[Elecraft] Sealed Lead Calcium vs. SLA Battery Charging?

[Charles Greene]

At 12:53 PM 4/20/2002 -0400, Tom Crites wrote:
>Does anyone know if the charging characteristics of sealed lead calcium
>batteries are the same as those for sealed lead acid (SLA)?  I have a 7.0 Ah
>lead calcium battery that I use for my model airplane electric starter and
>I'd like to use it with Don Brown's solar charge controller to power my K2.
>Thanks,
>73,
>Tom,


I'm not familiar with that particular battery, but several years ago the 
manufacturers started using batteries with a lead calcium alloy for the 
grid vice the previous lead antimony alloy for the grid.  They called it a 
lead calcium battery.  Their performance is similar.
73, Chas, W1CG