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Originally Posted by billyd
If you placed the batteries on wood, you should not have had any problem. If you placed the batteries on concrete, the batteries will tend to loose their charge. Take Care.
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PLEASE GET OVER THIS HERESY!!!!!!!
Every time someone tells me that batteries discharge faster on concrete, I go ballistic!!!!! This is total rubbish and a first class 'Old Wives' Tale' if I ever heard one.
One of the first things that we did in RV Tech certification school was a little experiment with batteries. We took 2 identical, fully charged (13.2VDC)12Volt wet cell, deep cycle batteries and placed them on the floor with nothing attached to them. One was on the bare concrete and the other was elevated on 2 blocks of 4 X 4.
The last thing we did right before graduation (10 weeks later) was to test the voltage in both batteries. Guess what?.....................
THEY WERE IDENTICALLY 11.3 VOTS EACH (both having self-discharged from their inherent internal resistance. )
PLEASE, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT LEAVING A CHARGED BATTERY ON A BARE CONCRETE FLOOR WILL HAVE NO GREATER EFFECT ON THE DISCHARGE OF THIS BATTERY THAN LEAVING IT ON A SHELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whew,
I'm done now!!!!!!!!!!
