e. Resistance of Grids. Resistance of
Electrolyte. Resistance of Active Materials.
9. CARE OF BATTERY ON THE CAR
Care of Battery Box. How to Clean the Battery. How to Prevent
Corrosion. Correct Battery Cable Length. Inspection of Battery to
Determine Level of Electrolyte. How to Add Water to Replace
Evaporation. When Water Should Be Added. How Electrolyte Is Lost.
Danger from Adding Acid Instead of Water. Effect of Adding Too Much
Water. When Specific Gravity Readings Should Be Taken. What the
Various Specific Gravity Readings Indicate. Construction of a Syringe
Hydrometer. How to Take Specific Gravity Readings. Why Specific
Gravity Readings Should Not Be Taken Soon After Adding Water to
Replace Evaporation. Troubles Indicated by Specific Gravity Readings.
How to Make Sure That Sections of a Multiple-Section Battery Receive
the Same Charging Current. How Temperature Affects Specific Gravity
Readings. How to Make Temperature Corrections in Specific Gravity
Readings. Battery Operating Temperatures. Effect of Low and High
Temperatures. Troubles Indicated by High Temperatures. Damage Caused
by Allowing Electrolyte to Fall Below Tops of Plates. I-low to Prevent
Freezing. Care of Battery When Not in Use. "Dope" or "Patent"
Electrolyte, or Battery Solutions.
10. STORAGE BATTERY TROUBLES
Normal and Injurious Sulphation.-- How Injurious Sulphate Forms. Why An
Idle Battery Becomes Sulphated. Why Sulphated Plates Must Be Charged
at a Low Rate. How Over discharge Causes Sulphation. How Starvation
Causes Sulphation. How Sulphate Results from Electrolyte Being Below
Tops of Plates. How Impurities Cause Sulphation. How Sulphation
Results from Adding Acid Instead of Water to Replace Evaporation. Why
Adding Acid Causes Specific Gravity Readings to Be Unreliable. How
Overheating Causes Sulphation.
Buckling.-How Overdischarge Causes Buckling. How Continued Operation
with Battery in a Discharged Condition Causes Buckling. I-low Charging
at High Rates Causes Buckling, How Non-Uniform Distribution of Current
Over the Plates Causes Buckling. How Defective Grid Alloy Causes
Buckling.
Shedding, or Loss of Active Material.-- Normal Shedding. How Excessive
Charging Rate, or Overcharging Causes Shedding. How Charging Sulphated
Plates at Too High a Rate Causes Shedding. How Charging Only a Portion
of the Plate Causes Shedding. How Freezing Causes Shedding. How
Overdischarge Causes Loose Active Material. How Buckling Causes Loose
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