I don’t know why there are so many jerks on the internet with nothing but condescending or mean things to say. They are so brainwashed they can’t handle real human beings being human. Thanks for the video and the information. I appreciate your time and contribution to the TH-cam community. And the music is quirky but completely works.
Hay, u were awesome. Being electrical engineer i never tried this a bit. But after accidentally watched your video, i did give life to my 3 year old dead battery. Nice video.
8:18 Slam dunking the whole battery in a bucket is CRAZY. Not givinga rat'sass!. After watching that I was compelled to hit like, subscribe and the bell icon!
well thank you! was hard to remember what i wanted to film after i waited a week for the battery to desulfate haha. i'm used to filming things all at once.
U need distilled water. Distilled water is a non conductor. Tap water is a conductor of electricity. Tap water doesnt hold a good charge and makes a lot of acid when it evaporates. Use distilled water only.
I was given an 85 amp sealed leisure battery. The level was low so I drilled 6 holes & topped them up with distilled water ( I make my own) then sealed the holes with hot glue & small squares of plastic so can be removed for refilling again & set the charger on pulse repair mode. It's a great battery & can deliver current as I tested it with my 12-volt kettle which draws around 14 amps & it boiled. I also have 2, 126 amp truck batteries which I have also had on pulse repair & inverters to use with ham radio, CB & UHF equipment in an emergency. Now the West is locking horns with Russia One never knows when backup power is needed. We could have our fragile power grid knocked out.
The AGM battery you were trying to fix appears to be an ETX20L (name located on bottom of battery) The caps that you are having issue with are ultrasonically welded, which are not made to be removed or replaced (white marks) or it voids any kind of warranty. The 10.41 volts indicates that it has a hydration short in one of the groups. A hydration short is a wearing away of a spot of the separator material, usually looking like a burn mark. This usually happens when plates were not entirely soaked in acid during filling process. Also, the light grey plates are the negative plates and the dark colored plates are the positive. Adding water to an AGM battery does not "FIX" it. Also, it is a conventional acid, just a different specific gravity compared to an auto. I work at a battery manufacturing plant as quality control. DO NOT TRY WHAT THIS GUY IS DOING TO THE SUPER START BATTERY(ETX20L)
nice! i've had good luck with epsom salt and may try alum someday. the 3rd 4-wheeler battery i didnt show much in this video is bad along with the 2nd one that was bad. ima connect one to 115v AC and blow it up. then maybe cut them open, remove the plates and turn them into little lockable boxes.
The black battery that you had to pry the strip of caps off from is a gel cell or possibly an AGM or Absorbed Glass Mat battery. In either case, it WAS a sealed battery. The acid is in a gelled state and WAS under slight pressure until you popped the caps. It is made this way so when the water in the gelled cells gasifies, up to a point, it will be reabsorbed as the battery cools. As soon as you popped the caps, you ruined the battery. Also, in a standard car or boat battery, the electrolyte, (acid to you), IS 40% sulfuric and 60% water. NOT 10% to 90 % as you said. You might also want to warn your audience that even short exposure of battery acid in the eyes can cause blindness and to keep baking soda near by to neutralize any spills. BTW, you ruined the AGM battery as soon as you opened it and you can NOT add water or acid to these either. I think you have some more to read up on battery maintenance and chemistry before you hurt yourself or someone really badly. Also, it's a lead PEROXIDE and a lead DIOXIDE coating on the plates. While the plates are pure lead, It's the coatings that make them positive or negative. Lead sulfate does not form BETWEEN the plates, it forms ON the plates. When you desulfate a battery, you don't redissolve it back into the acid, you actually crack the surface of it to allow the acid to come back into contact with the plates. If you feed 15 volts into a wet cell battery, you will overheat it and develop a LOT of gas bubble between the plates which will keep the acid away from them and NOT allow them to charge properly. I believe your heart is in the right place but you are playing with danger when you play with these batteries when you don't know what you're doing. A little knowledge really can be worse than none at all. God bless you and your viewers.
If you are doing a lot of parallel circuit battery charging, you might consider building a negative busbar and a positive busbar on which to clamp the alligator clips for that workbench. You had multiple alligator clips on other alligator clips. The direction things are heading, I foresee clothespins with bare wire wrapped on the clamping end on those bars. You might be able to gut one of those batteries and build a capacitor.
its called the Wizbang Plus on ebay. only really available on USA and Canada ebay but cost 20$. this desulfator is the cheepest one you can buy. and it shows. thats why it's held together with a cloths pin and a bunch of solder on it. it arrived with a capacitor broken off and they just refunded me and let me keep it free. that may be a mistake or they didn't care about me returning it. btw it does come in a plastic housing, it doesn't come as an open circuit board.
