Introduction Originally, lead-acid batteries consisted of pure lead grids; but lead is very soft, difficult to work with and to transport. Gaston Planté, who is credited with the invention of the lead-acid battery, refined the lead plate. A modern form of pure lead plates, the Planté plate, named after him, although expensive to manufacture, is […]
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The Lead-Acid Battery is a sacrificial design with unavoidable degradation over time. The inside of a battery cell is a highly chemically active environment. Lead is soft, so in order to make the plates more rigid, in most of the early designs, antimony was added as a hardening agent. The percentage of antimony was high, […]
The Battery Blarney Duo are joined by industry experts Al Warner and Dan Lambert to discuss lead acid, lithium, nickel cadmium and other prominent battery chemistries and their proper applications. They discuss the pros and cons of these popular chemistries as well as the prospect of other interesting options, like that of zinc manganese. The […]