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Jim Adney
 
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:37:30 GMT "Chris F."
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I found a website that had plans for a "desulfator" that claims to be able
to revive at least a small percentage of such dead batteries. These
batteries probably failed from sulfation, as they were hardly used and kept
in storage for years. I'll give it a try sometime.


Sulfation can be cured by long slow trickle charging, but cells which
have actually dried out can only be fixed by adding water. In most gel
cells and starved lead acid cells this is difficult, if not
impossible.

Unfortunately, the onex I had were dried out, and even after cutting
one of them open, I couldn't figure out any reasonable way to get
water in there without destroying them.

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Jim Adney
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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