How long can battery life be extended by doing this? Also, if I decide to just buy new batteries for my 2 jumper packs that are weak/dying, do they HAVE to read “20HR” on them? My jumper pack batteries are labeled; 12V 7AH/20HR and the other is labeled 12V 18AH/20HR… I’ve found identical batteries on Amazon, BUT, NONE of them read “20HR” on them… Confusing…
Thank you for the answer. I'm building a solar power system and a desulfator would be a big help. If you know any trucking companies, you could try to get an 8D3 or a 4D3 battery. They're massive, about 100 pounds but have a heck of a reserve. One or two could be a big asset to your shed lighting system.
Solar charge controllers, even a cheap ebay one, combined with solar panel(s), make the best desulfators as they push 1/10 of a volt more than whatever charge is currently on the battery and lead acid likes this. I have saved an older flooded lead acid costco interstate battery that went flat because the car door wasn't shut right, and then the battery was too low voltage to take a charge from the alternator which pushes 14.4 volts. I was going to buy a new battery but just left the 20 watt solar panel and the $12 charge controller on the battery so it would start when I got a chance to go to Costco to buy a new one. It was covid times so I kept putting it off. I did put some distilled water in the battery and I kept the solar on the battery which I noticed was slowly creeping up about 1/10 a volt every day. It took at least a week to get the battery chargeable by the alternator again, but even more time will desultate further. I didn't have to buy a new battery! That was 2 years ago and the battery is still going strong with normal use.
I was looking for this comment after seeing that. Was trying to lift an old 74Ah battery from car and move it to my garage and goddam the battery weight alike almost 40 lbs and I was worried if it’s handle would snap. And I see this guy lifting the battery like it’s nothing!😁🤦🏻♂️
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The avatar did change, albeit not willingly. I was forced into the google, youtube, google+ account merge while commenting. In the process of trying to get my avatar back. I have a couple of DCM (Deep Cycle-Marine) batteries in my battery bank I chemically desulfated & replaced the acid with a solution of 8oz (dry measure) Alum to 1 gal water. Delieve it or not, just that took then from 2v to 10v without any charging (wouldn't hold a load without charging, but doing great now).
Hi Sir the 12volt battery that I'm doing has a dead cell & 3 days ago I had emptied the acid out of the battery & then flushed the battery with fresh clean rain water from my 250 liter tank & boil it up in a jug & I added some of the rest of the cold water to the hot boiling water to cool it down a bit to put in the battery & gave it a bit of a shake up & then poured it out of the battery & when I got all of contents out of the battery I then got some more Fresh clean rain water & put it in the jug & boiled it up & I got a pack of baking soda & once the jug boiled & I some cold rain water put into the bottle & the added hot water from the from the jug & added the baking soda & gave it a good shake up & then poured it into the battery & you should have seen the contents bubbling in the battery & let sit overnight & the yesterday morning I emptied the mixture straight out of the battery & forgot to shake up the battery first & got all out of the battery then I did the process all over again & adding baking soda to the hot fresh rainwater & poured it into the battery & I let it sit in battery for about 2 hours & then gave the battery a good shake up & before pouring all the contents out & did same thing again & a total of 6 times with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & on the 6 th time that I did with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & added to the battery I then let it sit overnight & later this morning I has put the caps on the battery & screwed them down & gave the battery a good shake up for a few minutes & then took the caps off the battery & poured the contents out of the battery & once I got the contents I got a bottle of fresh clean rain water & heat it up & poured that straight into the battery & gave it another shake up & poured straight out & moved the battery back & forth while the battery was up side down & then after I had got it all out of the battery & then got plenty of distilled water & boiled that up & then some cold distilled water just to cool it down a little & then added Epsom Salts to the container & gave & once the Epsom Salts had desolved & I poured that into the battery & then I put the Foxsur 12V/24V 7stage battery charge & it's on repair mode & within a few minutes the Epsom Salts with the destilled water started to bubble & as I was looking at each cell some were bubbling & weren't bubbling & then a short time later they were all started to bubble & I said cool I may have fixed the dead cell that was in this battery & when I unplugged the charger leaving the leads connected to the charger & got a reading off the Foxsur charger 8.8 Volts & then about a few minutes later I unplugged the charger & got a reading of 9.1 Volts & so its coming up &.its been now a few hours now but it's raining at the present time not nice at all & will have to check it again at a later after the rain has stopped & here's hoping that I may have restored this battery & I hope so anyway Kind Regards Peter
Thanks for the video. I have a question for you. It seems that sulfate between cell is the biggest cuprite for lead-acid going bad. I have a motorcycle battery, EverStart brand, just like one of your battery you were testing with. I just bought this new in May this year. I've used it fine for the summer then I put on a low current charger. This other day I have discovered the charger indicator blinking yellow rather then green. Who knows how long it had been blinking.. I check the battery voltage and it reads 5 volt. So I disconnect and reconnect the charger then two days later it shows green indicator but when I measure the voltage, it shows still 5 volt. The charger must have drained the battery for good. But this battery is new. It is not a case of sulfate build up. Is there any way the battery could be revived? These motorcycle battery only comes with 90 day warranty for whatever reason. Thanks in advance for your help.
