"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in
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Nobody sugggested that fusing isn;t necessary. Just that is does not
necessarily protect against a shorted cell. I had a cell short once
and all it did was lower the voltage of the battery and discharge the
parallel battery. No dramatic event, just dead batteries.


If you had measured the voltage across the internal straps on the "shorted
cell", I doubt you would have found it to be zero, like a shorted cell must
be. You'd have found a "dead cell", one whos acid and lead had been
converted into lead sulphate crystals that can't be charged.

Big difference.

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Larry