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Trying out battery desulfator

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nctnico:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on April 08, 2021, 04:04:32 am ---The best desulfator I know is the lead acid battery manufacturer. I had two dead batteries and I did a little research about desulfation, but I reached the conclusion that there's no effective way of doing that.  You need to rebuild the whole thing. So I bought I new one and even got a 30% discount for trading in the old one to them.

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A lot depends on how good the charger is and whether a battery is treated well or not. One of my customers is doing lead-acid battery regeneration on an industrial scale (batteries from equipment like electric fork lifts, etc). They told me that in many cases they can revive a battery (not only using pulsing but also through flushing the battery using proprietary chemicals; pulsing alone isn't going to do the job) but if the end user has a good charger and doesn't abuse the batteries there is not much to revive. At some point a battery is simply worn out.

Rick Law:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 08, 2021, 04:48:17 pm ---...
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At some point a battery is simply worn out.

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Funny thing about perception.  When I took those worn out batteries from the enclosure of the UPS, those guys look the same as the day I put them into the enclosure.

I know they have been cycling in the UPS for years, yet they look so clean and new it is hard to think of them as old worn out stuff...  But yet they are...

james_s:

--- Quote from: Rick Law on April 09, 2021, 06:45:52 am ---Funny thing about perception.  When I took those worn out batteries from the enclosure of the UPS, those guys look the same as the day I put them into the enclosure.

I know they have been cycling in the UPS for years, yet they look so clean and new it is hard to think of them as old worn out stuff...  But yet they are...

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Generally speaking, batteries don't really wear much on the outside unless they are in REALLY bad shape.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 09, 2021, 08:40:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Rick Law on April 09, 2021, 06:45:52 am ---Funny thing about perception.  When I took those worn out batteries from the enclosure of the UPS, those guys look the same as the day I put them into the enclosure.

I know they have been cycling in the UPS for years, yet they look so clean and new it is hard to think of them as old worn out stuff...  But yet they are...

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Generally speaking, batteries don't really wear much on the outside unless they are in REALLY bad shape.

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...unless they are leaky Duracells!  :D

james_s:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 09, 2021, 08:54:46 pm ---...unless they are leaky Duracells!  :D

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IMHO those are in really bad shape right out of the factory.

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