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Battery increasing in capacity over time?
Someone who is smarter than me about lead acid batteries please explain why it appears that battery capacity is increasing every year...

For the past few years, I have been testing some batteries with a West Mountain Radio CBA IV Battery Analyzer (7.5A down to 8.5V). In both of our 2014-1 and 2014-2 batteries, the capacity appears to have increased. I'm not too certain why the 2014-1 test appears to be a bit "choppy" this year, but it probably had to do with me bumping the wires at one point (is it really that sensitive?). I don't really want to torture the batteries in another retest to find out. Do I have magic batteries or is there something goofy happening with my battery analyzer/test setup?


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Also, sorry about the chart legend being out of order...not quite sure how to fix that without importing the data into Excel (which I can do, but I'm pretty lazy)
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