Re: battery

Posted by Jon Hagen on August 09, 2007 at 17:04:16 from (12.175.230.36):

In Reply to: Re: battery posted by Gerald J. on August 09, 2007 at 07:57:36:

I have a new garden tractor battery that I allowed to lay around for almost two years when the intended project evaporated. This spring the 4 year old battery in my garden tractor died. I got the new battery that had lain around for a couple of years and tried to charge it. No luck my no maintenence abuse had the plates sulphated up solid, would only accept a fraction of 1 amp charge and would only spin the garden tractor engine 1 turn before being exhausted. I put my batteryMINDer charger/desulphator sold by Northern tool on it and let it try to trickel a charge into those sulphated plates. I would try to crank the tractor every couple of hours. At first, 1 turn was all it would make. after a day of charging and cranking it was up to about 10 seconds cranking time. after another day of charging/cranking every two hours, it would crank for 20-30 seconds. I then left it alone and after 2 more days the charger had it full charged and kicked into the desulphate mode. I left the desulphator peck away at the sulphation for another 10 days at the end of which the battery seems to be back to full new capacity. If the sulphation is not severe enough to have penetrated a seperator and shorted a cell, you can often bring them back to very near full capacity with one of those little desulphator devices. I use them mostly on my farm equipment that sees seasonal use and sit unused for most of the year. The little charger/desulphators,applied every month or two, keep the battery fully charged and remove any sulphation build up.

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