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On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:38:18 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
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Statement: A charged battery won't freeze.
Correction: Yes, but at a lower temp.

If you're curious, you can research it. I'm not curious
about that particular point.

Lack of curiosity is a sign of low intelligence.

I don't know why you say that. I really don't care though :-)


Meanwhile, a fully charged battery won't freeze anywhere in the
continental US. - Of course if you store it on the polar caps of Mars
it will likely freeze.


There are colder places on Earth. Listen to some speak of their spouses.

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On Jul 31, 10:37*am, (Larry W) wrote:
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In the old days, batteries had hard rubber cases and setting them on
concrete could result in a ruined battery. Modern Batteries are not
made of rubber any longer, so it really doesn't matter. I usually
put mine on a piece of wood just out of habit, I guess. The more
important issue is to make sure you keep it charged and the water at
the proper level.

In the _really_ old days some battery cases were even made of wood.

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* * *Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler.

* * *Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonesta
r. org

Wood yes: Gosh had forgotten that!
And then worked for years with telephone office batteries made of
glass.
Then later clear plastic; so that one could see plate growth/residue
etc.
Thanks for the memory!

Damn that popped a memory bubble. When I was a kid we went on some tour
of the local phone company. Vague images of some basement with all those
batteries IIR.

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Meanwhile, a fully charged battery won't freeze anywhere in the
continental US. - Of course if you store it on the polar caps of Mars
it will likely freeze.


There are colder places on Earth. Listen to some speak of their spouses.

Official weather data shows awfully little at most presence anywhere
outside Antarctica anytime of outdoor temperature close to or colder than
what was quoted earlier in this thread as being what it takes to freeze a
fully charged lead-acid battery.

On the other hand, my father has his ideas as to what are the three
coldest places anywhere humans experience. And he talked about someone
who moved from Chicago to Yellowknife, at least in part to get better
weather. ("Not much improvement.")

3rd-coldest: The bus stop on Michigan Ave in Chicago where my father at
one time had to wait for a bus to go to school.

2nd-coldest: An outhouse in rural northern Wisconsin on a bad cold windy
day in January.

Coldest: The little lump of pig iron in Osama bin Laden's chest, that
Osama calls a heart.

Back to Chicago and Yellowknife (Yellowknife did not make the list): I
know someone else who used to live in Chicago, and when I told him this he
knew where Yellowknife was. He said that the fellow who moved from
Chicago to Yellowknife made a slight improvement, because 50 below is not
as cold as that icy evil bitter wind that blows over Lake Michigan on its
way to Chicago from the depths of Hell.

Another bit on Yellowknife, according to a newspaper article in the
Philadelphia Inquirer several years ago: Yellowknife has parking meters.
But parking is free. (IIRC) The charge is for plugging in the electric
dipstick and the electric blanket to drape over the engine and the battery
so that the car can start again.
They also talk about tires "going square" - as in freezing with the flat
spots that were where the tires contacted the ground when the car was
parked.

I also remember that there was one day in June 2007 that Yellowknife had
the highest temperature recorded in Canada that day, according to a
Canadian that I know.

- Don Klipstein )