Capt. NealŪ wrote:
"Gary Schafer" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:33:47 -0400, Capt. NealŪ
wrote:
"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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Capt. NealŪ wrote:
Never, at any time, does electricity flow THROUGH the internals of
a battery
Utter ********.
Utter truth. A lead/acid yacht battery stores electrical potential in
the plates via chemical reaction.
If there was a circuit within the battery it would not take or store
a charge.
CN
Maybe you would like to explain to us how current gets from one cell
in a battery to the next so that each cell gets charged when a charger
is hooked to the battery.
Duh! The plates are hardwired together and connected to either the positive
or negative poles, but not to each other, as would be the case in the minds
of those claiming an internal circuit.
I am also still waiting for you to explain how one discharged cell in
a battery gets charged from the other cells in the battery by only
putting a load on the battery. As I am sure you know that discharged
cell will be trying to get charged with it's positive terminal hooked
to the negative terminal of the cell that is supposed to be doing the
charging.
Duh, since the positive plates and the negative plates in each cell are
hard wired together with all the other positive and negative plates but
not hardwired negative to positive and vice versa, to make a circuit as
some claim, and if one cell is discharged to say 1.5 volts while connected
to cells charged to 2.2 volts in a circuit with some sort of load between
the positive and negative battery terminals the discharged cell takes on
a charge just as if a battery charger were connected. The discharged
cell doesn't know anything other than the higher voltage is reversing it's
chemical reaction from a discharging reaction to a charging reaction.
If the battery was a conductor internally, tell me why as you charge
a discharged battery the amperage it takes gets less and less until it
tapers down to almost nothing. If the cells were connected by a circuit
inside the amperage would be constant.
CN
If "since the positive plates and the negative plates in each cell are
hard wired together with all the other positive and negative plates
but not hardwired negative to positive and vice versa" how does a
battery ever acheive 12 volts. That would put all the cells in parallel
and since a lead acid wet cell is 2.2 volts, on average, the battery
would only have 2.2 volts.
krj