Recombination or tall tubular Batteries

Recombination or tall tubular battery is the recent development in the lead acid batteries. These batteries are also called gel cell batteries due to their construction. Recombination batteries or jell cell batteries don’t use liquid electrolyte. But they use special kind of separators which holds electrolyte gel in them. This gel type material is a cream type acid electrolyte. These separators are places between the plates and they make good and low resistance contact with plate grids. They have a spiral construction like a capacitor.

Tall tubular battery

 The spiral design provides more plate area compared to the conventional straight plate type plates. Also the close plates design provides less resistance. Due to this design the output voltage and current have greater value than the conventional lead acid batteries. These higher voltages usually 0.6V provides more power in cold cranking and starting. In these kind of batteries the gas formation is virtually zero and battery can be charged faster than usual.

The recombination batteries have more safety features and advantages. Following are few:

1.       These batteries can more provide much more cold cranking current. The cold cranking current could reach up to 900 amperes.

2.       The combination or tall tubular batteries can withstand real deep cycling and they would not be damaged.

3.       Combination or tubular batteries life expectancy is more. They can last four time more than conventional lead acid batteries.

4.       Combination or tall tubular batteries could be installed in any direction as there is no liquid electrolyte in it so they don’t need any specific direction for installation.

5.       Combination or tall tubular batteries have no liquid electrolyte so they don’t spill even if the case of the battery is cracked.

6.       These batteries and their terminals are corrosion free.

These batteries has very low maintenance as there is no electrolyte or water loss in them.