Car Battery Construction (Source: Eurobat)
CAR AND DEEP CYCLE BATTERY FAQ
June 5, 2006
Car and deep cycle battery answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), tips, manufacturer's information, references and hyperlinks are contained on this consumer oriented Web site about car, motorcycle, power sports, truck, boat, marine, recreational vehicle, solar, and other starting and deep cycle applications.
Car and Deep Cycle Battery Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 5.6
This consumer oriented FAQ contains answers and information about lead-acid batteries used to start car, motorcycle, truck, boat, recreational vehicle (RV), power sports, motor home, tractor and other engines. It also answers questions about golf cart, EV, traction, motive, solar, standby, stationary, UPS, network, industrial and other lead-acid batteries used in deep cycle applications. It covers charging (and chargers), testing, buying replacement batteries, installing, myths, overnight draining, removing sulfation, storing, jump starting, and other topics about car (starting) and deep cycle batteries. This FAQ was last updated on June 5, 2006 and broken link checked on December 26, 2005.
Battery Manufacturers and Brand Names List
This popular and frequently updated list contains hyperlinks to lead-acid battery manufacturers' and large distributors' Web sites, telephone numbers, battery brand names, replacement selector and fitment guides, and private labeling information. The file size is approximately 133 KBytes. This list was last updated on June 2, 2006 and broken link checked on December 26, 2005.
Battery Information Links List
This frequently updated list contains hyperlinks to product information associated with lead-acid batteries, for example, alternators, cables and wiring products, chargers, converters, desulfators, generators, inverters, isolators, low voltage disconnects, jump starters, regulators, solar and PV, switches, test and monitoring systems, etc. The file size is approximately 137 KBytes. This list was last updated on May 11, 2006 and broken link checked on December 26, 2005.
This frequently updated list contains hyperlinks to reference resources about lead-acid batteries, for example, 42-volt, associations, books, business directories, dealers and distributors, FAQs, glossaries, history, hyperlink lists, magazines, magazine articles, manuals, primers, newsgroups, safety, standards, etc. The file size is approximately 67 KBytes. This list was last updated on May 11, 2006 and broken link checked on December 26, 2005.
Temperature Compensated Battery State-of-Charge (SoC) Table
When printed, this Excel spreadsheet produces a single page that contains table with the Specific Gravity and Open Circuit Voltage measurements by temperature vs. various States-of-Charges. This is for wet Standard (Sb/Sb), wet Low Maintenance (Ca/Sb), wet "Maintenance Free" (Ca/Ca), AGM VRLA (Ca/Ca), Gel Cell VRLA (Ca/Ca), and SLA (Ca/Ca) Car and Deep Cycle lead-acid batteries. The file size is approximately 22 KBytes. This file was last updated on May 6, 2006.
A zipped version of all the current battery related HTML documents, graphics and spreadsheet on this Web site can be easily down loaded to your computer. Just create a directory for the FAQ and unzip into it. The file size is approximately 921 KBytes. This zip file was last updated on June 5, 2006.
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Updates were made to all of the .htm documents with this 5.6 version change to fix a hyperlink bug. I highly recommend that you hyperlink to http://www.batteryfaq.org/ rather than republishing any of these documents because the information could be frequently revised to keep up with the advancements in batteries, battery industry, changing resources, hyperlinks or telephone numbers. Revisions will be indicated with a more recent date or a higher version number. These documents are in the public domain and can be freely reproduced or distributed without permission subject to the "fair use" restrictions below. Attribution is always appreciated, but not required.
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