RE: Battery question

["Eppinger.Michael" <Eppinger.Michael@domain.elided>]

Rob,
I believe that the terminal posts can break off internally inside the
battery, if the posts are abused.  This might be what has happened to you.


Epp
The Scout Ranch 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert H. Hughes [SMTP:robhughes100@domain.elided]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 17, 1998 7:03 PM
> To:	Harvesters
> Subject:	Battery question
> 
> Harvesters,
> 
> Has anyone ever had a battery go bad in any way other than the usual?  I
> mean, every time I've had a battery go bad, it manifests itself by
> increasing difficulty cranking the engine, until it just won't go.  Or
> sometimes, on a first cold morning, it's just suddenly dead.
> 
> But have you ever had a battery 'break'?  Can the plates inside the
> battery come loose, or can the battery develop an internal short?  An
> intermittent open in the circuit?
> 
> I'm experiencing some strange electrical problems that *seem* like there
> is an intermittent opening *in* the battery somehow.
> 
> With tight connections all around, relatively new, heavy (2) gauge
> cables, and clean terminals, I'm out of ideas.
> 
> Rob H.
>