I don’t know why there are so many jerks on the internet with nothing but condescending or mean things to say. They are so brainwashed they can’t handle real human beings being human. Thanks for the video and the information. I appreciate your time and contribution to the UA-cam community. And the music is quirky but completely works.
8:18 Slam dunking the whole battery in a bucket is CRAZY. Not givinga rat'sass!. After watching that I was compelled to hit like, subscribe and the bell icon!
Hay, u were awesome. Being electrical engineer i never tried this a bit. But after accidentally watched your video, i did give life to my 3 year old dead battery. Nice video.
well thank you! was hard to remember what i wanted to film after i waited a week for the battery to desulfate haha. i'm used to filming things all at once.
Thanks for the video. I have a question for you. It seems that sulfate between cell is the biggest cuprite for lead-acid going bad. I have a motorcycle battery, EverStart brand, just like one of your battery you were testing with. I just bought this new in May this year. I've used it fine for the summer then I put on a low current charger. This other day I have discovered the charger indicator blinking yellow rather then green. Who knows how long it had been blinking.. I check the battery voltage and it reads 5 volt. So I disconnect and reconnect the charger then two days later it shows green indicator but when I measure the voltage, it shows still 5 volt. The charger must have drained the battery for good. But this battery is new. It is not a case of sulfate build up. Is there any way the battery could be revived? These motorcycle battery only comes with 90 day warranty for whatever reason. Thanks in advance for your help.
@@napieraustin I raised the voltage to 12 volt by connecting the dead battery to my car battery for few hours (or was it few minutes? I cannot remember). Some posts indicated that the charger would not charge unless the battery is up to certain volt. I guess 5 volt was too loo low of voltage to start the charger. These compact charger do not have whole lot of explanation to tell you anything. Anyway, the volt is up to 12 volt and I put on a charger to keep charging. It has been on charger for winter. I will find if the battery is fully restored or not when I connect the battery to the bike this spring. If the CCA is not up, even with the battery volt reading of 12 volt, battery is not usable. Try that!
U need distilled water. Distilled water is a non conductor. Tap water is a conductor of electricity. Tap water doesnt hold a good charge and makes a lot of acid when it evaporates. Use distilled water only.
nice! i've had good luck with epsom salt and may try alum someday. the 3rd 4-wheeler battery i didnt show much in this video is bad along with the 2nd one that was bad. ima connect one to 115v AC and blow it up. then maybe cut them open, remove the plates and turn them into little lockable boxes.
its called the Wizbang Plus on ebay. only really available on USA and Canada ebay but cost 20$. this desulfator is the cheepest one you can buy. and it shows. thats why it's held together with a cloths pin and a bunch of solder on it. it arrived with a capacitor broken off and they just refunded me and let me keep it free. that may be a mistake or they didn't care about me returning it. btw it does come in a plastic housing, it doesn't come as an open circuit board.
How long can battery life be extended by doing this? Also, if I decide to just buy new batteries for my 2 jumper packs that are weak/dying, do they HAVE to read “20HR” on them? My jumper pack batteries are labeled; 12V 7AH/20HR and the other is labeled 12V 18AH/20HR… I’ve found identical batteries on Amazon, BUT, NONE of them read “20HR” on them… Confusing…
If you are doing a lot of parallel circuit battery charging, you might consider building a negative busbar and a positive busbar on which to clamp the alligator clips for that workbench. You had multiple alligator clips on other alligator clips. The direction things are heading, I foresee clothespins with bare wire wrapped on the clamping end on those bars. You might be able to gut one of those batteries and build a capacitor.
The AGM battery you were trying to fix appears to be an ETX20L (name located on bottom of battery) The caps that you are having issue with are ultrasonically welded, which are not made to be removed or replaced (white marks) or it voids any kind of warranty. The 10.41 volts indicates that it has a hydration short in one of the groups. A hydration short is a wearing away of a spot of the separator material, usually looking like a burn mark. This usually happens when plates were not entirely soaked in acid during filling process. Also, the light grey plates are the negative plates and the dark colored plates are the positive. Adding water to an AGM battery does not "FIX" it. Also, it is a conventional acid, just a different specific gravity compared to an auto. I work at a battery manufacturing plant as quality control. DO NOT TRY WHAT THIS GUY IS DOING TO THE SUPER START BATTERY(ETX20L)
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you are right never really worked much with gel batts and the lead acid batteries we always decapped and blew the hydrogen out before making connections
I was given an 85 amp sealed leisure battery. The level was low so I drilled 6 holes & topped them up with distilled water ( I make my own) then sealed the holes with hot glue & small squares of plastic so can be removed for refilling again & set the charger on pulse repair mode. It's a great battery & can deliver current as I tested it with my 12-volt kettle which draws around 14 amps & it boiled. I also have 2, 126 amp truck batteries which I have also had on pulse repair & inverters to use with ham radio, CB & UHF equipment in an emergency. Now the West is locking horns with Russia One never knows when backup power is needed. We could have our fragile power grid knocked out.
Thank you for the answer. I'm building a solar power system and a desulfator would be a big help. If you know any trucking companies, you could try to get an 8D3 or a 4D3 battery. They're massive, about 100 pounds but have a heck of a reserve. One or two could be a big asset to your shed lighting system.
Solar charge controllers, even a cheap ebay one, combined with solar panel(s), make the best desulfators as they push 1/10 of a volt more than whatever charge is currently on the battery and lead acid likes this. I have saved an older flooded lead acid costco interstate battery that went flat because the car door wasn't shut right, and then the battery was too low voltage to take a charge from the alternator which pushes 14.4 volts. I was going to buy a new battery but just left the 20 watt solar panel and the $12 charge controller on the battery so it would start when I got a chance to go to Costco to buy a new one. It was covid times so I kept putting it off. I did put some distilled water in the battery and I kept the solar on the battery which I noticed was slowly creeping up about 1/10 a volt every day. It took at least a week to get the battery chargeable by the alternator again, but even more time will desultate further. I didn't have to buy a new battery! That was 2 years ago and the battery is still going strong with normal use.
If you connect a piece of solder to your meter probes and dip the solder into the holes where you fill it, they make a mini battery and you can test the individual voltage on each cell.
i don't think its because its a battery. i believe its due to the acid holding a charge also. you can use any type of wire for it. but yeah its something i forgot to put into this video. but i try to make a new video every few months regarding batteries so i'll keep working at it :D
The black battery that you had to pry the strip of caps off from is a gel cell or possibly an AGM or Absorbed Glass Mat battery. In either case, it WAS a sealed battery. The acid is in a gelled state and WAS under slight pressure until you popped the caps. It is made this way so when the water in the gelled cells gasifies, up to a point, it will be reabsorbed as the battery cools. As soon as you popped the caps, you ruined the battery. Also, in a standard car or boat battery, the electrolyte, (acid to you), IS 40% sulfuric and 60% water. NOT 10% to 90 % as you said. You might also want to warn your audience that even short exposure of battery acid in the eyes can cause blindness and to keep baking soda near by to neutralize any spills. BTW, you ruined the AGM battery as soon as you opened it and you can NOT add water or acid to these either. I think you have some more to read up on battery maintenance and chemistry before you hurt yourself or someone really badly. Also, it's a lead PEROXIDE and a lead DIOXIDE coating on the plates. While the plates are pure lead, It's the coatings that make them positive or negative. Lead sulfate does not form BETWEEN the plates, it forms ON the plates. When you desulfate a battery, you don't redissolve it back into the acid, you actually crack the surface of it to allow the acid to come back into contact with the plates. If you feed 15 volts into a wet cell battery, you will overheat it and develop a LOT of gas bubble between the plates which will keep the acid away from them and NOT allow them to charge properly. I believe your heart is in the right place but you are playing with danger when you play with these batteries when you don't know what you're doing. A little knowledge really can be worse than none at all. God bless you and your viewers.
Hi Sir the 12volt battery that I'm doing has a dead cell & 3 days ago I had emptied the acid out of the battery & then flushed the battery with fresh clean rain water from my 250 liter tank & boil it up in a jug & I added some of the rest of the cold water to the hot boiling water to cool it down a bit to put in the battery & gave it a bit of a shake up & then poured it out of the battery & when I got all of contents out of the battery I then got some more Fresh clean rain water & put it in the jug & boiled it up & I got a pack of baking soda & once the jug boiled & I some cold rain water put into the bottle & the added hot water from the from the jug & added the baking soda & gave it a good shake up & then poured it into the battery & you should have seen the contents bubbling in the battery & let sit overnight & the yesterday morning I emptied the mixture straight out of the battery & forgot to shake up the battery first & got all out of the battery then I did the process all over again & adding baking soda to the hot fresh rainwater & poured it into the battery & I let it sit in battery for about 2 hours & then gave the battery a good shake up & before pouring all the contents out & did same thing again & a total of 6 times with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & on the 6 th time that I did with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & added to the battery I then let it sit overnight & later this morning I has put the caps on the battery & screwed them down & gave the battery a good shake up for a few minutes & then took the caps off the battery & poured the contents out of the battery & once I got the contents I got a bottle of fresh clean rain water & heat it up & poured that straight into the battery & gave it another shake up & poured straight out & moved the battery back & forth while the battery was up side down & then after I had got it all out of the battery & then got plenty of distilled water & boiled that up & then some cold distilled water just to cool it down a little & then added Epsom Salts to the container & gave & once the Epsom Salts had desolved & I poured that into the battery & then I put the Foxsur 12V/24V 7stage battery charge & it's on repair mode & within a few minutes the Epsom Salts with the destilled water started to bubble & as I was looking at each cell some were bubbling & weren't bubbling & then a short time later they were all started to bubble & I said cool I may have fixed the dead cell that was in this battery & when I unplugged the charger leaving the leads connected to the charger & got a reading off the Foxsur charger 8.8 Volts & then about a few minutes later I unplugged the charger & got a reading of 9.1 Volts & so its coming up &.its been now a few hours now but it's raining at the present time not nice at all & will have to check it again at a later after the rain has stopped & here's hoping that I may have restored this battery & I hope so anyway Kind Regards Peter
I was looking for this comment after seeing that. Was trying to lift an old 74Ah battery from car and move it to my garage and goddam the battery weight alike almost 40 lbs and I was worried if it’s handle would snap. And I see this guy lifting the battery like it’s nothing!😁🤦🏻♂️
Just FYI 10v is a bad sign, it usually means a bad cell if the 1 volt is young enough I'd rather try it, most chargers will not charge batteries below 11volts, anything lower looks like a 6v to the charger, you can trick the charger by linking in another good battery by putting the pos on one, and the neg on the other then use alligator clips to link both positives together then another to the negs. Also don't add water to SLA batteries, shake it if it rattles you're done. I work at batteries plus
you dont seem to know much about batteries then. i have a deep cycle that was at 4v and once revived now has about a 1/4 of it's capacity. some of the batteries i weld with where bellow 8v once, so they are still very useful. and as for adding water to SLAs, an sla will vent off its water over time and will try out. so yes adding water to an sla will help. you did watch the video right?
