On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:54 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, a shorted cell will be very watery. And, as I remember, soot sucked > up into the hydrometer too. > > Interesting to hear that there is a movement away from Trojan in the > "off-grid" folks. Will have to keep an eye on that. > > "Shotgunning" sounds familiar; they called it "Easter Egging" the last time > I was in tech school. Go for the easiest thing first. We might get lucky. > And it might be "instinctive". > > Maybe the whole battery was sulphated or otherwise no good, not just an > individual cell. I can't understand why defects do not show up with a > hydrometer. Charging and discharging is essentially a transfer of sulpher > from the plates to the electrolyte and vice-versa. If lots of sulpher is > in the water then the batteries are charged, and vice-versa. >
Maybe there was a physical obstruction such that when you pull a sample with a hydrometer, it was only sampling from a small volume, which was correctly charged, but the rest of the electrolyte was separated (electrically and physically) from the top of the cell where the sample was being taken from. -- http://neon-buddha.net _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
