Re: Speaking of car batteries

"Lu R" <who me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Noddy" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Lu R" <whome@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Yeah  and the shop imagined seeing the polarity reversed too huh?
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>> The "shop" will tell you whatever they think you're stupid enough to 
>> swallow in order to avoid giving you your money back, and in your case
it 
>> looks like they think you were pretty God-damned stupid :)
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>> Regards,
>> Noddy.
> hey ****wit...you reckon I can walk on water according to this..:)
> quote from http://www.europulse.com/eng/technology/index.shtml
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> Another phenomenon in motive power applications is the "dead cell".
During 
> a
> very deep discharge cycle, some plates within a cell will reverse 
> polarity.
> During recharge these cells must first receive energy to return to a 
> "zero"
> state, and then begin recharging once proper polarity is achieved. The
> surrounding cells have efficiently recharged, as they did not first have

> to
> return to a zero state. However the cells with reversed polarity plates
> depress battery voltage, causing the charger to provide strong current. 
> The
> effect is severe boiling of the fully
> charged cells and potentially mechanical damage to the battery.
>

Umm, didnt you say that you flattened the battery (IE ZERO voltage!!!)
then 
recharged it (with the wrong charger leads on it by the sounds of it) and 
then installed it to the car?!?!?