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Exploded battery
Posted to the Waveform Library on 1/23/2002

This is a maintenance free battery with heavily sulphated plates. The lead sulphate coating caused plate swelling to the point where pressure and rubbing wore through the plate separators and shorted the affected cell. With the charging voltage applied across ...