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The specific gravity readings of a lead-acid cell taken twice after charging shows substantially lower value.

  • Cell is defective
  • You top up the cell with distilled water
  • You replace the cell

Explanation from PART66Online

If a lead-acid cell still shows a substantially low specific gravity after charging and a repeat reading confirms it, the active material or plates are no longer accepting charge, indicating the cell is defective. Topping up with distilled water corrects only a low electrolyte level, not a low specific gravity, so the cell itself is at fault.

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MridulDev asked · 2 Feb 2015

is this question tricky or this question is acting devil, why can't "replacing the cell" be a right answer. but i consider both answer to be correct. if any one can lighten up then that would be wonderful.

Community Comments (2)

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MridulDev 21 Jan 2016
Self correction: there's no such think such as replaceable lead acid cell.(study a/c lead acid battery in detail u'll know). Hence "cell is defective" has to be right answer in this case.
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Jordi 9 Apr 2021
the cell will be defective easy as that you just have to asnwer the question on the exam not right an essay Mridul.

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