T&T: Batteries

[Arild Jensen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Bell  Let's see if Arild can
> come up with more details, he might well be able to sort this out.

REPLY
Sorry Gary, its winter and I seem to have a serious case of CRS.
The name of the person and the battery brand escapes me.

We were talking about boats and he mentioned selling batteries in Vancouver.
He claimed that his brand had better Amp hours capacity because they
adjusted the SG to optimize it. Vancouver is cool. I wonder how such a
battery would do if it was installed on a boat that went to Baja Mexico.

Another poster mentioned something I had forgotten from my school days.
Adjusting the SG for temperature range.
I'm not sure if this is just within the range indicated on the thermometer
scale in  the better grade of Hydrometers or if the acid is actually
stronger for use in Northern areas.
As the snow birds among you know, a frozen battery loses power compared to
one that is at room temp.
Increasing the SG would compensate for winter use and where the summer temp
doesn't get excessive.

Arild