Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Dead golf cart battery to recharge
View Single Post
 
Old 08-29-2024, 06:42 AM
Normal's Avatar
Normal Normal is offline
Soaring Eagle member
Join Date: Jun 2021
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,497
Thanks: 5,369
Thanked 1,839 Times in 898 Posts
Default Wet

Quote:
Originally Posted by LeRoySmith View Post
I wonder why? I've been sitting car batteries on a block of wood all my life and I'm not sure why or how sitting then in concrete discharge them. I'm confident my dad is grandpa told me to do this when I was a kid and I've never looked back.

I bet someone knows the actual answer.
I think it’s a moisture thing and the ease of electron movement to the floor? Heat is a worse culprit though. Just like in a lab, the warmer it is, the more the chance for chemical reactions. It’s a better environment for electron valance migration.
__________________
Everywhere

.. though we cannot, while we feel deeply, reason shrewdly, yet I doubt if, except when we feel deeply, we can ever comprehend fully."—Ruskin

Borta bra men hemma bäst