Originally Posted by
EdCaffreyMS
Hello Everyone!
While in the shop this evening, working on a wet cell, I was pondering the designs of dry cells that I have seen. My first thought was that a dry cell design, where the bolts go through all of the plates, was the cat's meow. But then it occurred to me that somewhere in the stack of plates, the bolt is bound to make contact with one or more of the plates....and if it makes contact with a pos and a negitive plate....isn't that a current pathway? So, if that occurred, wouldn't the cell short out?
Maybe I'm way off base, but it seems logical to me?? Maybe that the reason that you see some dry cells with the bolts on the exterior of the plates?