haha well thanks. i put that in for the people who stumble across my channel since my battery videos get me like 90% of my subs and views. i plan on remaking this video every year or so and each version will get better and better and i'll also refine my method. it seems as though my desulfated batteries sometimes don't get past 12.4ish volts. you think i should mess with adding epsom salt? i think the issue is the sulfuric acid has turned into useless chemicals and so the acid is less potent.
Great video. I have a 48 volt golf cart, 5 years old and the batteries last only about 16 vs 25 miles when new. I want to desulfate them using a battery pulse system like yours. Did you build yours, since there is no casing around the electronics. Amazon sells the BLS-48A desulfator, which the manufacturer recommends to mount in the golf cart and desulfate continuously. Any recommendations?
Great video! Great description and presentation! This is a great solution for poor people like me! I don't throw anything away! Gonna try some of these things on some dead batteries I have! Thanks!😎
i use the 200amp start on my battery charger to boil them for a bit,i have saved alot of batteries. i did one the other day that started at .8volts. its working well in the riding mower. takes a few hours. A DC arc welder also work for desulphating.
Good video brother.. should try empty batteries.. mix baking soda 1 cup per 1 gallon of distilled water fill up batteries wait for reaction to stop do this 2 or 3 times last time half way shake to get rid up crap.. now flush with hose water obviously shake the hell out of it then last flush with distilled water also shake .. now add new acid O'Reilly 25 bucks for 5 gallons pre mixed sulfuric acid for batteries now charge on Trickle 24 hours.. you could also do the Epson salt idea but Alum Granulated Powder food grade work much much better also 1 cup per 1 gallon you can heat that up over oven on low until all dissolved qait until its cooled to add to batteries.. a hydrometer helps to check the gravity.. you seem very skilled with electric
Rinoa, great videos. Thanks. Have you seen any of those videos where people are "converting" old lead-acid batteries to "lead-alum" by dumping out the acid, rinsing and adding a mixture of alum and water? What do you think? I just tried it on a car battery that had been seriously over charged when the voltage regulator in my alternator went bad. It boiled the battery dry but even after refilling it with water and charging it, it would not even engage the starter. Now it is a bit better but still will not quite start the car. It would be awesome if a person like you with knowledge and testing equipment, could do some experimenting to see if this "conversion" idea is any good.
yeah i've been thinking about doing that. unfortunatly lead-alum batteries seem to not be good for starting engines. they are lower voltage and dont give as many amps. better for like solar-powered stuff.
technically using distilled water is ideal.. but I know enough about impurities in the manufacturing processes that lead me to believe the impact on cheap / already dead batteries is quite minimal. I just run water through a pur filter and dump it in. Usually a battery will come back somewhat but capacity will not return unless you run desalination. For kick started motorcycles this is not a huge issue, but for electric start ones it can be.
Nice video until I got to 15:45 and the desulfator. You connect the desulfator to two batteries, the charged one and the sulfated battery. The sulfate crystals are an insulator, (correct?) Doesn't that mean the desulfator will desulfinate the charged battery which doesn't need to be desulfinated? (Everything is in parallel.) Why don't you measure the specific gravity of the cells? You did a nice job. Thanks
I was wandering , since I tried this and it worked relatively well, if you add too much Epsom salt mixture will the voltage go up too much because after I put the mixture in, shake the batteries and charge them they hold at about 16 volts which is just too much to use a inverter like I want to but hopefully there is a fix for it. Thanks!!!
Alex Sohl adding too much epsom salt increases the reactivity of the electrolyte a lot. it will dissolve the lead plates a lot more and shorten the battery life. best fix is to just remove some electrolyte with a syringe or something and replace the liquid you removed with regular water to dilute it. thats crazy that your batteries held at 16v haha.
Alex Sohl Adding epson salts is a bad idea, it will make things worse and any chance of getting that battery back to life will not last long, it will burn out that battery fastter, the life span will be shorter and you will have to replace that battery sooner, the best way to get a old battery charger or one that sends a pulse charge into the battery but the best way is to desulfar the battery, adding anything to the water is not a good idea, if your going to add anything to a battery is to go to an auto shop and see if they will sell you battery acid, some will sell it to you and some will have you buy it in bulk, like in my home town i got to get a 5gl jug that will cost me $30 canadian, but never ever and anything to your water
The one that had the name on the tape requires you to cut the plastic around the top of the round plastic caps. It will hace tiny thin strips around the hole for venting but the caps will be connect between the vent slits. They are a pain in the arse to get out and they dont fit back in with gluing or plastic welding
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I have a 12v energizer battery for my lawn tractor. It somewhat held a charge before so I just filled it with water. It took 16 ounces so I'm hoping it will charge well
Resting voltage for a good battery is between 12.6 to 13.0 V. If the voltage is any less after sitting 24 hours, then the battery is sulphated. A "desulphator circuit" has to carry at least 5 amps of current to have any effect at all. If the resting voltage is less than 10 V, then the battery should be a core charge for a new battery, no recovery is possible. I've been through it all, tried many reconditioning tricks, powders, alum crystals, and almost none of them worked. The only try that did work (temporarily), was to empty the battery of the old acid, use baking soda saturated in distiled water to get rid of the sulphation on the plates, then add fresh acid to the battery. This worked for six months, but it ate the plates away and shorted two cells. The best thing to do to keep a battery working is to keep it clean, use distilled water only to fill a cell that has gone down. Never fill a cell more than 1/4 to 1/2" above the plates, the extra water, if you filled it to the top, dilutes the acid and makes the battery weaker. Clean the battery top with distilled water and a soft cloth untill it shines, any dirt or dust has a high concentration of rust, causing a high resistence short between the posts putting excessive stress on the battery and alternator. This shortens the life of the battery and alternator. A clean battery, no corrosion on the connections will make your battery last one or two years past it's expected life. I have an Exide "blem" in my truck that was only guaranteed for one year five years ago, and it still cranks the engine like when it was new. Enough proof for me.
I'm a grown man worked on cars all my life ....waisted money on new batteries cuz I never took time to understand that they were just thirsty.....learned sum thing from a child.....keep your head high kid
Sulfuric acid and water in a batter is "electrolyte". From what I recall a mixture of 40-60, is electrolyte. 40 percent acid 60 percent H2O. Also, use distilled water.
You can use lemon juice and a mixture of Epsom salt with lemon juice you could use that it might take a little while to put out a charge even on a sulfated battery this trick works I've used it sometimes in an emergencies that trick works just be careful when doing it.
Nice video. However; to make it more useful or for a follow-on, you might address the causes of dead batteries. For instance; I have a Delco car battery that is 48 series, that was simply neglected. It is not old, but I let it get deep discharged more than once. Now, it won't take a charge, even though the interior lights come on (thus, it puts out at least 12 volts, right?). Does improper deep discharging cause sulfating... as well asage of the batery? Do I build a de-sulfater? Buy it? Where? Thanks again for an informative video.
nice, i'm kinda just getting any batteries i come across. would love some 8D's though. tbh i got more than enough capacity for now, i just gotta work on my solar panels. i remember Jamie Hyneman (mythbuster) talking about his experiance with 8Ds going dead on his boat. that was in a podcast on Tested. i know starting batteries arent the best but oh well they are free. deep cycles are harder to find for free. btw did you just change your icon? your old comment has a differant icon. weird.
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very nice video. thank you! i have a question i have a maintenance free battery 35 Ah, it's around 12.5 v. i wanted to charge it but didn't know the standard charger (transformer + diodes is not good). I let it reach 15.13v then disconnected. I noticed a little bulge in one side of the battery around 3mm. i don't know if i caused it or it was like that. can i still charge it on a inteligent charger with desulfation?? i don't know how toi take off the caps. read on the internet that they can't be taken off and that it has special design to release the gases. the budge is soft and i can press on it. the eye is still green and i dont want to damage it
hrmm have you seen my video "DIY open car battery and repair with epsom salt"? is your battery like the one i open in that video? i don't think charging it would make the bulge unless it got very hot. 15v is pretty high but it depends on how many amps you where feeding into it. ussually i charge a battery with 700milliamps untill it reaches 14v or so. ussually takes a few days. is the bulge on the sides or the front/back of the battery? its normal for plates to push out on the casing and bulge it but it can mean its getting closer to the end of its life.
