You will get more at the scrap yard than you will from a core charge. Or at lease the scrap yard near me is better than the auto parts store near me. YMMV
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > EVDL Administrator wrote: > >> I'm tinkering with a winter project for which I could use a little medium >> voltage DC, but not much current nor many amp-hours. >> >> I thought of some weary old 8v golf car batteries I've had sitting >> untouched >> and unloved in the garage for several years. They were pretty well >> clapped >> out, down to maybe 20-25 usable amp hours when I parked them there. I >> wondered if they might still have 5 or 10 amp hours in them even after >> sitting all this time. >> > > Roland had some great advice, if you are in the mood to "play" with them. > With a lot of work, you literally *can* open the case, pull out the plates, > and service them as he described. > > But my suggestion would be Dr. McCoy's advice. "He dead, Jim". :-) Recycle > the dead bodies, and use the proceeds to buy some new/used batteries that > actually work. > > -- > Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more > violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move > in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein > -- > Lee Hart -- See my Xmas projects at www.sunrise-ev.com/projects.htm > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131217/d8a11f91/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
