1978 650 yamaha voltage loss

Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dxant wrote:
>
> > How old is the battery? Batteries will lose some of their petential over
> > a period of time. It all depends on how the battery is manufactured and
> > how you store it among other things. While air is mostly an insulator,
> > it is also can be a conductor given the right conditions such as humidity.
>
> Get real. We're talking about 12 volts here, not a million volts of
> static electricity
> building up between the clouds and the earth.

Maybe this is Nomen Nescio in another guise.

KK, you are correct- batteries self-discharging through humid air is
not a problem.

However, dirt combined with moisture on top of a battery can drain a
battery over time.

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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:19:19 -0000, Mark Olson <olsonm.RemoveThis@tiny.invalid>
wrote:

>Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dxant wrote:
>>
>> > How old is the battery? Batteries will lose some of their petential over
>> > a period of time. It all depends on how the battery is manufactured and
>> > how you store it among other things. While air is mostly an insulator,
>> > it is also can be a conductor given the right conditions such as humidity.
>>
>> Get real. We're talking about 12 volts here, not a million volts of
>> static electricity
>> building up between the clouds and the earth.
>
>Maybe this is Nomen Nescio in another guise.
>
>KK, you are correct- batteries self-discharging through humid air is
>not a problem.
>
>However, dirt combined with moisture on top of a battery can drain a
>battery over time.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=battery+self-discharge


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