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Battery Desulfation

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Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:21 pm

Battery Desulfation

well,it's that time of the year for us in the western hemisphere - winter.Today i experienced my first dead-battery this year.Thinking on this,and idly googling,i found this:desulfator

judging by testimonials from both private and commercial sources,the device is highly effective at keeping batteries at peak performance and restoring old batteries that no longer charge.its about $50 US worth of parts,or about $50 dollars for a commercially made model which is about the cost of a new battery!there must be some dark conspiracy by the battery/automaker alliance to keep these out of cars,because they obviously work just based on how many people are building their own

i dunno,was that off topic?

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:50 pm

Northern hemisphere you mean!

I've never had a dead battery in 20+ years of driving, but then the various Tawmobiles have usually been kept in nice warm garages and have always been very well maintained, your Mullah not being enamoured of the rip-off prices at dealerships for services. But the stuff on the desulfator is very interesting and I might well invest in one or even knock one up myself, they don't look too complicated. Then i can make some extra coin getting other people's batteries going!

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:03 pm

You've already posted your message once, no need to duplicate the posting! Seems the mullah isn't so perfect after all.

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:14 pm

akshuly my rubbish NTL broadband (which is a pile of donkey-pooh) is playing up something rotten and is taking forever to refresh the pages so it's happening quite a lot at the moment. awful network, i'm scrapping it at the end of the month.

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:56 pm

Dead battery eh? Sounds like the start of things to come to me, first the battery, then the belts, shocks, plugs, damn car will start to cost a fortune just to keep going and before you know where you are you will have spent enough to akshly buy a new one in the first place. Now sir, if you would care to come with with me a moment perhaps you might feast your eyes on this little number, just arrived in, one careful owner infact, a nun of all things, and my cousing believe it or not...

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:42 pm

i've already had to replace the coil in my blazer, the battery was replaced before i paid for it so i don't think i'll have a problem this year
i just read the first page from the results that is a very simple thing to build (i've built an AM radio in first year electronics) this is basic electronics with access to the right equipment (an oscilliscope mainly) i could build and tune the low power version in about an hour the high power version in about two days (that one is a little bit more complex)

Post Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:42 am

it's true, Id's Ladas do keep running in the snow, and the heated rear windscreen is an excellent hand-warmer for the driver's m8s when they're pushing it home....

Post Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:49 am

doh! northern i knew that Anyways, after some more detailed study i found that there are three levels of sulfation, characterized by their molecular bonds: level 1. normal discharge,the longer a battery sits without being charged the more it accumulates level 2. the sulphate crystals share two electrons,forming a tighter bond. this follows level 1 level 3. once again,an additional electron is shared forming an even stronger bond

now wheres the desulfator fit in?
at level 1 a normal charge restores the battery
at level 2 an extended overcharge of 170% the battery's voltage will restore the battery
at level 3 no amount of charging will clean the plates of sulphate,however the desulfator claims to,through a series of resonant pulses in the charging circuit

note,this is the lead acid battery type found in your car,not something else %_%

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