@@napieraustin I raised the voltage to 12 volt by connecting the dead battery to my car battery for few hours (or was it few minutes? I cannot remember). Some posts indicated that the charger would not charge unless the battery is up to certain volt. I guess 5 volt was too loo low of voltage to start the charger. These compact charger do not have whole lot of explanation to tell you anything. Anyway, the volt is up to 12 volt and I put on a charger to keep charging. It has been on charger for winter. I will find if the battery is fully restored or not when I connect the battery to the bike this spring. If the CCA is not up, even with the battery volt reading of 12 volt, battery is not usable. Try that!
Resting voltage for a good battery is between 12.6 to 13.0 V. If the voltage is any less after sitting 24 hours, then the battery is sulphated. A "desulphator circuit" has to carry at least 5 amps of current to have any effect at all. If the resting voltage is less than 10 V, then the battery should be a core charge for a new battery, no recovery is possible. I've been through it all, tried many reconditioning tricks, powders, alum crystals, and almost none of them worked. The only try that did work (temporarily), was to empty the battery of the old acid, use baking soda saturated in distiled water to get rid of the sulphation on the plates, then add fresh acid to the battery. This worked for six months, but it ate the plates away and shorted two cells. The best thing to do to keep a battery working is to keep it clean, use distilled water only to fill a cell that has gone down. Never fill a cell more than 1/4 to 1/2" above the plates, the extra water, if you filled it to the top, dilutes the acid and makes the battery weaker. Clean the battery top with distilled water and a soft cloth untill it shines, any dirt or dust has a high concentration of rust, causing a high resistence short between the posts putting excessive stress on the battery and alternator. This shortens the life of the battery and alternator. A clean battery, no corrosion on the connections will make your battery last one or two years past it's expected life. I have an Exide "blem" in my truck that was only guaranteed for one year five years ago, and it still cranks the engine like when it was new. Enough proof for me.
If you connect a piece of solder to your meter probes and dip the solder into the holes where you fill it, they make a mini battery and you can test the individual voltage on each cell.
i don't think its because its a battery. i believe its due to the acid holding a charge also. you can use any type of wire for it. but yeah its something i forgot to put into this video. but i try to make a new video every few months regarding batteries so i'll keep working at it :D
Great video. I have a 48 volt golf cart, 5 years old and the batteries last only about 16 vs 25 miles when new. I want to desulfate them using a battery pulse system like yours. Did you build yours, since there is no casing around the electronics. Amazon sells the BLS-48A desulfator, which the manufacturer recommends to mount in the golf cart and desulfate continuously. Any recommendations?
haha i didn't even notice that. i tend not to look at warning labels too much. and yeh i am going to make like a big power strip and some cables. the cables will have a plug on one end and two aligator clips on the other side. that way i can connect or disconnect each battery if i wanted. but i'm only gonna worry about that when i get a good source of power like my solar panels and such.
Rinoa, great videos. Thanks. Have you seen any of those videos where people are "converting" old lead-acid batteries to "lead-alum" by dumping out the acid, rinsing and adding a mixture of alum and water? What do you think? I just tried it on a car battery that had been seriously over charged when the voltage regulator in my alternator went bad. It boiled the battery dry but even after refilling it with water and charging it, it would not even engage the starter. Now it is a bit better but still will not quite start the car. It would be awesome if a person like you with knowledge and testing equipment, could do some experimenting to see if this "conversion" idea is any good.
yeah i've been thinking about doing that. unfortunatly lead-alum batteries seem to not be good for starting engines. they are lower voltage and dont give as many amps. better for like solar-powered stuff.
You can use lemon juice and a mixture of Epsom salt with lemon juice you could use that it might take a little while to put out a charge even on a sulfated battery this trick works I've used it sometimes in an emergencies that trick works just be careful when doing it.
