Battery Chargers

Paul;

I picked up a couple of those little trickle chargers from Harbor
Freight. You need to watch the catalogs, as the price varies from
$8.99 to $14.99 for the same thing!!! These are a must have for those
gas recombant (sp?) batteries everyone things are so good.

The batteries may have come up in voltage, but were they able to take
a load and bounce back in a reasonable amount of time?



On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:30:02 -0000, "Paul Sengupta"
wrote:

Jim Weir had a design to bring sulphated batteries back to life.

I would guess that you don't need to do it if the battery is ok in
the first place.

I've got a 300mA 13.5V top-up thing I bought, just a constant
trickle charge, and I've actually found that I've brought a couple
of "dead" batteries back to serviceable condition by leaving that
on for a couple of weeks (car batteries).

Paulu

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
news
I have heard
about "pulse chargers" that reportedly reduce sulfate on the battery
plates.
Would using one of these make a meaningful difference in battery life?

Yes, absolutely, that was my measure. One of my cars
has an electrical fault which runs down the battery in a
few days, so it's a good test! :-) Haven't had time to
track down the fault yet.

Another I let run on empty for a while as I was abroad
for a few months a couple of years ago. I thought I was
going to be back so I didn't disconnect the battery. They
stopped the flights home! So. I came back four months
later to a completely dead battery. Normal charging did
nothing, it wouldn't keep a charge. I bought a new battery
and put the old one on trickle charge for a few weeks (!)
after which it was as good as the new one.

Paul

"Stu Gotts" wrote in message
...
The batteries may have come up in voltage, but were they able to take
a load and bounce back in a reasonable amount of time?