I knew someone would make that comment!
Resistance is futile if < 1 ohm.
Posted on 08/14/2015 7:36:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Get a charger with a desulfation mode and bang it every year.
Sulfation is what kills batteries. The lead plates corrode into nothing.
My “Smart” brand charger has one.
http://www.amazon.com/Pulse-Desulfator-Batteries-Battery-Regenerator/dp/B00IQ5X91I
“I’m just jealous”
And you should be. I’m not saying my old cars are perfect, but I can actually repair them myself (and upgrade the things that aren’t up to snuff, like brakes). A lot of satisfaction turning a wrench on your own car.
I know. I grew up in the desert in California, and we spent all our time building cars in the night auto shop program. We used to pick up all sorts of clean 50-70s cars for a few hundred. We’d fix them up and flip them to keep our main rides running. If I had half the cars I worked on, I could have retired years ago.
It’s funny —had all the time and contacts back then, but no money. Now I have the money, but no time or contacts. Such is life. I still appreciate fine engineering and craftsmanship.
I knew someone would make that comment!
Resistance is futile if < 1 ohm.
Lithium-ion batteries, specifically lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2), the type used in cell phones, have the highest energy density (about 600 Watt-hours per Liter of volume) of any commercially-manufactured battery. While claims have been made of batteries up to 7 times as powerful for a given size, they all have problems that will probably limit their commercial appeal.
We are living in the golden age of battery life, right now.
What? No, that's not true. If do you a lot of cranking, you might have to wait several minutes for the electric double-layer capacitors to charge back up from the internal LiPoFe batteries, but "one shot"? No.
Perhaps these guys don’t want to hassle with investors over control of the product. It happens...............
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Pesky investors. Why can’t they just give you money and go away? Accountants can be a pain, too.
hey- read the replies from fellow engineers who all agree with me
I HAVE a 12 year old honda civic - just replace the original battery this past year.
You can still get Bel Airs, but you can only get Camaro carcasses right now.
Saved her MANY AAA calls, not to mention batteries(the one in her car has to be more than 10 years old)
BTW, I've got a Savana that turned into a rust-bucket WAY before it's time. Of course I too didn't drive it much, but it spent a lot of time in storage...still rusted out(frame/brake-fuel lines, etc), oh, unfortunately the above product did not work on this vehicle, ...it required too many CCA's not saved before the battery buddy kicked in(or off as is the case)...not to mention a lot of ground connections(because of the rust)probably contributed to battery/charging issues with it.
Ok, the lack of acid is always good. But drop-in replacement? How is that any better than regular batteries? You can take your old battery, unclamp the leads, drop in a regular battery, and re-connect the leads. How does this one improve that process?
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