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Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Originally Posted By: chiefsfan1
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Get the $48 Walmart battery, you live in the land of long car-battery life.
Maybe, we get hot but not like you do. Then we plunge below zero in the winter months.
Batteries like the cold, but not the heat. The way I see it for me is, if I get 3 years out of O'Reilly's $150 battery and 2 years out of Walmarts $50 battery, I'm ahead.
Batteries do not like the cold. The impedance rises substantially, so they cannot produce the power at as high a voltage.
Slow reactions due to cold weather means slow degrading reactions. A hot battery will indeed have faster side reactions that degrade the materials, but neither is good. Cold is bad in terms of operations, hot is bad in terms of sitting.
I wouldn't call five years on a battery the "land of long life"...
Originally Posted By: chiefsfan1
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Get the $48 Walmart battery, you live in the land of long car-battery life.
Maybe, we get hot but not like you do. Then we plunge below zero in the winter months.
Batteries like the cold, but not the heat. The way I see it for me is, if I get 3 years out of O'Reilly's $150 battery and 2 years out of Walmarts $50 battery, I'm ahead.
Batteries do not like the cold. The impedance rises substantially, so they cannot produce the power at as high a voltage.
Slow reactions due to cold weather means slow degrading reactions. A hot battery will indeed have faster side reactions that degrade the materials, but neither is good. Cold is bad in terms of operations, hot is bad in terms of sitting.
I wouldn't call five years on a battery the "land of long life"...
