Storing an Auto Battery?

[jamesgangnc]

chemistry/physics.

Find someone that can use it. They don't last and you will forget to keep it charged.

[salty]

I doubt it ever gets cold enough anywhere in the continental United States to freeze a fully charged car battery. If you disagree, please provide cites.

As I pointed out, storing a battery in a warm place will shorten it's lifespan.

[salty]

chemistry/physics.

How many times were you dropped on your head as a child, Rod?

[stan]

Wood yes: Gosh had forgotten that! And then worked for years with telephone office batteries made of glass. Then later clear plastic; so that one could see plate growth/residue etc. Thanks for the memory!

[Stormin Mormon]

Statement: A charged battery won't freeze. Correction: Yes, but at a lower temp.

If you're curious, you can research it. I'm not curious about that particular point.

[Rod Speed]

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Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.

[salty]

Lack of curiosity is a sign of low intelligence.

Meanwhile, a fully charged battery won't freeze anywhere in the continental US. - Of course if you store it on the polar caps of Mars it will likely freeze.

[HeyBub]

It'll freeze if you put it in the right kind of refrigerator, anywhere in the U.S.!

A fully-charged battery will freeze somewhere around -75°F. At a 50% charge, it'll freeze at about +5°F. Further, a fully-charged battery will loose about 1% of its charge per day at room temperature.

[stan]

Two points.

Relative living in Middle East for a few years found the high temperatures really deteriorated his auto batteries! Often with simmer temps close to 50 deg. C ( 130 F) one of his lasted only about 15 months!

When a bttery is discharged, or partially so, it a can freeze more easily. My neighbour, who works with a to-site rental equipment company has just moved back from western Canada (Alberta etc.) and says that he has seen the occasional frozen battery. What usually would happen is that equipemt would break down, typically, say, the elctricity generator at a construction site. The operator/renter would run down the battery trying to restart the equipment. It would be later, or next day before my neighbour could get somebody out from the city to effect a repair and the flattened battery might then have frozen, during very cold weather.

[Ralph Mowery]

temperatures really deteriorated his auto batteries! Often with simmer temps close to 50 deg. C ( 130 F) one of his lasted only about 15 months!

When a bttery is discharged, or partially so, it a can freeze more easily. My neighbour, who works with a to-site rental equipment company has just moved back from western Canada (Alberta etc.) and says that he has seen the occasional frozen battery. What usually would happen is that equipemt would break down, typically, say, the elctricity generator at a construction site. The operator/renter would run down the battery trying to restart the equipment. It would be later, or next day before my neighbour could get somebody out from the

From one of the battery companies I found this:

Can a battery freeze? The only way that a battery can freeze is if it is left in a state of partial or complete discharged. As the state of charge in a battery decreases, the electrolyte becomes more like water and the freezing temperature increases. The freezing temperature of the electrolyte in a fully charged battery is -92.0oF. At a 40% state of charge, electrolyte will freeze if the temperature reaches approximately 16.0oF.

[Stormin Mormon]

Low functioning people tend to draw incorrect conclusions. "I'm not curious about that particular point" does not speak to the rest of my life. A real logical failure, on your part. "Stormy hates green pickles, therefore he doesn't eat any food at all" would be an example of your logical technique.

[Stormin Mormon]

Thanks for the field report. Nothing like real world experience.

I loved your double meaning "simmer temperatures". That's good!

[Stormin Mormon]

Sure, a fully charged battery can freeze. If it's taken below -92F.

[HeyBub]

Right. Sherlock Holmes opined that the mind is like a closet. If you fill it with irrelevant stuff, there's either no room for the new or you've got to discard something previously retained.

I, for example, have no memory of anything before the fifth grade.

[salty]

Stormy believes in god, therefore he is unable to think logically.

His own ability to think is so weak, that he must have his thoughts given to him by a religion.

[salty]

Of course, everything he said validates and reinforces what I said, dimwit.

He points out that discharged batteries may freeze. That's essentially what I said. I said that fully charged batteries don't freeze. At least not anywhere in the continental United States. His examples of batteries freezing were batteries that were run down. Hence my advoce that you keep batteries in a cold place, and KEEP THEM CHARGED TO PROTECT AGAINST FREEZING.

I also said that colder temps prolong the life of battereis by slowing the chemical reaction. He says that his relatives in the middle east found this to be true as well.

[salty]

Nobody, including me every said that a battery could not freeze if exposed to a low enough temperature. What I said was a battery would not freeze from normal winter temperatures as long asyou kept it charged up.

So, when was the last time it got down top -92F where you live?

[salty]

Sherlock Holmes was a dope addict. You only use something like 15% of your brain mass. There's plenty of room to store more, if you excercise you mind enough to make use of more of the available room.

[HeyBub]

My doctor keeps saying I should exercise more. I keep telling him: "Cut the exercise crap; I want pills!"

[Red Green]

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I don't know why you say that. I really don't care though :-)

There are colder places on Earth. Listen to some speak of their spouses.