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Re: replacement battery questions [message #323433 is a reply to message #323380] Wed, 06 September 2017 08:49 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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Another thing many of you may have heard/read about is electronic de-sulfaters.
This is a device that passes high voltage and high frequency DC pulses into the battery that is supposed to make the sulfate (PbSO4 turn back into lead sulfite (PbSO2) which is far more soluble in the electrolyte. (Or so I was told - chemistry is not one of my long suits.)

I have been playing with one of these (purchased off Ebay) for about a couple of years now. It seems to have about a 50% success rate and that only if the battery has not been killed totally dead.

Matt


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