Rejuvinating Lead/Acid Batterys - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jun 2004

On Jun 27, 13:17, Marvin Johnston wrote:
...

 I just found out about a new type of battery charger called the
 BatteryMinder that will (it is claimed) rejuvenate Lead/Acid batteries
...
  that are dead due to sulphating. A friend of mine used
one on a battery
...
  that had been totally discharged for too long, and was
able to recover
...
  it. 
I expect this uses some sort of high-frequency (very short duration)
high-current pulses to overcome the sulphating.  The idea has been
around for a while, and it does work.  See, for example,

    http://www.flex.com/~kalepa/desulf.htm

which has links to a lot of information.

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