EddieWalker
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Amazon.com: NOCO HM318BKS Group 24-31 Snap-Top Battery Box for Automotive, Marine, and RV Batteries: Automotive
This looks like a good deal!!!
This looks like a good deal!!!
Thanks for making feel better about my battery maintenance or lack thereof.
I infrequently check my no-maintenance batteries and find the acid level low because they are no maintenance right?
We have all gotten sloppy with battery care compared to 40 years ago and we should not be.
Thanks for the reminder
...This looks like a good deal!!!
I always love it when you guys in the more temperate climes say its cold it when its +30F![]()
Looks like a really good deal.Thanks for pointing it out.
I just ordered one to hold a spare battery for my emergency generator.
The battery is going to sit on a concrete floor, and the advice is always to never put a battery on a concrete floor. For less than $9 the problem is solved.
From homepower.com, concrete floors are a good place to store a modern battery:
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However, this legend is historically based in fact. The first lead-acid batteries consisted of glass cells that were enclosed in tar-lined wooden boxes. A damp concrete floor could cause the wood to swell, breaking the glass inside.
The Edison cell (i.e. the nickel-iron battery) that preceded the rubber-cased battery was encased in steel. Those that weren't isolated in crates would discharge into concrete quite easily. Later battery cases used primitive hardened rubber, which was somewhat porous and could contain lots of carbon. A moist concrete floor combined with the carbon in the battery cases could create electrical current between the cells, discharging them.
None of this is a problem with modern batteries — safe in their hard plastic shells. In fact, concrete is generally an excellent surface on which to place a battery bank. The electrolyte in a battery sitting on an extremely cold floor with very hot air around it could stratify, causing damage from sulfation; whereas concrete provides good thermal mass to buffer any temporarily extreme temperatures in the battery compartment.
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I guess you don't know about AGM (Absorbed Glass Mat) batteries. I have been using them for many years.That is why there really is no such thing as a maintenance free battery. Charging breaks down the water and produces H2 and O2. (why there is that warning about charging batteries). You don't lose the acid just the water, so add distilled water to maintenance free batteries and they will last even longer.
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