Rinoa Super-Genius NICE VID! Thanx! Seen it! That said.... I think you'd be better off with ALUM powder STRAIGHT OUT... Than with Epsom Salt. 8 ounces of ALUM per gallon of water! Watch THIS guy! /watch?v=Supe1a3LW2U He also rinses the battery clean FIRST... With 8 ounces BAKING SODA to a gallon of water! I think he's using just REGULAR WATER TOO! And his battery goes back to 13.2V... AND HOLDS IT... UNPLUGGED! ;-) Mind you! IT IS... a deep cycle battery, or so he mentions!
Excellent video. Can I reconditionan MAXXIMA 900DC EXIDE battery? I cannot figure out if it is an AGM battery or not, because on the battery case is written . "Use a constant voltage of 14.4 +/- 0.2 for charging". For this reason I am not shure that is a regular AGM battery.
You add salt to distilled water with high voltage for HHO'S. And it's the salt that makes it conductive not the water. If you put tap water in your batteries just once it will be garbage in a year. Distilled water you can get much longer life span on your batteries and fill it more than once and get 6 years or more on 1 battery. Just trying to help.
well i have been putting tap water in my batteries for like 3 years. so i guess that throws your 2nd statement out the window pretty fast. hahaha the battery in my great-grandparents 1982 mercury Zephyr lasted 23 years and my great-grandpa only refilled it with tap water from his shed.
Rinoa Super-Genius and that shed watter contained all the parts required to feed the battery and even rebuilt the plates and contained what we call magic. lol nah yeah fuckin pisses me off how like 10 years ago now i geuss. the batterys here in australia all started dieing within a year or soon after. and it was like but normaly they last 6 or 7 years ? now i go into battery store asking what they would recomend. and they say well batterys are all shit these days so its best you just buy a new one every 2 years. im like ohh ok thank you for your tremendous help. I have an infitum desulfater thats managed to bring back 7 alarm batterys and 5 car batterys . altho 3 alarm batters shorted from inside and caught fire. which i found entertaining. still tho even now that they all holding around 13.1 volt off charge wonce i power up the inverter... its draining them dead so fast. fine durin the day due to my 200watt solar panel. my main problem I simply havnt managed to hold the power i make at the panel. but i thought Id learn all asspect of batterys before makin a big purchase for a few deep cycles :) nice vids mate keep it up . have a nice day
Jesse Lawton wtf are you trying to say? your comments are hard to read. you shouldnt just mash a bunch of sequential thoughts together. its hard to understand.
haha i didn't even notice that. i tend not to look at warning labels too much. and yeh i am going to make like a big power strip and some cables. the cables will have a plug on one end and two aligator clips on the other side. that way i can connect or disconnect each battery if i wanted. but i'm only gonna worry about that when i get a good source of power like my solar panels and such.
idk of any way to fix a shorted cell without opening the battery. and once you open a battery its hard to get them back together. so i would say the best way to fix a shorted battery is to A; buy a new battery or B: chop one cell from another car battery and run it in series with your now 10v car battery to give you 12v again. i've seen that done before.
Rinoa Super-Genius Thanks for your quick response !!! Please let me ask one more question-information: Your desulfator is ''always-forever'' conected to your battery bank of your solar project??? So the desulfator takes ''charge-current'' from the solar panels??? Thanks again, i am so appreciated!!!
Hi liked the video. New to all this and wondered how to make the desulfater you used? Hopefully spelling is right. Anyway maybe a location to buy one. Thanks
I got that one for 20$ from eBay and its really weak. but I haven't built any good ones myself yet. I did try something that was promessing though. I built a circuit that would charge a cap to 30v then dump it into the battery as a high amp burst.
U can start an electrical fire with tap water. After the engine starts (with a tap water battery) it will charge the battery and voltage will go through the tap water and plates and burn wires in the engine. Electricity takes the shortest path.
no, the particles dissolved into the tap water may be more conductive if you have nasty water. but it is usually no more conductive than distilled water. please stop spreading misinformation and read some chemistry books. it would help you in life ^^
Great video, just need to find some batteries and possibly a charger with a desulfation function im sure new/electronic chargers have. When it comes to batteries/electronics you can never have enough information
thanks for enjoying it :D i am starting to feel a bit guilty that i'm focusing on batteries a bit much and not being as diverse as i'd wish. but oh well i'm obsessed with batteries for now so i'll just make a bunch of battery videos haha.
Turning up the voltage to hear the acid "sizzle" is a very good way of overheating the plates and warping them, creating a "short" and destroying the battery's performance! I thought you knew what you were doing!!!
Dude you are amazing. I love your videos! Amazing content!!!! I’m subscribing for sure !!!! Keep it up dude , just always remember too alway practice safety
That second one ypu must have had the polarity crossed on your test leads because it said -5.?? Volts or it switched polarity internally. Ive seen many small batteries reverse polarity but never ccx any big ones.
Quick question, 1. under what condition of the battery the "desulfator" is required? 2. I measured each cell of my battery, from right to left, it start with negative voltage, then v1.02, v2,40, v4.43, v6.3, v9.7. Is my battery shorted? 3. If 2 is yes, is it fixable you think?
Those are weird voltages, your battery only has five cells and is 10v? Anyway batteries begin to sulfate as soon as they are filled with acid. If they have been used constantly then they prolly won't get too sulfated for several years. But if the battery has been allowed to sit long enough for voltage ( at least a few weeks) to drop then it is prolly sulfated. But you could try a little bit of Epsom salt and if that little bit helps could add more. Its up to you. I don't,t see any reason you could,t desulfate it after adding Epsom salt.
Hyratel This battery originally used for a motor scooter. I am not sure how this battery would wind up "reverse voltage" state, but my question is if this battery is revive-able?? If not, I guess I'll just discard it and buy a new one.
MessyGreasy Hand funnily anof the only scooter battery iv tryed to revive had cell reading that made my jaw drop. i was like whoo what? then charged it... thort hmm its sure behaving oddly . then felt battery.. boiling. took of charger. few seconds later the battery has a flame coming out of it lol
one technique i've had good results with many sulphated batteries is : set power-supply current limit to 0.1 amps. wind the power-supply volts up enough to force current flow. I've used 50v or more. ** do this outside in case of fire or BANG. ** turn power-supply off FIRST BEFORE disconnecting battery. Safety glasses recommended! with a bad battery it may take a month . . Charging Volt should drop to 12 to 13V. do not charge at higher rates until resting batt volt is around 12v or so. I've never tried a desulphater, I didn't think they worked?
the last reply was short because i had to go to bed lol but using my logic you should take some small samples off the acid and use some litmus paper or solution to see if the solution of acid and water has weakened or even neutralized due to age and my miracle battery desulphator was a bedini motor it would usually only take a week and its like a brand new battery again but not all batterys are capable of being revived but otherwise good luck for the future repairs :)
rinoa, awesome video. i just sat through it but i'd like a copy on my laptop to save for reference. i figured it out with the power of google however. thanks for sharing your wisdom. do how have a line on how one can make/get a desulfator for cheap?
#1 your awesome. #2 i need your advice please. i was charging my go kart battery and forgot i had it on fast charge. next morning i check it and it over flowed acid. i'm getting 8.6v now. can i add water and properly charge it again or is it shot?
did it smell like rotten eggs? if so that means it started to decompose the sulfuric acid also. if you add water you might not help it much, but try mixing a bunch of epsom salt with the water then putting that solution into the battery. the epsom salt should help do what the acid did. unfortunatly i have quite a few batteries that have had this happen and i havent found any good ways to revive them. are the batteries 6v trojan T-105 golf kart batteries?
Restoring 12 volt 12 amp hour batteries that used to have 30amps pulled from it. Can the batteries be used to pull the same amps while restoring the capacity?
hey man I bought 2 brand new sealed batteries 12 volt 55 ah for my wheelchair and never charged them nearly a year ago.... and now they won't charge with my wheelchair charger... so how can I safely recharge them so I can now use them??
Rinoa Super-Genius OK then I'll just go and spend the 2 to 3 dollars I need too to get 2 more brand new batteries..... so what should I do this time to make sure these batteries last for a while...... and I'm gonna be buying 2 12 volt 75 ah batteries for my wheelchair.... do you have any suggestions and how often should I charge them to make them last the longest......??????
You need to fill them with charge, and completely discharge them -- multiple times -- to get them fully reconditioned as much as possible. The plates expand and contract a bit in size with the charge/discharge cycle, which helps 'shake loose' additional lead sulfate which gets deposited onto the surface of the plates over time. As I understand it, you can never really get them to 100% -- some of that sulfate will simply never go back into solution. But the charge/discharge cycle helps to expose as much surface as possible (to the acid) of the lead plates again.
hi, loved this video, convinced me to sub but i would appreciate if you could tell me where you got the end song for this video. searched jersey devil but cant find it. thanks in advance
hi rinoa when you use tap water have it ever exploded. how long do your battery last. also how long to charge the battery.o and when u shut your car off do it start back up or do i have to charge every day. thank u
Yes, it does matter what kind of water you use in your lead acid battery. The only water you should ever use is DISTILLED WATER. Not rain water, or tap water. Rain or tap water has suspended salts and metals in it which will ruin the lead plates and spacers. Distilled water has none of those battery killers, and is required by the manufacturers. Always clean the top of the battery off by brushing off dirt and cleaning the top squeaky clean BEFORE you even open the caps off the cells to avoid contamination of the battery cells. Also, a clean battery top prevents any rust dust from forming on the top to provide a high resistant short between the plus and minus poles, draining the battery slowly and causing sulphation on the lead plates inside the battery.
depends on where you get your tap water from. like around here a battery will last years and years and years just with tap water, but if you go somewhere theres a lot more junk in the water that might not be the case.
