admin @ May 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The “AH” that you see on most batteries stands for amp-hour. What this basically means is one amp for one hour, or 10 amps for 1/10 of an hour and so forth. It is amps X hours. If you have something that pulls 20 amps, and you use it for 20 minutes, then the amp-hours [...]
admin @ May 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I know this can be a bit confusing as the abbreviations to these are CA and CCA, respectively. Now the cranking amps (CA) are frequently called marine cranking amps (MCA) to add a little to the confusion. What the difference boils down to:
-Cold Cranking Amps are how many amps the battery can maintain for 30 [...]
admin @ May 20, 2008 # One Comment
Although many people know how to do this, we do get this question from time to time. In order to set up a “series” of batteries, the positive terminal of the first battery is connected to the negative terminal of the second battery; the positive terminal of the second is connected to the negative of [...]
admin @ May 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Free warning this will be a bit of a rant more than anything else. As with most things right now prices are going up. There are several reasons for this, both factual and conjecture.
One fact that is undeniable is the fact that a year ago lead was under 50 cents a pound and is now [...]
admin @ May 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The brains over at MIT have been trying to come up with a replacement technology to the good old battery. For the most part batteries really haven’t changed much since Alessandro Volta came up with the basic battery back in 1800. Granted there are many new chemistries, new materials, shapes and sizes. Now what MIT [...]
