DavesnothereNo-BHELL-ity DOES have its Advantages
join:2009-06-15
START&Cogeco
kudos:6 | reply to Guspaz
Battery Types It's my understanding that they are a variant of Lead-Acid called a 'Gel Cell' battery and are supposed to be completely 'maintenance free' (cannot top up the electrolyte as it is not a free flowing liquid), unlike some lead-acid car batteries which were also known as 'maintenance free', though Could be topped up if you pried off some covers believing you needed to.
Those car batteries are now are called 'Low Maintenance', due to changes in / enforcement of consumer laws, I believe. |
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join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
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1 edit | Many moons/centuries ago, I visited the Bell CO on Belmont street in Montreal. They still have crossbar equipment feeding McGill university back then. (this was one step ahead from the first generation rotary switches, and the first to support touch tone). And they still had one rack of rotary (step by step) switches, but they had just been made offline and not yet removed).
They had a large portion of a floor dedicated to batteries. They had semi transparent plastic enclosure, and you could see bubbles flowing up between the metal plates inside. Pretty neat sight.
When I worked for a bank, I did see their turbine generators on the top floor, but I don't recall their batteries. (that would have been about 10 years after visiting the Belmont one). When I visited the Whitehorse CO in 1989 they had more modern equipment there. (and got to meet some of the operators, some of whome I spoke t later on when making calling card calls  |
