Putting it all together

Making good plates with good active material is one thing: Putting cells together and making a battery is something else. Our resident lead-acid master craftsman Mike McDonagh consider the issues around cell assembly and what can go wrong.

So far this series of articles has concentrated on lead, and the processing of lead to obtain the physical and chemical characteristics required to provide a working, commercial, lead-acid battery. The next step is to arrange the lead based components in series and contain them in an acid proof container with external connections. This now brings in a . . .