Depending on the source of the distilled water, and it's storage, it may also be rather impure. The reverse can occasionally be true of rain water, depending on the atmosphere in which it formed and through which it fell. Rain water if filtered for dust particulate (undissolved) can be quite pure. However almost any tap water is full of mineral salts and much more as mentioned because adding them is part of the treatment process done before it is delivered to you through what are often decades old water mains.
@@m3n4lyf So? Using distilled water means all impurities are filtered from the water by boiling and condensing the water, leaving the impurities left in the boil pot. Some distilled water is also filtered by reverse osmosis after distilling. Just watch the label. Rain water has impurities naturally, because a rain drop is formed around a grain of dust. The grain of dust can be anything, dirt, sand, metallic salts, molecules of ferrous oxide (rust), molecules of radioactive material - all from many different sources, and impure by its makeup. Your Grandpa may have used rain water and got away with it because battery tech was in its infancy back in the day. But now with the many ways a battery can be built, you cannot use anything but distilled water, and it is always recommended by the batteries' manufacturers. Cleaning the battery top with a damp soft cloth or a microfiber towel keeps the dirt/rust off the top that would provide a high impedance path (or "short") that will draw your battery down and shorten its usable life. Using an equalizing charge that boils each cell will partially remove the sulfation from each cell, just replace the boiled off electrolyte to 1/4" above the plates. Electronic desulfators only work on functioning batteries to keep the sulfation at a manageable level, it will not "restore" a dead battery to the minimum 600 CCA needed to start a car. Also, your alternator will NOT charge a dead battery (0V), only a slow charge of 2 amps over time might have a chance. Unless you have a voltage reading of at least 10 V, repurpose the battery for some other use, because if it won't crank your engine - it is DEAD. Repurposed batteries can run household electronics designed for the remaining battery voltage in the car battery - but do so at your own risk. Charge repurposed batteries at the battery voltage, not 12VDC. I've tried all the "miracle cures" that the vultures want you to believe their "cure" will work. They do not, and never will.
@@lomgshorts3 The only thing I am is saying that you never really know how pure that jug of water really is. I make no suggestions on what people do, or should do, and make no statements on the validity of the video(which is laden in bullshit), or the statements of anyone including myself. On an unrelated note: Not everyone on this planet has access to highly pure water at all times, you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. Much love.
@@m3n4lyf OK Zed, sorry to have misunderstood your intent. Lots of people do not read the label on the "Spring Water" they consume only to find out that is filtered municipal water. I've seen so much crap on "rejuvenating" car and deep cycle batteries of all types, that I just want to lash out at the people who believe this stuff that people make on video. They waste more money on trying to save an old battery than it would cost to buy a new battery with a warranty, especially when you figure your time and the KWh your chargers use. I go to Interstate Batteries and buy their "blems" at 1/3 the cost with a 6 month warranty and get 5 to 6 years out of them because I maintain them - keep them squeaky clean, clean the terminals regularly, and use vaseline to keep any corrosion off the terminals and cables. Works great. Right now I'm painting my '90 Ford Ranger undercarriage with Rustoleum hi temp black to keep the frame and floor pans from rusting out. The box is made of fiberglass (came from the factory that way), so it won't rust, but even fiberglass needs care, too. When I got it paid off, I swore to keep it forever. I've been offered 5K for it, but won't sell it cause I've gathered lots of parts for it over the years. Its my daily driver, but I also have a '79 GMC C-1500 with a 350 cu in crate engine and a Turbo 400 tranny I'm working on too. Someday it will be a camper with a DIY camper on the box. Best Regards!
I bought a new 6 volt battery from a diy shop and it had 6 volts, but no amps. Do you think that the manufacturer forgot to fill in the electrolyte, or do you think it is something else?
loved it have a Q , that desulfater you used ,are they buyable somewhere? or are they home made+ if so ,are there kits to buy, cus they are awsome!! thanx for the lesson.
i got it for 20$ on ebay, but i've found that its very week. so if your wanting to maintain a battery it might work ok but might want something with a higher power output to desulfate a bad battery.
Was it hard to make? I looked on ebay and only really saw one that was here in the usa. That was in the 20 dollar range. I see alot of stuff cheap overseas but im kind of leary about buying. Have you ever bought anything from overseas off ebay like that?
I had a maxx 51r in my trunk as a back up for jumping random peoples cars. It tipped for about a month and was completely dry, how can I determine how much sulfuric acid and distilled water to add. Also, adding sulfuric acid directly to water creates extreme amounts of heat. What should I do?
hey, great video. I have a 12v car battery that starts to bubble when charging at approx 12v, 10amps. I've noticed however that one cell does not bubble. after charging it holds 12v until a heavy load is put and causing the voltage to drop to around 10. is it dead?
Hi is it recommended to leave caps off when trying to charge after filling with distilled water?....and then once charged put caps back on ?...also when you use 1 charger to charge multiple 12v batteries in parallel at one time how does charger know when to stop or continue charging?
Hi y'all. What about balancing a car battery, finding the weakest cells and conditioning those? You might need lead long nose crocodile clips to avoid reactions.
i just tried the method of washing out the black gunk in the bottom of mine (small automotive) 8 times with almost hot tap water and bakingsoda for the first 2 times, than a ninth time with di-water. Now it holds the charge again after filling back the filtered acid. The black gunk at the bottom was probably shorting out 1 or 2 cells (when the battery never stays over 10.3V or 8.1V respectively, this could be the cause).
Great info. Subbed a while back and have been slowly working through them all. Question on this one; at 8:50 or so, you disconnect the four batteries from the charger and connect the charger to another battery. Were the four batteries connected in parallel because the charger you're using is a "smart charger", and wouldn't charge them each individually?
hi, I m an electronics technician ( home electronics set top boxes, tv, pc s & laptops ..etc) and mean time a hobbyst on battery stuff as a beginner. lately been watching your informative videos and learned a lot from your experiences so thanks a lot. the question part is I have a single 12V 6A lead acid battery that really weakened and goes down pretty quick. now just because I want to practice on lead acid batteries I want to try your method at 12:30 just wanna know does battery draw a good performance after that or rip ? (sorry for my grammar)
I don’t know why there are so many jerks on the internet with nothing but condescending or mean things to say. They are so brainwashed they can’t handle real human beings being human. Thanks for the video and the information. I appreciate your time and contribution to the UA-cam community. And the music is quirky but completely works.
8:18 Slam dunking the whole battery in a bucket is CRAZY. Not givinga rat'sass!. After watching that I was compelled to hit like, subscribe and the bell icon!
Hay, u were awesome. Being electrical engineer i never tried this a bit. But after accidentally watched your video, i did give life to my 3 year old dead battery. Nice video.
i have seen a lot of battery repair videos in youtube and this one is one of the best if not the best.
"You're a good little battery.. yes you are!!" Love it! I can almost see the little battery smiling! Nice video!
well thank you! was hard to remember what i wanted to film after i waited a week for the battery to desulfate haha. i'm used to filming things all at once.
When taking battery off battery charger will voltage drop
Thanks for the video. I have a question for you. It seems that sulfate between cell is the biggest cuprite for lead-acid going bad. I have a motorcycle battery, EverStart brand, just like one of your battery you were testing with. I just bought this new in May this year. I've used it fine for the summer then I put on a low current charger. This other day I have discovered the charger indicator blinking yellow rather then green. Who knows how long it had been blinking.. I check the battery voltage and it reads 5 volt. So I disconnect and reconnect the charger then two days later it shows green indicator but when I measure the voltage, it shows still 5 volt. The charger must have drained the battery for good. But this battery is new. It is not a case of sulfate build up. Is there any way the battery could be revived? These motorcycle battery only comes with 90 day warranty for whatever reason. Thanks in advance for your help.
I have same junk battery. Only a year old.
@@napieraustin I raised the voltage to 12 volt by connecting the dead battery to my car battery for few hours (or was it few minutes? I cannot remember). Some posts indicated that the charger would not charge unless the battery is up to certain volt. I guess 5 volt was too loo low of voltage to start the charger. These compact charger do not have whole lot of explanation to tell you anything. Anyway, the volt is up to 12 volt and I put on a charger to keep charging. It has been on charger for winter. I will find if the battery is fully restored or not when I connect the battery to the bike this spring. If the CCA is not up, even with the battery volt reading of 12 volt, battery is not usable. Try that!
many of us appreciate this kind of video . thanks for your time and effort
Way to much information, but I do appreciate your knowledge. Most people don't even want to grasp how it works, they just want it to work.
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U need distilled water. Distilled water is a non conductor. Tap water is a conductor of electricity. Tap water doesnt hold a good charge and makes a lot of acid when it evaporates.
Use distilled water only.
i think you are a bit mistaken with that.
but my tests show that regular water will work just fine.
No tap water has salt in it and will rapidly degrade the battery. You should idealy use DI water but distilled water works the same
lishde di water?
De-ionized
Rinoa Super-Genius can u put the caps back on and charge the battery after the water restoration?
on your hard to open maintenance free batterers run a small self taping screw in to the cap and use vice-grips to twist and pull the cap up.
thats a good idea too
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nice! i've had good luck with epsom salt and may try alum someday.
the 3rd 4-wheeler battery i didnt show much in this video is bad along with the 2nd one that was bad. ima connect one to 115v AC and blow it up. then maybe cut them open, remove the plates and turn them into little lockable boxes.
a science in itself. watched the whole lot without getting bored, this here shit is go save me some money! Very clever young man!