The one that had the name on the tape requires you to cut the plastic around the top of the round plastic caps. It will hace tiny thin strips around the hole for venting but the caps will be connect between the vent slits. They are a pain in the arse to get out and they dont fit back in with gluing or plastic welding
Just FYI 10v is a bad sign, it usually means a bad cell if the 1 volt is young enough I'd rather try it, most chargers will not charge batteries below 11volts, anything lower looks like a 6v to the charger, you can trick the charger by linking in another good battery by putting the pos on one, and the neg on the other then use alligator clips to link both positives together then another to the negs. Also don't add water to SLA batteries, shake it if it rattles you're done. I work at batteries plus
you dont seem to know much about batteries then. i have a deep cycle that was at 4v and once revived now has about a 1/4 of it's capacity. some of the batteries i weld with where bellow 8v once, so they are still very useful. and as for adding water to SLAs, an sla will vent off its water over time and will try out. so yes adding water to an sla will help. you did watch the video right?
Good video brother.. should try empty batteries.. mix baking soda 1 cup per 1 gallon of distilled water fill up batteries wait for reaction to stop do this 2 or 3 times last time half way shake to get rid up crap.. now flush with hose water obviously shake the hell out of it then last flush with distilled water also shake .. now add new acid O'Reilly 25 bucks for 5 gallons pre mixed sulfuric acid for batteries now charge on Trickle 24 hours.. you could also do the Epson salt idea but Alum Granulated Powder food grade work much much better also 1 cup per 1 gallon you can heat that up over oven on low until all dissolved qait until its cooled to add to batteries.. a hydrometer helps to check the gravity.. you seem very skilled with electric
Great video! Great description and presentation! This is a great solution for poor people like me! I don't throw anything away! Gonna try some of these things on some dead batteries I have! Thanks!😎
I'm a grown man worked on cars all my life ....waisted money on new batteries cuz I never took time to understand that they were just thirsty.....learned sum thing from a child.....keep your head high kid
Sulfuric acid and water in a batter is "electrolyte". From what I recall a mixture of 40-60, is electrolyte. 40 percent acid 60 percent H2O. Also, use distilled water.
i use the 200amp start on my battery charger to boil them for a bit,i have saved alot of batteries. i did one the other day that started at .8volts. its working well in the riding mower. takes a few hours. A DC arc welder also work for desulphating.
the last reply was short because i had to go to bed lol but using my logic you should take some small samples off the acid and use some litmus paper or solution to see if the solution of acid and water has weakened or even neutralized due to age and my miracle battery desulphator was a bedini motor it would usually only take a week and its like a brand new battery again but not all batterys are capable of being revived but otherwise good luck for the future repairs :)
Turning up the voltage to hear the acid "sizzle" is a very good way of overheating the plates and warping them, creating a "short" and destroying the battery's performance! I thought you knew what you were doing!!!
Great video, just need to find some batteries and possibly a charger with a desulfation function im sure new/electronic chargers have. When it comes to batteries/electronics you can never have enough information
thanks for enjoying it :D i am starting to feel a bit guilty that i'm focusing on batteries a bit much and not being as diverse as i'd wish. but oh well i'm obsessed with batteries for now so i'll just make a bunch of battery videos haha.
haha well thanks. i put that in for the people who stumble across my channel since my battery videos get me like 90% of my subs and views. i plan on remaking this video every year or so and each version will get better and better and i'll also refine my method. it seems as though my desulfated batteries sometimes don't get past 12.4ish volts. you think i should mess with adding epsom salt? i think the issue is the sulfuric acid has turned into useless chemicals and so the acid is less potent.
I have a 12v energizer battery for my lawn tractor. It somewhat held a charge before so I just filled it with water. It took 16 ounces so I'm hoping it will charge well
technically using distilled water is ideal.. but I know enough about impurities in the manufacturing processes that lead me to believe the impact on cheap / already dead batteries is quite minimal. I just run water through a pur filter and dump it in. Usually a battery will come back somewhat but capacity will not return unless you run desalination. For kick started motorcycles this is not a huge issue, but for electric start ones it can be.
well i have only messed with the wizbang plus so far and it does seem pretty weak. but hey it was cheep and it is getting the job done. i havent tested any other ones but hey i am making money from youtube so i should buy more desulfators and make reviews :D oh and i would stay away from desulfators that require connection to an AC outlet. most of them say they can fully desulfate a battery in a few hours and tend to fry a battery by overcharging them, i'd stick to a simple one.
