[Vwdiesel] Battery talks for beginners # 2.

[Sandy Cameron]

At 03:13 PM 3/8/05 -0800, Hagar wrote:


Nickle-Iron battery
>----NOTHING  would destroy the thing  ---except electrolytic current to the
case puncturing it. 
>As long as the case was ok and the plates were there ?---    you got a
cell.     

That explains why mine are in those nice teak crates. To isolate the SS cell
cases from each other and ground.! Also enough space underneath to keep them
out of the bilge water (they're marine batteries)

Sandy