  I explained 
what I had learned in school and got sawed on some more and 
wound up getting some wood to put the batteries on.  One of 
the many reasons I did not pursue a military career.

Jim

Jim and Diane Kirkes
Hemet, California U.S.A.
jd.kirkes at verizon.net
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Is there anyone here that won't put a battery on concrete? I 
have customers  that get upset when they see this. They 
think it will"pull the juice out of it".
J.B. Castagnos
Belle Rose, LA
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