Yes, it does matter what kind of water you use in your lead acid battery. The only water you should ever use is DISTILLED WATER. Not rain water, or tap water. Rain or tap water has suspended salts and metals in it which will ruin the lead plates and spacers. Distilled water has none of those battery killers, and is required by the manufacturers. Always clean the top of the battery off by brushing off dirt and cleaning the top squeaky clean BEFORE you even open the caps off the cells to avoid contamination of the battery cells. Also, a clean battery top prevents any rust dust from forming on the top to provide a high resistant short between the plus and minus poles, draining the battery slowly and causing sulphation on the lead plates inside the battery.
depends on where you get your tap water from. like around here a battery will last years and years and years just with tap water, but if you go somewhere theres a lot more junk in the water that might not be the case.
Depending on the source of the distilled water, and it's storage, it may also be rather impure. The reverse can occasionally be true of rain water, depending on the atmosphere in which it formed and through which it fell. Rain water if filtered for dust particulate (undissolved) can be quite pure. However almost any tap water is full of mineral salts and much more as mentioned because adding them is part of the treatment process done before it is delivered to you through what are often decades old water mains.
@@m3n4lyf So? Using distilled water means all impurities are filtered from the water by boiling and condensing the water, leaving the impurities left in the boil pot. Some distilled water is also filtered by reverse osmosis after distilling. Just watch the label. Rain water has impurities naturally, because a rain drop is formed around a grain of dust. The grain of dust can be anything, dirt, sand, metallic salts, molecules of ferrous oxide (rust), molecules of radioactive material - all from many different sources, and impure by its makeup. Your Grandpa may have used rain water and got away with it because battery tech was in its infancy back in the day. But now with the many ways a battery can be built, you cannot use anything but distilled water, and it is always recommended by the batteries' manufacturers. Cleaning the battery top with a damp soft cloth or a microfiber towel keeps the dirt/rust off the top that would provide a high impedance path (or "short") that will draw your battery down and shorten its usable life. Using an equalizing charge that boils each cell will partially remove the sulfation from each cell, just replace the boiled off electrolyte to 1/4" above the plates. Electronic desulfators only work on functioning batteries to keep the sulfation at a manageable level, it will not "restore" a dead battery to the minimum 600 CCA needed to start a car. Also, your alternator will NOT charge a dead battery (0V), only a slow charge of 2 amps over time might have a chance. Unless you have a voltage reading of at least 10 V, repurpose the battery for some other use, because if it won't crank your engine - it is DEAD. Repurposed batteries can run household electronics designed for the remaining battery voltage in the car battery - but do so at your own risk. Charge repurposed batteries at the battery voltage, not 12VDC. I've tried all the "miracle cures" that the vultures want you to believe their "cure" will work. They do not, and never will.
@@lomgshorts3 The only thing I am is saying that you never really know how pure that jug of water really is. I make no suggestions on what people do, or should do, and make no statements on the validity of the video(which is laden in bullshit), or the statements of anyone including myself. On an unrelated note: Not everyone on this planet has access to highly pure water at all times, you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. Much love.
@@m3n4lyf OK Zed, sorry to have misunderstood your intent. Lots of people do not read the label on the "Spring Water" they consume only to find out that is filtered municipal water. I've seen so much crap on "rejuvenating" car and deep cycle batteries of all types, that I just want to lash out at the people who believe this stuff that people make on video. They waste more money on trying to save an old battery than it would cost to buy a new battery with a warranty, especially when you figure your time and the KWh your chargers use. I go to Interstate Batteries and buy their "blems" at 1/3 the cost with a 6 month warranty and get 5 to 6 years out of them because I maintain them - keep them squeaky clean, clean the terminals regularly, and use vaseline to keep any corrosion off the terminals and cables. Works great. Right now I'm painting my '90 Ford Ranger undercarriage with Rustoleum hi temp black to keep the frame and floor pans from rusting out. The box is made of fiberglass (came from the factory that way), so it won't rust, but even fiberglass needs care, too. When I got it paid off, I swore to keep it forever. I've been offered 5K for it, but won't sell it cause I've gathered lots of parts for it over the years. Its my daily driver, but I also have a '79 GMC C-1500 with a 350 cu in crate engine and a Turbo 400 tranny I'm working on too. Someday it will be a camper with a DIY camper on the box. Best Regards!
This is an awesome. and informative. I am working on fixing a Car battery that my girlfriend's grandmother had. she left it outside forever I think. I will be over charging it, maybe it will work because, I tested it today, and it is showing that it is fixing the battery. if it doesn't work, I will try to put together a desulfator circuit, or buy one. :D
Nice video. However; to make it more useful or for a follow-on, you might address the causes of dead batteries. For instance; I have a Delco car battery that is 48 series, that was simply neglected. It is not old, but I let it get deep discharged more than once. Now, it won't take a charge, even though the interior lights come on (thus, it puts out at least 12 volts, right?). Does improper deep discharging cause sulfating... as well asage of the batery? Do I build a de-sulfater? Buy it? Where? Thanks again for an informative video.
