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I've had to replace 8 batteries so far this year. If I would put 3 more in three other pieces of equip I'd have them all new. I'm not complaining but that about enough for this year.
 
Ya but, how long has it been since you changed any of the batteries?? Knock on wood, but I have batteries in tractors that don't get used much that I can't remember changing. But I do put battery maintainers on everything when not using them.
 
One of these years that's going to happen to me, we have about 13 batteries in use, and they seem to last forever, and I don't use maintainers on any of them. I don't like to leave anything plugged in, and I don't seem to need them.
 
The record at My place is 16 years with the original factory battery -- I bought a new 2004 Harley Davidson and I put in a new batt. in 2020 -It still worked but was weak -- Yep 16 years and no charger of any kind -- I bet the one in it now wont last that long! Roy
 
I had a year like that too.
A lot of the batteries went bad in the same year.
I replaced them with different brands hoping I would get different
life spans out of them. If I don't, they'll all go bad at the same
time again and I'll have another year of a ton of bad batteries.
 
I have 3 tractors that all use the same battery. That way I only have one battery on its way to being bad, instead of three. And if another tractor wasn't 6v, and another that wasnt magneto, all 5 would use the same battery.
 
My oldest battery has 2004 stamped on it. It barely rolls my JD 50 over, but it starts on the first roll. I was gonna replace it this spring, but now I wonder how long it will last.
 

I had that year a couple years ago. Every time I turned around another one was dead...

One of which was our Honda quad... I can't begrudge that one... it's now on it's 4th battery since 1984. 3 batts running almost 40 years is ok in my book...

I've generally taken to pulling the batts on machines that aren't going to run all winter. They spend that time in the house basement, which is heated, and they get rotated through a couple chargers so they're happy in the spring, or whenever I happen to need them.
 
When I find batteries on sale, I'll buy a few to have sitting on the bench.
When you need a battery, It's never on sale.
Saves a trip to town having a new battery on bench.
 
I think today batteries must be made different. Probably for some environmental crackpot reason. Then maybe they got on the bandwagon with every other company striving to make the cheapest junk possible.
 
Tim you & I must have the same flash lights. I just replaced 6 in one and 3 in another. The 6 battery is my barn flashlight. The 3 is my pickup flashlight
 
Seems to me that they are and are of the sealed type. I like that as it really cuts down on corrosion at the terminals and water consumption with heavy use. The different construction process is readily available on the web.

Course the cost is different too......most of that is lead processing related I would assume. I think the EPA has put the crunch on lead foundries. Awhile back there was a big stink about a large one in Dallas polluting the local neighborhood for many years. Surely there was legal settlements involved in getting all that resolved.
 
Actually, this one had 9 AA batteries in one flashlight. It's a Stanley tripod flashlight, similar to the one in the link, but close to 10 years old--and it takes 9 AA batteries--3 in each leg. It's my garage flashlight, and, believe it or not, in spite of quite a lot of use it still had the original batteries and was still working. However, it had gotten very dim and when I went to replace the batteries several nearly every one was swollen, corroded, split, or otherwise destroyed, and it took me quite some time to get them all out and the inside cleaned up enough to get new batteries back in. In most cases it wouldn't have been worth the effort but this one was a gift from a friend and is also very handy, as the combination of brightness, a rotating head and tripod legs mean it can be set down and aimed into all sorts of places to shed light on situations. I went back in with heavy-duty lithium batteries which I'm hoping will avoid a repeat of the corrosion problems, but time will tell whether they'll last anywhere near as far as the originals did.
stanley tripod flashlight
 
The majority of car batteries are created by 3 manufacturers - Delphi, Exide and Johnson Controls Industries. Delphi makes some EverStart models sold in Walmart and ACDelco. Johnson Control Industries makes Duralast seen in Autozone stores, Diehard - sold in Sears, Kirkland - the Costco brand, Motorcraft - which Ford sells, some of the EverStarts, and Interstate. Exide makes Exide batteries, Champion, Napa and even a % of the EverStart batteries.
 
I guess it's possible to make any situation into a debate but what does the manufacturing of cheap junk have to do with environmental crackpots? I'm trying hard but don't get your thinking Stephen, it doesn't make any sense.
 
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