Keep doing it brother it’s helping me understand the process.
its called the Wizbang Plus on ebay. only really available on USA and Canada ebay but cost 20$.
this desulfator is the cheepest one you can buy. and it shows. thats why it's held together with a cloths pin and a bunch of solder on it.
it arrived with a capacitor broken off and they just refunded me and let me keep it free. that may be a mistake or they didn't care about me returning it.
btw it does come in a plastic housing, it doesn't come as an open circuit board.
How long can battery life be extended by doing this?
Also, if I decide to just buy new batteries for my 2 jumper packs that are weak/dying, do they HAVE to read “20HR” on them? My jumper pack batteries are labeled; 12V 7AH/20HR and the other is labeled 12V 18AH/20HR… I’ve found identical batteries on Amazon, BUT, NONE of them read “20HR” on them… Confusing…
If you are doing a lot of parallel circuit battery charging, you might consider building a negative busbar and a positive busbar on which to clamp the alligator clips for that workbench. You had multiple alligator clips on other alligator clips.
The direction things are heading, I foresee clothespins with bare wire wrapped on the clamping end on those bars.
You might be able to gut one of those batteries and build a capacitor.
The AGM battery you were trying to fix appears to be an ETX20L (name located on bottom of battery) The caps that you are having issue with are ultrasonically welded, which are not made to be removed or replaced (white marks) or it voids any kind of warranty. The 10.41 volts indicates that it has a hydration short in one of the groups. A hydration short is a wearing away of a spot of the separator material, usually looking like a burn mark. This usually happens when plates were not entirely soaked in acid during filling process. Also, the light grey plates are the negative plates and the dark colored plates are the positive. Adding water to an AGM battery does not "FIX" it. Also, it is a conventional acid, just a different specific gravity compared to an auto. I work at a battery manufacturing plant as quality control. DO NOT TRY WHAT THIS GUY IS DOING TO THE SUPER START BATTERY(ETX20L)
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you are right never really worked much with gel batts and the lead acid batteries we always decapped and blew the hydrogen out before making connections
I was given an 85 amp sealed leisure battery. The level was low so I drilled 6 holes & topped them up with distilled water ( I make my own) then sealed the holes with hot glue & small squares of plastic so can be removed for refilling again & set the charger on pulse repair mode. It's a great battery & can deliver current as I tested it with my 12-volt kettle which draws around 14 amps & it boiled. I also have 2, 126 amp truck batteries which I have also had on pulse repair & inverters to use with ham radio, CB & UHF equipment in an emergency. Now the West is locking horns with Russia One never knows when backup power is needed. We could have our fragile power grid knocked out.
Thank you for the answer. I'm building a solar power system and a desulfator would be a big help. If you know any trucking companies, you could try to get an 8D3 or a 4D3 battery. They're massive, about 100 pounds but have a heck of a reserve. One or two could be a big asset to your shed lighting system.
Solar charge controllers, even a cheap ebay one, combined with solar panel(s), make the best desulfators as they push 1/10 of a volt more than whatever charge is currently on the battery and lead acid likes this. I have saved an older flooded lead acid costco interstate battery that went flat because the car door wasn't shut right, and then the battery was too low voltage to take a charge from the alternator which pushes 14.4 volts. I was going to buy a new battery but just left the 20 watt solar panel and the $12 charge controller on the battery so it would start when I got a chance to go to Costco to buy a new one. It was covid times so I kept putting it off. I did put some distilled water in the battery and I kept the solar on the battery which I noticed was slowly creeping up about 1/10 a volt every day. It took at least a week to get the battery chargeable by the alternator again, but even more time will desultate further. I didn't have to buy a new battery! That was 2 years ago and the battery is still going strong with normal use.
If you connect a piece of solder to your meter probes and dip the solder into the holes where you fill it, they make a mini battery and you can test the individual voltage on each cell.
i don't think its because its a battery. i believe its due to the acid holding a charge also. you can use any type of wire for it. but yeah its something i forgot to put into this video. but i try to make a new video every few months regarding batteries so i'll keep working at it :D
The black battery that you had to pry the strip of caps off from is a gel cell or possibly an AGM or Absorbed Glass Mat battery. In either case, it WAS a sealed battery. The acid is in a gelled state and WAS under slight pressure until you popped the caps. It is made this way so when the water in the gelled cells gasifies, up to a point, it will be reabsorbed as the battery cools. As soon as you popped the caps, you ruined the battery. Also, in a standard car or boat battery, the electrolyte, (acid to you), IS 40% sulfuric and 60% water. NOT 10% to 90 % as you said. You might also want to warn your audience that even short exposure of battery acid in the eyes can cause blindness and to keep baking soda near by to neutralize any spills. BTW, you ruined the AGM battery as soon as you opened it and you can NOT add water or acid to these either. I think you have some more to read up on battery maintenance and chemistry before you hurt yourself or someone really badly. Also, it's a lead PEROXIDE and a lead DIOXIDE coating on the plates. While the plates are pure lead, It's the coatings that make them positive or negative. Lead sulfate does not form BETWEEN the plates, it forms ON the plates. When you desulfate a battery, you don't redissolve it back into the acid, you actually crack the surface of it to allow the acid to come back into contact with the plates. If you feed 15 volts into a wet cell battery, you will overheat it and develop a LOT of gas bubble between the plates which will keep the acid away from them and NOT allow them to charge properly. I believe your heart is in the right place but you are playing with danger when you play with these batteries when you don't know what you're doing. A little knowledge really can be worse than none at all. God bless you and your viewers.
So what voltage should you use to desulfate a wet cell
Hi Sir the 12volt battery that I'm doing has a dead cell & 3 days ago I had emptied the acid out of the battery & then flushed the battery with fresh clean rain water from my 250 liter tank & boil it up in a jug & I added some of the rest of the cold water to the hot boiling water to cool it down a bit to put in the battery & gave it a bit of a shake up & then poured it out of the battery & when I got all of contents out of the battery I then got some more Fresh clean rain water & put it in the jug & boiled it up & I got a pack of baking soda & once the jug boiled & I some cold rain water put into the bottle & the added hot water from the from the jug & added the baking soda & gave it a good shake up & then poured it into the battery & you should have seen the contents bubbling in the battery & let sit overnight & the yesterday morning I emptied the mixture straight out of the battery & forgot to shake up the battery first & got all out of the battery then I did the process all over again & adding baking soda to the hot fresh rainwater & poured it into the battery & I let it sit in battery for about 2 hours & then gave the battery a good shake up & before pouring all the contents out & did same thing again & a total of 6 times with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & on the 6 th time that I did with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & added to the battery I then let it sit overnight & later this morning I has put the caps on the battery & screwed them down & gave the battery a good shake up for a few minutes & then took the caps off the battery & poured the contents out of the battery & once I got the contents I got a bottle of fresh clean rain water & heat it up & poured that straight into the battery & gave it another shake up & poured straight out & moved the battery back & forth while the battery was up side down & then after I had got it all out of the battery & then got plenty of distilled water & boiled that up & then some cold distilled water just to cool it down a little & then added Epsom Salts to the container & gave & once the Epsom Salts had desolved & I poured that into the battery & then I put the Foxsur 12V/24V 7stage battery charge & it's on repair mode & within a few minutes the Epsom Salts with the destilled water started to bubble & as I was looking at each cell some were bubbling & weren't bubbling & then a short time later they were all started to bubble & I said cool I may have fixed the dead cell that was in this battery & when I unplugged the charger leaving the leads connected to the charger & got a reading off the Foxsur charger 8.8 Volts & then about a few minutes later I unplugged the charger & got a reading of 9.1 Volts & so its coming up &.its been now a few hours now but it's raining at the present time not nice at all & will have to check it again at a later after the rain has stopped & here's hoping that I may have restored this battery & I hope so anyway Kind Regards Peter
Thank you! It's nice to find someone with more real tech know how than most of the videos by mouth breathers.
I'm a mouth believer.
WOW you lifted that battery very easy at the start of the video :)
hahaha thats because it's not a battery anymore.
Hahaha ok
Must be something in the breakfast.
I was looking for this comment after seeing that. Was trying to lift an old 74Ah battery from car and move it to my garage and goddam the battery weight alike almost 40 lbs and I was worried if it’s handle would snap. And I see this guy lifting the battery like it’s nothing!😁🤦🏻♂️
Thank you for answering the question I had"it could take up to a day 1/2 to fully 100% charge a battery from a complete dead state.
Just FYI 10v is a bad sign, it usually means a bad cell if the 1 volt is young enough I'd rather try it, most chargers will not charge batteries below 11volts, anything lower looks like a 6v to the charger, you can trick the charger by linking in another good battery by putting the pos on one, and the neg on the other then use alligator clips to link both positives together then another to the negs. Also don't add water to SLA batteries, shake it if it rattles you're done. I work at batteries plus
you dont seem to know much about batteries then. i have a deep cycle that was at 4v and once revived now has about a 1/4 of it's capacity. some of the batteries i weld with where bellow 8v once, so they are still very useful.
and as for adding water to SLAs, an sla will vent off its water over time and will try out. so yes adding water to an sla will help. you did watch the video right?
haha well thanks. i put that in for the people who stumble across my channel since my battery videos get me like 90% of my subs and views.
i plan on remaking this video every year or so and each version will get better and better and i'll also refine my method.
it seems as though my desulfated batteries sometimes don't get past 12.4ish volts. you think i should mess with adding epsom salt? i think the issue is the sulfuric acid has turned into useless chemicals and so the acid is less potent.