Thank you, I was going to turn in a perfectly good SLA battery that wouldn't charge above 11.7v. All it needed was a little fluid and some extra time on the charger.
Hey, The best info that I have saw was on Volt daddy (i found it on google) Without a doubt the most useful info on batteries and this kind of thing that i have found.
Nice video until I got to 15:45 and the desulfator. You connect the desulfator to two batteries, the charged one and the sulfated battery. The sulfate crystals are an insulator, (correct?) Doesn't that mean the desulfator will desulfinate the charged battery which doesn't need to be desulfinated? (Everything is in parallel.) Why don't you measure the specific gravity of the cells? You did a nice job. Thanks
Distilled water is a nonconductor try it. Try ohming distilled water in a clean glass. Then tap water. Tap water particles will stick to your plates in the battery and u will loose cranking amps. I think you misunderstood the chemistry book.
i just tried the method of washing out the black gunk in the bottom of mine (small automotive) 8 times with almost hot tap water and bakingsoda for the first 2 times, than a ninth time with di-water. Now it holds the charge again after filling back the filtered acid. The black gunk at the bottom was probably shorting out 1 or 2 cells (when the battery never stays over 10.3V or 8.1V respectively, this could be the cause).
Curious if you built that more powerful desulfator you mentioned and how it worked if so? (Wanted to PM you but don't know how to do that here on youtube.)
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so its just distilled water you used? no epsom salt?
loved it have a Q , that desulfater you used ,are they buyable somewhere? or are they home made+ if so ,are there kits to buy, cus they are awsome!! thanx for the lesson.
i got it for 20$ on ebay, but i've found that its very week. so if your wanting to maintain a battery it might work ok but might want something with a higher power output to desulfate a bad battery.
U can start an electrical fire with tap water. After the engine starts (with a tap water battery) it will charge the battery and voltage will go through the tap water and plates and burn wires in the engine. Electricity takes the shortest path.
no, the particles dissolved into the tap water may be more conductive if you have nasty water. but it is usually no more conductive than distilled water. please stop spreading misinformation and read some chemistry books. it would help you in life ^^
I bought a new 6 volt battery from a diy shop and it had 6 volts, but no amps. Do you think that the manufacturer forgot to fill in the electrolyte, or do you think it is something else?
hey, great video. I have a 12v car battery that starts to bubble when charging at approx 12v, 10amps. I've noticed however that one cell does not bubble. after charging it holds 12v until a heavy load is put and causing the voltage to drop to around 10. is it dead?
Hi is it recommended to leave caps off when trying to charge after filling with distilled water?....and then once charged put caps back on ?...also when you use 1 charger to charge multiple 12v batteries in parallel at one time how does charger know when to stop or continue charging?
Restoring 12 volt 12 amp hour batteries that used to have 30amps pulled from it. Can the batteries be used to pull the same amps while restoring the capacity?
Hi liked the video. New to all this and wondered how to make the desulfater you used? Hopefully spelling is right. Anyway maybe a location to buy one. Thanks
I got that one for 20$ from eBay and its really weak. but I haven't built any good ones myself yet. I did try something that was promessing though. I built a circuit that would charge a cap to 30v then dump it into the battery as a high amp burst.
I don’t know why there are so many jerks on the internet with nothing but condescending or mean things to say. They are so brainwashed they can’t handle real human beings being human. Thanks for the video and the information. I appreciate your time and contribution to the TH-cam community. And the music is quirky but completely works.
Hay, u were awesome. Being electrical engineer i never tried this a bit. But after accidentally watched your video, i did give life to my 3 year old dead battery. Nice video.
i have seen a lot of battery repair videos in youtube and this one is one of the best if not the best.
8:18 Slam dunking the whole battery in a bucket is CRAZY. Not givinga rat'sass!. After watching that I was compelled to hit like, subscribe and the bell icon!
Way to much information, but I do appreciate your knowledge. Most people don't even want to grasp how it works, they just want it to work.
"You're a good little battery.. yes you are!!" Love it! I can almost see the little battery smiling! Nice video!
well thank you! was hard to remember what i wanted to film after i waited a week for the battery to desulfate haha. i'm used to filming things all at once.
When taking battery off battery charger will voltage drop
U need distilled water. Distilled water is a non conductor. Tap water is a conductor of electricity. Tap water doesnt hold a good charge and makes a lot of acid when it evaporates.
