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

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Jul 10, 7:48=A0pm, Crash <robos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 9:42=A0am, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > > 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 worki=
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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=
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> > > Not enough data points to be statistically significant though.
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> > 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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> Genesis / Yuasa forget the other crap.
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> I weighed a Genesis 12-7 against a UltraTech (crap) and the Genesis
> weighed a full pound more...for what that's worth at least it has more
> lead in it.-

Maybe that's why people are always telling you to get the lead out.