Great video. I have a 48 volt golf cart, 5 years old and the batteries last only about 16 vs 25 miles when new. I want to desulfate them using a battery pulse system like yours. Did you build yours, since there is no casing around the electronics. Amazon sells the BLS-48A desulfator, which the manufacturer recommends to mount in the golf cart and desulfate continuously. Any recommendations?
Great video! Great description and presentation! This is a great solution for poor people like me! I don't throw anything away! Gonna try some of these things on some dead batteries I have! Thanks!😎
i use the 200amp start on my battery charger to boil them for a bit,i have saved alot of batteries. i did one the other day that started at .8volts. its working well in the riding mower. takes a few hours. A DC arc welder also work for desulphating.
Good video brother.. should try empty batteries.. mix baking soda 1 cup per 1 gallon of distilled water fill up batteries wait for reaction to stop do this 2 or 3 times last time half way shake to get rid up crap.. now flush with hose water obviously shake the hell out of it then last flush with distilled water also shake .. now add new acid O'Reilly 25 bucks for 5 gallons pre mixed sulfuric acid for batteries now charge on Trickle 24 hours.. you could also do the Epson salt idea but Alum Granulated Powder food grade work much much better also 1 cup per 1 gallon you can heat that up over oven on low until all dissolved qait until its cooled to add to batteries.. a hydrometer helps to check the gravity.. you seem very skilled with electric
They what a great how to video. Learned a lot.
Are you charging all those batteries at the same time? Wired in parallel?
Rinoa, great videos. Thanks. Have you seen any of those videos where people are "converting" old lead-acid batteries to "lead-alum" by dumping out the acid, rinsing and adding a mixture of alum and water?
What do you think? I just tried it on a car battery that had been seriously over charged when the voltage regulator in my alternator went bad. It boiled the battery dry but even after refilling it with water and charging it, it would not even engage the starter. Now it is a bit better but still will not quite start the car. It would be awesome if a person like you with knowledge and testing equipment, could do some experimenting to see if this "conversion" idea is any good.
yeah i've been thinking about doing that. unfortunatly lead-alum batteries seem to not be good for starting engines. they are lower voltage and dont give as many amps. better for like solar-powered stuff.
Shurely I wouldn’t be the first person to say you sound exactly like Steve Buscemi. Great video btw.
shurely?
technically using distilled water is ideal.. but I know enough about impurities in the manufacturing processes that lead me to believe the impact on cheap / already dead batteries is quite minimal. I just run water through a pur filter and dump it in. Usually a battery will come back somewhat but capacity will not return unless you run desalination. For kick started motorcycles this is not a huge issue, but for electric start ones it can be.
Stupid question, but what type of container are you using to fill the batteries, with the internal straw and spout?
Thanks
Hockey water bottle
Nice video until I got to 15:45 and the desulfator. You connect the desulfator to two batteries, the charged one and the sulfated battery. The sulfate crystals are an insulator, (correct?) Doesn't that mean the desulfator will desulfinate the charged battery which doesn't need to be desulfinated? (Everything is in parallel.)
Why don't you measure the specific gravity of the cells?
You did a nice job. Thanks
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to make this video. Has anyone ever said that you sound a bit like the actor Steve Buscemi?
I was wandering , since I tried this and it worked relatively well, if you add too much Epsom salt mixture will the voltage go up too much because after I put the mixture in, shake the batteries and charge them they hold at about 16 volts which is just too much to use a inverter like I want to but hopefully there is a fix for it.
Thanks!!!
Alex Sohl adding too much epsom salt increases the reactivity of the electrolyte a lot. it will dissolve the lead plates a lot more and shorten the battery life. best fix is to just remove some electrolyte with a syringe or something and replace the liquid you removed with regular water to dilute it. thats crazy that your batteries held at 16v haha.
Ok cool glad the fix is easy and that 16 volts was just really confusing me. Well thanks for the help!!!
Alex Sohl Adding epson salts is a bad idea, it will make things worse and any chance of getting that battery back to life will not last long, it will burn out that battery fastter, the life span will be shorter and you will have to replace that battery sooner, the best way to get a old battery charger or one that sends a pulse charge into the battery but the best way is to desulfar the battery, adding anything to the water is not a good idea, if your going to add anything to a battery is to go to an auto shop and see if they will sell you battery acid, some will sell it to you and some will have you buy it in bulk, like in my home town i got to get a 5gl jug that will cost me $30 canadian, but never ever and anything to your water
ray leclair right... it will shorten the life of your old dead battery...
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The one that had the name on the tape requires you to cut the plastic around the top of the round plastic caps. It will hace tiny thin strips around the hole for venting but the caps will be connect between the vent slits. They are a pain in the arse to get out and they dont fit back in with gluing or plastic welding
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I have a 12v energizer battery for my lawn tractor. It somewhat held a charge before so I just filled it with water. It took 16 ounces so I'm hoping it will charge well
Hello great video! I wonder if you could screw a screw into that one cap you couldn't get off and pull the screw out with vice grips?
Resting voltage for a good battery is between 12.6 to 13.0 V. If the voltage is any less after sitting 24 hours, then the battery is sulphated. A "desulphator circuit" has to carry at least 5 amps of current to have any effect at all. If the resting voltage is less than 10 V, then the battery should be a core charge for a new battery, no recovery is possible. I've been through it all, tried many reconditioning tricks, powders, alum crystals, and almost none of them worked. The only try that did work (temporarily), was to empty the battery of the old acid, use baking soda saturated in distiled water to get rid of the sulphation on the plates, then add fresh acid to the battery. This worked for six months, but it ate the plates away and shorted two cells. The best thing to do to keep a battery working is to keep it clean, use distilled water only to fill a cell that has gone down. Never fill a cell more than 1/4 to 1/2" above the plates, the extra water, if you filled it to the top, dilutes the acid and makes the battery weaker. Clean the battery top with distilled water and a soft cloth untill it shines, any dirt or dust has a high concentration of rust, causing a high resistence short between the posts putting excessive stress on the battery and alternator. This shortens the life of the battery and alternator. A clean battery, no corrosion on the connections will make your battery last one or two years past it's expected life. I have an Exide "blem" in my truck that was only guaranteed for one year five years ago, and it still cranks the engine like when it was new. Enough proof for me.
Where did you get that desulfator and your power supply? How much do they cost?
that is a good question ###
I'm a grown man worked on cars all my life ....waisted money on new batteries cuz I never took time to understand that they were just thirsty.....learned sum thing from a child.....keep your head high kid
Sulfuric acid and water in a batter is "electrolyte". From what I recall a mixture of 40-60, is electrolyte. 40 percent acid 60 percent H2O. Also, use distilled water.
Let do 30% acid and 70% distilled water
You can use lemon juice and a mixture of Epsom salt with lemon juice you could use that it might take a little while to put out a charge even on a sulfated battery this trick works I've used it sometimes in an emergencies that trick works just be careful when doing it.
Nice video. However; to make it more useful or for a follow-on, you might address the causes of dead batteries. For instance; I have a Delco car battery that is 48 series, that was simply neglected. It is not old, but I let it get deep discharged more than once. Now, it won't take a charge, even though the interior lights come on (thus, it puts out at least 12 volts, right?). Does improper deep discharging cause sulfating... as well asage of the batery? Do I build a de-sulfater? Buy it? Where? Thanks again for an informative video.
you prolly warped the plates if you discharged it that much. but its the same as being old. idk experiment with it.
Just stumbled into your presentation and enjoy and learned something. Does epson salt really works?
yes it acts like battery acid to some extent
nice, i'm kinda just getting any batteries i come across. would love some 8D's though. tbh i got more than enough capacity for now, i just gotta work on my solar panels. i remember Jamie Hyneman (mythbuster) talking about his experiance with 8Ds going dead on his boat. that was in a podcast on Tested.
i know starting batteries arent the best but oh well they are free. deep cycles are harder to find for free. btw did you just change your icon? your old comment has a differant icon. weird.
Lovely Video clip! Forgive me for chiming in, I would appreciate your opinion. Have you researched - Rozardner Powerful Battery Reality (search on google)? It is a smashing one of a kind guide for learning how to recondition an old battery minus the normal expense. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my friend Sam at very last got amazing results with it.
very nice video. thank you! i have a question i have a maintenance free battery 35 Ah, it's around 12.5 v. i wanted to charge it but didn't know the standard charger (transformer + diodes is not good). I let it reach 15.13v then disconnected. I noticed a little bulge in one side of the battery around 3mm. i don't know if i caused it or it was like that. can i still charge it on a inteligent charger with desulfation?? i don't know how toi take off the caps. read on the internet that they can't be taken off and that it has special design to release the gases. the budge is soft and i can press on it. the eye is still green and i dont want to damage it
it's maintenance free with calcium- CARANDA manufacturer. 35Ah, oh and now after 2-3 hours it staying at 13.5 v
hrmm have you seen my video "DIY open car battery and repair with epsom salt"? is your battery like the one i open in that video?
i don't think charging it would make the bulge unless it got very hot. 15v is pretty high but it depends on how many amps you where feeding into it. ussually i charge a battery with 700milliamps untill it reaches 14v or so. ussually takes a few days.
is the bulge on the sides or the front/back of the battery? its normal for plates to push out on the casing and bulge it but it can mean its getting closer to the end of its life.
is it AGM? it looks like the battery is prety good compaired to others ive seen.
Rinoa Super-Genius
NICE VID! Thanx! Seen it! That said....