Use distilled water only.
i think you are a bit mistaken with that.
but my tests show that regular water will work just fine.
No tap water has salt in it and will rapidly degrade the battery. You should idealy use DI water but distilled water works the same
lishde di water?
De-ionized
Rinoa Super-Genius can u put the caps back on and charge the battery after the water restoration?
on your hard to open maintenance free batterers run a small self taping screw in to the cap and use vice-grips to twist and pull the cap up.
thats a good idea too
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I was given an 85 amp sealed leisure battery. The level was low so I drilled 6 holes & topped them up with distilled water ( I make my own) then sealed the holes with hot glue & small squares of plastic so can be removed for refilling again & set the charger on pulse repair mode. It's a great battery & can deliver current as I tested it with my 12-volt kettle which draws around 14 amps & it boiled. I also have 2, 126 amp truck batteries which I have also had on pulse repair & inverters to use with ham radio, CB & UHF equipment in an emergency. Now the West is locking horns with Russia One never knows when backup power is needed. We could have our fragile power grid knocked out.
many of us appreciate this kind of video . thanks for your time and effort
The AGM battery you were trying to fix appears to be an ETX20L (name located on bottom of battery) The caps that you are having issue with are ultrasonically welded, which are not made to be removed or replaced (white marks) or it voids any kind of warranty. The 10.41 volts indicates that it has a hydration short in one of the groups. A hydration short is a wearing away of a spot of the separator material, usually looking like a burn mark. This usually happens when plates were not entirely soaked in acid during filling process. Also, the light grey plates are the negative plates and the dark colored plates are the positive. Adding water to an AGM battery does not "FIX" it. Also, it is a conventional acid, just a different specific gravity compared to an auto. I work at a battery manufacturing plant as quality control. DO NOT TRY WHAT THIS GUY IS DOING TO THE SUPER START BATTERY(ETX20L)
nice! i've had good luck with epsom salt and may try alum someday.
the 3rd 4-wheeler battery i didnt show much in this video is bad along with the 2nd one that was bad. ima connect one to 115v AC and blow it up. then maybe cut them open, remove the plates and turn them into little lockable boxes.
The black battery that you had to pry the strip of caps off from is a gel cell or possibly an AGM or Absorbed Glass Mat battery. In either case, it WAS a sealed battery. The acid is in a gelled state and WAS under slight pressure until you popped the caps. It is made this way so when the water in the gelled cells gasifies, up to a point, it will be reabsorbed as the battery cools. As soon as you popped the caps, you ruined the battery. Also, in a standard car or boat battery, the electrolyte, (acid to you), IS 40% sulfuric and 60% water. NOT 10% to 90 % as you said. You might also want to warn your audience that even short exposure of battery acid in the eyes can cause blindness and to keep baking soda near by to neutralize any spills. BTW, you ruined the AGM battery as soon as you opened it and you can NOT add water or acid to these either. I think you have some more to read up on battery maintenance and chemistry before you hurt yourself or someone really badly. Also, it's a lead PEROXIDE and a lead DIOXIDE coating on the plates. While the plates are pure lead, It's the coatings that make them positive or negative. Lead sulfate does not form BETWEEN the plates, it forms ON the plates. When you desulfate a battery, you don't redissolve it back into the acid, you actually crack the surface of it to allow the acid to come back into contact with the plates. If you feed 15 volts into a wet cell battery, you will overheat it and develop a LOT of gas bubble between the plates which will keep the acid away from them and NOT allow them to charge properly. I believe your heart is in the right place but you are playing with danger when you play with these batteries when you don't know what you're doing. A little knowledge really can be worse than none at all. God bless you and your viewers.
So what voltage should you use to desulfate a wet cell
If you are doing a lot of parallel circuit battery charging, you might consider building a negative busbar and a positive busbar on which to clamp the alligator clips for that workbench. You had multiple alligator clips on other alligator clips.
The direction things are heading, I foresee clothespins with bare wire wrapped on the clamping end on those bars.
You might be able to gut one of those batteries and build a capacitor.
its called the Wizbang Plus on ebay. only really available on USA and Canada ebay but cost 20$.
this desulfator is the cheepest one you can buy. and it shows. thats why it's held together with a cloths pin and a bunch of solder on it.
it arrived with a capacitor broken off and they just refunded me and let me keep it free. that may be a mistake or they didn't care about me returning it.
btw it does come in a plastic housing, it doesn't come as an open circuit board.
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Thank you for answering the question I had"it could take up to a day 1/2 to fully 100% charge a battery from a complete dead state.
How long can battery life be extended by doing this?
