Re: Best way to care for a 12V battery?

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quote Indian Group Leader:

I agree that it is important to store a battery off of the floor. Brand new batteries sitting on a concrete floor will discharge in short order. That was a recommendation of Interstate Batteries when I owned an auto repair facility in Houston.

I took a moment to search on this topic, and here’s what came up.. if you’re willing to believe Snopes.com, the battery / concrete thing is an urban legend.

Now I’m not a chemist, nor do I design batteries – but based on what I know about physics, and electronics / electrochemisty, there’s no good reason that a battery stored on +concrete+ should be damaged, or even discharged at an accelerated rate.

It’s all a bunch of hooey, really.