I think you'd be better off with ALUM powder STRAIGHT OUT...
Than with Epsom Salt. 8 ounces of ALUM per gallon of water!
Watch THIS guy!
/watch?v=Supe1a3LW2U
He also rinses the battery clean FIRST...
With 8 ounces BAKING SODA to a gallon of water!
I think he's using just REGULAR WATER TOO!
And his battery goes back to 13.2V... AND HOLDS IT... UNPLUGGED! ;-)
Mind you! IT IS... a deep cycle battery, or so he mentions!
You have a video on making that desulphater?Really great info btw
The battery you just filled up with water is an AGM battery.How would have tried to charge it with the caps up to see what would actually happen?
Excellent video. Can I reconditionan MAXXIMA 900DC EXIDE battery? I cannot figure out if it is an AGM battery or not, because on the battery case is written . "Use a constant voltage of 14.4 +/- 0.2 for charging". For this reason I am not shure that is a regular AGM battery.
If you start making those diesel features and they work I'll buy one from you man you get rich. Awesome video
You add salt to distilled water with high voltage for HHO'S. And it's the salt that makes it conductive not the water.
If you put tap water in your batteries just once it will be garbage in a year.
Distilled water you can get much longer life span on your batteries and fill it more than once and get 6 years or more on 1 battery.
Just trying to help.
well i have been putting tap water in my batteries for like 3 years. so i guess that throws your 2nd statement out the window pretty fast. hahaha
the battery in my great-grandparents 1982 mercury Zephyr lasted 23 years and my great-grandpa only refilled it with tap water from his shed.
Rinoa Super-Genius and that shed watter contained all the parts required to feed the battery and even rebuilt the plates and contained what we call magic. lol nah yeah fuckin pisses me off how like 10 years ago now i geuss. the batterys here in australia all started dieing within a year or soon after. and it was like but normaly they last 6 or 7 years ? now i go into battery store asking what they would recomend. and they say well batterys are all shit these days so its best you just buy a new one every 2 years. im like ohh ok thank you for your tremendous help. I have an infitum desulfater thats managed to bring back 7 alarm batterys and 5 car batterys . altho 3 alarm batters shorted from inside and caught fire. which i found entertaining. still tho even now that they all holding around 13.1 volt off charge wonce i power up the inverter... its draining them dead so fast. fine durin the day due to my 200watt solar panel. my main problem I simply havnt managed to hold the power i make at the panel. but i thought Id learn all asspect of batterys before makin a big purchase for a few deep cycles :) nice vids mate keep it up . have a nice day
Jesse Lawton
wtf are you trying to say? your comments are hard to read. you shouldnt just mash a bunch of sequential thoughts together. its hard to understand.
haha i didn't even notice that. i tend not to look at warning labels too much.
and yeh i am going to make like a big power strip and some cables. the cables will have a plug on one end and two aligator clips on the other side. that way i can connect or disconnect each battery if i wanted. but i'm only gonna worry about that when i get a good source of power like my solar panels and such.
Great video !!! And what if you have a shorted cell ???? What can you do to fix that???
Thanks for the informations!
idk of any way to fix a shorted cell without opening the battery. and once you open a battery its hard to get them back together. so i would say the best way to fix a shorted battery is to
A; buy a new battery
or
B: chop one cell from another car battery and run it in series with your now 10v car battery to give you 12v again. i've seen that done before.
Rinoa Super-Genius Thanks for your quick response !!! Please let me ask one more question-information: Your desulfator is ''always-forever'' conected to your battery bank of your solar project??? So the desulfator takes ''charge-current'' from the solar panels???
Thanks again, i am so appreciated!!!
tolias Gaz
yeah the desulfator usses 80ma of current, but thats super small.
Rinoa Super-Genius
Thanks friend!! I have for you one more big deal------NINTENDO or SEGA????
tolias Gaz
nintendo, old sega was close to nintendo but new sega is a joke. you?
very good video,spot on the coductivity .want to start some day with a desulfating device myself here....
Hope you received those boat batteries.
Have a good one Rinoa.
Ciao...!
Hi liked the video. New to all this and wondered how to make the desulfater you used? Hopefully spelling is right. Anyway maybe a location to buy one. Thanks
I got that one for 20$ from eBay and its really weak. but I haven't built any good ones myself yet.
I did try something that was promessing though. I built a circuit that would charge a cap to 30v then dump it into the battery as a high amp burst.
That's when you start using Epsom.Salt water to try to get that to find out what it will take and where it will not take if it recognizes it?
How much capacity recovered with your methods? Please answer! Thanks.
U can start an electrical fire with tap water.
After the engine starts (with a tap water battery) it will charge the battery and voltage will go through the tap water and plates and burn wires in the engine.
Electricity takes the shortest path.
no, the particles dissolved into the tap water may be more conductive if you have nasty water. but it is usually no more conductive than distilled water. please stop spreading misinformation and read some chemistry books. it would help you in life ^^
+MDTV Tube just stop
tap water freezes you dum Fuck!
MDTV Tube
yes it does, are you really that dumb that you think your the only person who knows that water freezes?
Great video, just need to find some batteries and possibly a charger with a desulfation function im sure new/electronic chargers have. When it comes to batteries/electronics you can never have enough information
thanks for enjoying it :D
i am starting to feel a bit guilty that i'm focusing on batteries a bit much and not being as diverse as i'd wish. but oh well i'm obsessed with batteries for now so i'll just make a bunch of battery videos haha.
First video I’ve seen from you and love the ponytail
thats a shame, this was before my gender transition. hope this video didnt make too much of an impression.
Turning up the voltage to hear the acid "sizzle" is a very good way of overheating the plates and warping them, creating a "short" and destroying the battery's performance!
I thought you knew what you were doing!!!
video was not too long. Good info is worth it. Thanks
Dude you are amazing. I love your videos! Amazing content!!!! I’m subscribing for sure !!!!
Keep it up dude , just always remember too alway practice safety
might help having an analog charger to put on these, and/or and pulse desulphator
IVe worked 2 1/2 years at a battery shop. battery fluid is 1/3 sulfuric acid and 2/3s distilled water. not 10% acid and 90% water totally wrong!
Any insight into the industrial re-manufacturing process? Is that generally just a separation of individual materials, and starting from scratch?
usually agm / gel batteries die from loss of water rather than cell shortout ... so they are more likely to revive after watering them :-)
yeah
That second one ypu must have had the polarity crossed on your test leads because it said -5.?? Volts or it switched polarity internally. Ive seen many small batteries reverse polarity but never ccx any big ones.
The red light really needs to be incorporated into the new apartment some how. I miss seeing it at night on the old e bike
Agreed, I need to get a lot of stuff over here. I may end up getting a workshop here, unsure what I want.
Quick question,
1. under what condition of the battery the "desulfator" is required?
2. I measured each cell of my battery, from right to left, it start with negative voltage, then v1.02, v2,40, v4.43, v6.3, v9.7. Is my battery shorted?
3. If 2 is yes, is it fixable you think?
Those are weird voltages, your battery only has five cells and is 10v? Anyway batteries begin to sulfate as soon as they are filled with acid. If they have been used constantly then they prolly won't get too sulfated for several years. But if the battery has been allowed to sit long enough for voltage ( at least a few weeks) to drop then it is prolly sulfated.
But you could try a little bit of Epsom salt and if that little bit helps could add more. Its up to you. I don't,t see any reason you could,t desulfate it after adding Epsom salt.
Rinoa Super-Genius
sounds to me like a cell has reversed voltage, that's a dangerous state for any battery
Hyratel This battery originally used for a motor scooter. I am not sure how this battery would wind up "reverse voltage" state, but my question is if this battery is revive-able?? If not, I guess I'll just discard it and buy a new one.
MessyGreasy Hand funnily anof the only scooter battery iv tryed to revive had cell reading that made my jaw drop. i was like whoo what? then charged it... thort hmm its sure behaving oddly . then felt battery.. boiling. took of charger. few seconds later the battery has a flame coming out of it lol
MessyGreasy Hand No, it can explode if you continue to charge it and is not recoverable
Get a dremel to remove the caps on the battery with the matting that can be installed any way you want
Sir William was playing around with it when we met, do you remember?" Jack said to Clare. "He was storing charges in boxes.
one technique i've had good results with many sulphated batteries is :
set power-supply current limit to 0.1 amps.
wind the power-supply volts up enough to force current flow. I've used 50v or more.
** do this outside in case of fire or BANG.
** turn power-supply off FIRST BEFORE disconnecting battery. Safety glasses recommended!
with a bad battery it may take a month . . Charging Volt should drop to 12 to 13V.
do not charge at higher rates until resting batt volt is around 12v or so.
I've never tried a desulphater, I didn't think they worked?
Richard “charging volt should drop to 12 or 13v”. What does this mean
the last reply was short because i had to go to bed lol but using my logic you should take some small samples off the acid and use some litmus paper or solution to see if the solution of acid and water has weakened or even neutralized due to age and my miracle battery desulphator was a bedini motor it would usually only take a week and its like a brand new battery again but not all batterys are capable of being revived but otherwise good luck for the future repairs :)
rinoa, awesome video. i just sat through it but i'd like a copy on my laptop to save for reference. i figured it out with the power of google however. thanks for sharing your wisdom. do how have a line on how one can make/get a desulfator for cheap?
the cheeper you buy them the quicker they fail or dont work at all. you could prolly make one really easilly.
