Then I was misinformed. I never encountered those brands for automotive use and admit I was not involved in mechanic-ing for marine or other products. I read that in a trade rag. I can't comment on what "big" meant in 1986. And in retrospect, it is not as if battery making is some secret art, so I am not really surprised just mollified. Still Exide made the Diehards and interstates which were marketed as if they were standing alone and above others; so it was interesting for me to learn they were not special in their manufacture, just their specifications.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Ross wrote: > >> In the eighties, not counting Yuasa who only made motorcycle batteries >> then, for a time there was only one PbSO4 battery manufacturer - Exide. >> All of them Interstate, Diehard, Exide, every single one, was made to >> spec >> by Exide. If Dies hared and Interstates were really better it was only >> because they spec'd them to be better. Nothing much has changed there are >> just a few more manufacturers. So the quality and warranty issues are all >> on the people specifying there design, selling them. >> > > No; there were dozens of manufacturers in the USA alone; hundreds more in > the world. Lead-acid is a very old simple technology, so lots of people > made them. > > In the EV world; Trojan, Hawker, East Penn Mfg Co, and ESB immediately > come to mind as big manufacturers in the 1980's. > -- > Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily > available, they will create their own problems. -- Scott Adams > -- > 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/20140114/c365b3e1/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)
