[Milsurplus] Lead Acid Batteries

[Peter Gottlieb]

You missed the point.  The whole art of engineering is applying the most 
appropriate technology for the intended application.  In this case the point is 
not that lead acid batteries are no good, but rather that the choice of that 
technology in the military turned out to be a poor one.

Sitting under your desk in a controlled environment in float standby service in 
a mass-market UPS, they are fantastic and clearly the number one choice.

Rough environmental extremes, uncontrolled charge/discharge regimes, long 
storage in random states of charge, and requiring frequent transport?  Entirely 
different story!

In the short list you mention, for every application lead acid batteries have 
characteristics that make them either the best choice or amongst the good 
choices.  However, they are one of many viable battery technologies and in a lot 
of other applications they will not perform as well as other technologies.

Peter


Greg Werstiuk wrote:
> I guess nobody ever told the manufacturers of the batteries nor the
> manufacturers of the many thousands of models of equipment using sealed
> lead-acid batteries (gel or otherwise), including those who make
> defibrillators, lawn mowers, alarm systems, UPS systems, etc......
> 
> - Greg


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