#1 your awesome. #2 i need your advice please. i was charging my go kart battery and forgot i had it on fast charge. next morning i check it and it over flowed acid. i'm getting 8.6v now. can i add water and properly charge it again or is it shot?
did it smell like rotten eggs? if so that means it started to decompose the sulfuric acid also. if you add water you might not help it much, but try mixing a bunch of epsom salt with the water then putting that solution into the battery. the epsom salt should help do what the acid did.
unfortunatly i have quite a few batteries that have had this happen and i havent found any good ways to revive them. are the batteries 6v trojan T-105 golf kart batteries?
Rinoa Super-Genius damn, yes it smelt bad. its 12v cycle tron.
james beck thanks for your quick reply, your videos are very helpful.
Restoring 12 volt 12 amp hour batteries that used to have 30amps pulled from it. Can the batteries be used to pull the same amps while restoring the capacity?
hey man I bought 2 brand new sealed batteries 12 volt 55 ah for my wheelchair and never charged them nearly a year ago.... and now they won't charge with my wheelchair charger... so how can I safely recharge them so I can now use them??
+Brian Mendell you fucked your batteries, simple as that.
Rinoa Super-Genius OK then I'll just go and spend the 2 to 3 dollars I need too to get 2 more brand new batteries..... so what should I do this time to make sure these batteries last for a while...... and I'm gonna be buying 2 12 volt 75 ah batteries for my wheelchair.... do you have any suggestions and how often should I charge them to make them last the longest......??????
You need to fill them with charge, and completely discharge them -- multiple times -- to get them fully reconditioned as much as possible. The plates expand and contract a bit in size with the charge/discharge cycle, which helps 'shake loose' additional lead sulfate which gets deposited onto the surface of the plates over time. As I understand it, you can never really get them to 100% -- some of that sulfate will simply never go back into solution. But the charge/discharge cycle helps to expose as much surface as possible (to the acid) of the lead plates again.
hi, loved this video, convinced me to sub but i would appreciate if you could tell me where you got the end song for this video. searched jersey devil but cant find it. thanks in advance
oh i'm sorry i forgot i used that song, that is by C418 (the guy who made minecraft's music) C418 - Minimal
Rinoa Super-Genius thanks for that, your amazing. i'ts too bad i live in the uk otherwise i'd love to visit, swim across the Atlantic if i have to.
*****
yes that is called jump starting, it is very common. are you just trolling now?
hi rinoa when you use tap water have it ever exploded. how long do your battery last. also how long to charge the battery.o and when u shut your car off do it start back up or do i have to charge every day. thank u
Yes, it does matter what kind of water you use in your lead acid battery. The only water you should ever use is DISTILLED WATER. Not rain water, or tap water. Rain or tap water has suspended salts and metals in it which will ruin the lead plates and spacers. Distilled water has none of those battery killers, and is required by the manufacturers. Always clean the top of the battery off by brushing off dirt and cleaning the top squeaky clean BEFORE you even open the caps off the cells to avoid contamination of the battery cells. Also, a clean battery top prevents any rust dust from forming on the top to provide a high resistant short between the plus and minus poles, draining the battery slowly and causing sulphation on the lead plates inside the battery.
depends on where you get your tap water from. like around here a battery will last years and years and years just with tap water, but if you go somewhere theres a lot more junk in the water that might not be the case.
Depending on the source of the distilled water, and it's storage, it may also be rather impure. The reverse can occasionally be true of rain water, depending on the atmosphere in which it formed and through which it fell. Rain water if filtered for dust particulate (undissolved) can be quite pure. However almost any tap water is full of mineral salts and much more as mentioned because adding them is part of the treatment process done before it is delivered to you through what are often decades old water mains.
@@m3n4lyf So? Using distilled water means all impurities are filtered from the water by boiling and condensing the water, leaving the impurities left in the boil pot. Some distilled water is also filtered by reverse osmosis after distilling. Just watch the label.
Rain water has impurities naturally, because a rain drop is formed around a grain of dust. The grain of dust can be anything, dirt, sand, metallic salts, molecules of ferrous oxide (rust), molecules of radioactive material - all from many different sources, and impure by its makeup. Your Grandpa may have used rain water and got away with it because battery tech was in its infancy back in the day. But now with the many ways a battery can be built, you cannot use anything but distilled water, and it is always recommended by the batteries' manufacturers. Cleaning the battery top with a damp soft cloth or a microfiber towel keeps the dirt/rust off the top that would provide a high impedance path (or "short") that will draw your battery down and shorten its usable life. Using an equalizing charge that boils each cell will partially remove the sulfation from each cell, just replace the boiled off electrolyte to 1/4" above the plates. Electronic desulfators only work on functioning batteries to keep the sulfation at a manageable level, it will not "restore" a dead battery to the minimum 600 CCA needed to start a car. Also, your alternator will NOT charge a dead battery (0V), only a slow charge of 2 amps over time might have a chance. Unless you have a voltage reading of at least 10 V, repurpose the battery for some other use, because if it won't crank your engine - it is DEAD.
Repurposed batteries can run household electronics designed for the remaining battery voltage in the car battery - but do so at your own risk. Charge repurposed batteries at the battery voltage, not 12VDC. I've tried all the "miracle cures" that the vultures want you to believe their "cure" will work. They do not, and never will.
@@lomgshorts3 The only thing I am is saying that you never really know how pure that jug of water really is. I make no suggestions on what people do, or should do, and make no statements on the validity of the video(which is laden in bullshit), or the statements of anyone including myself. On an unrelated note: Not everyone on this planet has access to highly pure water at all times, you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. Much love.
@@m3n4lyf OK Zed, sorry to have misunderstood your intent. Lots of people do not read the label on the "Spring Water" they consume only to find out that is filtered municipal water. I've seen so much crap on "rejuvenating" car and deep cycle batteries of all types, that I just want to lash out at the people who believe this stuff that people make on video. They waste more money on trying to save an old battery than it would cost to buy a new battery with a warranty, especially when you figure your time and the KWh your chargers use. I go to Interstate Batteries and buy their "blems" at 1/3 the cost with a 6 month warranty and get 5 to 6 years out of them because I maintain them - keep them squeaky clean, clean the terminals regularly, and use vaseline to keep any corrosion off the terminals and cables. Works great. Right now I'm painting my '90 Ford Ranger undercarriage with Rustoleum hi temp black to keep the frame and floor pans from rusting out. The box is made of fiberglass (came from the factory that way), so it won't rust, but even fiberglass needs care, too. When I got it paid off, I swore to keep it forever. I've been offered 5K for it, but won't sell it cause I've gathered lots of parts for it over the years. Its my daily driver, but I also have a '79 GMC C-1500 with a 350 cu in crate engine and a Turbo 400 tranny I'm working on too. Someday it will be a camper with a DIY camper on the box. Best Regards!
I bought a new 6 volt battery from a diy shop and it had 6 volts, but no amps. Do you think that the manufacturer forgot to fill in the electrolyte, or do you think it is something else?
Ok thanks I guess ill try ordering something and see how it goes. Have you ever tryed epson salt on a fiberglass mat battery?
+Chris Harder he has
loved it have a Q , that desulfater you used ,are they buyable somewhere? or are they home made+ if so ,are there kits to buy, cus they are awsome!! thanx for the lesson.
i got it for 20$ on ebay, but i've found that its very week. so if your wanting to maintain a battery it might work ok but might want something with a higher power output to desulfate a bad battery.
thanx , i might lok in to it then. you got some good vid up , keep it up.
Was it hard to make? I looked on ebay and only really saw one that was here in the usa. That was in the 20 dollar range. I see alot of stuff cheap overseas but im kind of leary about buying. Have you ever bought anything from overseas off ebay like that?
i buy tons of things from ebay overseas.
I had a maxx 51r in my trunk as a back up for jumping random peoples cars. It tipped for about a month and was completely dry, how can I determine how much sulfuric acid and distilled water to add. Also, adding sulfuric acid directly to water creates extreme amounts of heat. What should I do?
hey, great video. I have a 12v car battery that starts to bubble when charging at approx 12v, 10amps. I've noticed however that one cell does not bubble. after charging it holds 12v until a heavy load is put and causing the voltage to drop to around 10. is it dead?
Hi is it recommended to leave caps off when trying to charge after filling with distilled water?....and then once charged put caps back on ?...also when you use 1 charger to charge multiple 12v batteries in parallel at one time how does charger know when to stop or continue charging?
Hi y'all. What about balancing a car battery, finding the weakest cells and conditioning those? You might need lead long nose crocodile clips to avoid reactions.
is there any way to fix shorted cells?
no you cant..
i just tried the method of washing out the black gunk in the bottom of mine (small automotive) 8 times with almost hot tap water and bakingsoda for the first 2 times, than a ninth time with di-water. Now it holds the charge again after filling back the filtered acid. The black gunk at the bottom was probably shorting out 1 or 2 cells (when the battery never stays over 10.3V or 8.1V respectively, this could be the cause).
Great info. Subbed a while back and have been slowly working through them all. Question on this one; at 8:50 or so, you disconnect the four batteries from the charger and connect the charger to another battery. Were the four batteries connected in parallel because the charger you're using is a "smart charger", and wouldn't charge them each individually?
hi, I m an electronics technician ( home electronics set top boxes, tv, pc s & laptops ..etc) and mean time a hobbyst on battery stuff as a beginner.
lately been watching your informative videos and learned a lot from your experiences so thanks a lot.
the question part is I have a single 12V 6A lead acid battery that really weakened and goes down pretty quick. now just because I want to practice on lead acid batteries I want to try your method at 12:30
just wanna know does battery draw a good performance after that or rip ? (sorry for my grammar)
Most of these videos don't work and if they do it's only temporary...