[AT] Old spark plus found/now battery

[Ralph Goff]

On 5/7/2011 6:06 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> It talks about storing a new battery at that temperature and I can see where
> that would slow the chemical reaction but it doesn't say to use the battery
> at that temp.  I suspect it needs to warm up before being placed in use.
> Just a guess.
>
> Charlie
>
Even in the sixties it was the popular belief here that vehicle and 
machinery batteries must be taken into the house for storage for the 
winter. It made for a lot of unnecessary work, especially as tractors 
got bigger and had 2 big batteries. Eventually I abandoned this practice 
(got lazy). Currently my biggest diesel tractor has a set of batteries 
over ten years old that have never been taken out since I installed them 
new. Apparently sitting out there in unheated storage every winter has 
not hurt them.

Ralph in Sask.