Re: New batteries don't last like the old ones

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Jul 9, 8:43=A0am, and...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
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> Was that a US thing?
> I haven't noticed any absence of Yuasa in the UK.
>

I don't know. I just remember that I'd heard that Genesis had bought
them out but the battery quality would remain the same. I just
continued using them under the Genesis name. Now Yuasa brand is back
on the market so I'm using them.

> I had a Yuasa 6AH battery (NP6-12) which was removed from a panel in
> 1995 as part of routing swapout, but which I hung on to. It was working
> fine, driving a portable 12V lamp still with full capacity, until
> about 3 months ago, when it suddenly died. Thought that was quite
> good going.
>
> OTOH, I removed a 5 year old 7AH Yuasa (NP7-12) from a panel about
> a year ago, and found it only had 1AH capacity left. Not so impressed.
>
> Not enough data points to be statistically significant though.

I've used Yuasa for lots and lots of years certainly more than 20. A
few times during that period I tried a few other brands and inevitably
they fail at a faster rate than the Yuasa. I mark the date on the
batteries so it's pretty easy to know. I hear that the Elk batteries
are pretty good but since the Yuasa are available to me, I'll stick
with them.
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