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Why You Shouldn't Use a Car Battery As Main Source Of Energy For A Long Time?

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Jason Clark
Why You Shouldn't Use a Car Battery As Main Source Of Energy For A Long Time?

Because this will permanently damage the starter battery. The main task of the starter battery is to ensure that very large currents flow in a small amount of time (only a few seconds).

This is a sufficient condition to start the internal combustion engine. Therefore, the battery electrodes, the terminals as well as the cables connected to them are made of solid mass and thus provide more than 300A current to the starter of the car.

However, inside the battery cells, a constructive solution to provide this current is to use thin and many plates that are connected in parallel.

Operating a starter battery is designed to provide short starter cycles with a heavy load, and as a power source for an extended period of time puts the starter battery in an uncharacteristic load mode.

Thus, a starter battery having 50% -70% of its capacity must allow small to medium currents to flow for a long period of time. This can generate strong mechanical forces between the structurally thin plates.

These deformations in many cases lead to the separation of the active material from the plates and their fall to the bottom of the cells.

The loss of active material results in a loss of starter battery capacity. It is therefore important that the batteries be used properly. Batteries also have design differences due to their different load modes.

According to their application, they are divided into starter batteries, stationary batteries, traction batteries, etc.

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