Pennine King Power “Maintenance Free” Car batteries.

The phrase “maintenance free Batteries” is only partly correct.

When used on you car, lead acid batteries will normally use up some of the liquid in the battery. The liquid in your battery is a diluted mixture of sulphuric acid and water known as electrolyte. The liquid is lost during the the batteries every day cycle of charging and discharging. The process turns into a gas mixture of oxygen and hydrogen and escapes from the battery. In a conventional battery we then add water to keep the battery topped up to the correct level.

Maintenance free batteries such as Pennine King Power are known as MF batteries and use a different type of lead alloy mad of calcium known as calcium/calcium. Mf batteries use calcium alloy of lead and not a lead antimony alloy. This reduces the gassing in normal batteries therefore stops the need to keep topping up your battery. Indeed this means that you have no need to top up your battery during the batteries normal life.

“Pennine King Power” try their up most to source the Best “maintenance free batteries”.

Pennine King Power MF batteries

The only problem can occur in exceptionally high temperatures where the battery may boil but the newer types of MF battery now have pressure relief valves that come into operation when the pressure may get too high. Altogether these batteries are becoming the normal standard for modern vehicle standards and are worth buying instead of cheap batteries. Www.batteriesontheweb.co.uk