Re: Battery Explosion

From: Marshall Dudley (mdudley_at_king-cart.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:14:11 -0500

Different brands (or the same brand of different ages) have different
amp-hours left in them. The one(s) with the smaller amp-hours completely
discharge before the others are dead and become reverse phased. If the
battery does not have a steel shell, then upon continuation of bias the
zink jacket will completely eat through spilling the contents. If it does
have a steel jacket, then continued bias will result in the release of
gases that can cause rupture of the jacket.

Marshall

FrogEye wrote:

> I've noticed that many instructions for appliances say that you
> shouldn't mix battery brands together. However, quite some time ago I
> was out of one brand, so I had to mix two different brands together.
> Now I went to look at the batteries, and both batteries of one brand
> were exploded, with acid crusted all over them, while the other
> batteries were fine. Does anyone know why this is?

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