From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 08:29:11 PST
I knew I'd heard that somewhere....but so faint in the brain....couldn't pull it
out. Along with the telling of this....it was stated that it doesn't matter what
voltage a battery is charged with....the heat is the factor. But....as
usual....I have a question. How would you know when all the sulphation is gone?
Let the bulb get a little brighter each time till the specific gravity gets up
to par? Fred
jonathon wrote:
> I have not really been following this thread but I forwarded that writeup
> from the battery company to some people and one of them sent this back to
> me. Thought it might add something to the discussion.
>
> -----------
>
> One "Shade Tree Mechanic" trick to break through the sulphation and get
> SOMETHING going in a non-conductive dead battery is to make a "charger" out
> of rectified 110AC with a 100 watt lightbulb in series with it. The peak
> voltages of the AC make it through to the battery (rectified first) and
> break through the crap and get current flowing if it's still possible. Once
> the lightbulb comes on (current flowing), then you can charge it with a
> regular charger (after removing the line voltage setup. Don't touch any of
> it whilst the thing is plugged in.
>
> ------------
>
> later,
>
> je
>
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