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Originally Posted by masraum View Post

That probably what you ran into. I've heard that sort of battery death is due to the coating on the plates flaking off or otherwise changing. I've heard of "internal shorts" too, but I'm not sure exactly what that is referring to.
I think (from some retired enginerd from a Ducati board?) that an internal short is when a plate sulfates, and then the plate (with the sulfate build-up) starts touching adjacent plates.
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