<VV> Battery

[Tony Underwood]

At 07:29 PM 9/11/2007, Garth Stapon wrote:

>Just renewed my subscription to Consumers reports.
>
>They rate the AutoZone Durlast battery very well.
>
>2 year replacement warrant $ 59.00
>
>According to them, not all batteries are created equally.
>
>I also learned that you can buy a hot zone - for the South and cold 
>zone for the North.
>
>Cold cranking amps seemed natural for the North but the hot zone 
>performs better in the heat.
>
>As a perpetual Northerner, who would have thunk? Learn something new 
>every time I read.


This was "TO&E" in the US military which had always used different 
electrolytes in batteries scheduled to be used in hot climates like 
Vietnam or the middle east, vs the batteries that were to end up in 
Germany or Alaska etc.

A supply sgt pointed it out in a parts manual when I asked why there 
were two different types of  battery listed for the M-113 APC.


tony..