Also, if I decide to just buy new batteries for my 2 jumper packs that are weak/dying, do they HAVE to read “20HR” on them? My jumper pack batteries are labeled; 12V 7AH/20HR and the other is labeled 12V 18AH/20HR… I’ve found identical batteries on Amazon, BUT, NONE of them read “20HR” on them… Confusing…
Thank you for the answer. I'm building a solar power system and a desulfator would be a big help. If you know any trucking companies, you could try to get an 8D3 or a 4D3 battery. They're massive, about 100 pounds but have a heck of a reserve. One or two could be a big asset to your shed lighting system.
Solar charge controllers, even a cheap ebay one, combined with solar panel(s), make the best desulfators as they push 1/10 of a volt more than whatever charge is currently on the battery and lead acid likes this. I have saved an older flooded lead acid costco interstate battery that went flat because the car door wasn't shut right, and then the battery was too low voltage to take a charge from the alternator which pushes 14.4 volts. I was going to buy a new battery but just left the 20 watt solar panel and the $12 charge controller on the battery so it would start when I got a chance to go to Costco to buy a new one. It was covid times so I kept putting it off. I did put some distilled water in the battery and I kept the solar on the battery which I noticed was slowly creeping up about 1/10 a volt every day. It took at least a week to get the battery chargeable by the alternator again, but even more time will desultate further. I didn't have to buy a new battery! That was 2 years ago and the battery is still going strong with normal use.
WOW you lifted that battery very easy at the start of the video :)
hahaha thats because it's not a battery anymore.
Hahaha ok
Must be something in the breakfast.
I was looking for this comment after seeing that. Was trying to lift an old 74Ah battery from car and move it to my garage and goddam the battery weight alike almost 40 lbs and I was worried if it’s handle would snap. And I see this guy lifting the battery like it’s nothing!😁🤦🏻♂️
You are lucky that you can just mess around with stuff freely. My parents crap themselves whenever I do anything.
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I have a couple of DCM (Deep Cycle-Marine) batteries in my battery bank I chemically desulfated & replaced the acid with a solution of 8oz (dry measure) Alum to 1 gal water. Delieve it or not, just that took then from 2v to 10v without any charging (wouldn't hold a load without charging, but doing great now).
Hi Sir the 12volt battery that I'm doing has a dead cell & 3 days ago I had emptied the acid out of the battery & then flushed the battery with fresh clean rain water from my 250 liter tank & boil it up in a jug & I added some of the rest of the cold water to the hot boiling water to cool it down a bit to put in the battery & gave it a bit of a shake up & then poured it out of the battery & when I got all of contents out of the battery I then got some more Fresh clean rain water & put it in the jug & boiled it up & I got a pack of baking soda & once the jug boiled & I some cold rain water put into the bottle & the added hot water from the from the jug & added the baking soda & gave it a good shake up & then poured it into the battery & you should have seen the contents bubbling in the battery & let sit overnight & the yesterday morning I emptied the mixture straight out of the battery & forgot to shake up the battery first & got all out of the battery then I did the process all over again & adding baking soda to the hot fresh rainwater & poured it into the battery & I let it sit in battery for about 2 hours & then gave the battery a good shake up & before pouring all the contents out & did same thing again & a total of 6 times with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & on the 6 th time that I did with baking soda & hot fresh rainwater & added to the battery I then let it sit overnight & later this morning I has put the caps on the battery & screwed them down & gave the battery a good shake up for a few minutes & then took the caps off the battery & poured the contents out of the battery & once I got the contents I got a bottle of fresh clean rain water & heat it up & poured that straight into the battery & gave it another shake up & poured straight out & moved the battery back & forth while the battery was up side down & then after I had got it all out of the battery & then got plenty of distilled water & boiled that up & then some cold distilled water just to cool it down a little & then added Epsom Salts to the container & gave & once the Epsom Salts had desolved & I poured that into the battery & then I put the Foxsur 12V/24V 7stage battery charge & it's on repair mode & within a few minutes the Epsom Salts with the destilled water started to bubble & as I was looking at each cell some were bubbling & weren't bubbling & then a short time later they were all started to bubble & I said cool I may have fixed the dead cell that was in this battery & when I unplugged the charger leaving the leads connected to the charger & got a reading off the Foxsur charger 8.8 Volts & then about a few minutes later I unplugged the charger & got a reading of 9.1 Volts & so its coming up &.its been now a few hours now but it's raining at the present time not nice at all & will have to check it again at a later after the rain has stopped & here's hoping that I may have restored this battery & I hope so anyway Kind Regards Peter
Thanks for the video. I have a question for you. It seems that sulfate between cell is the biggest cuprite for lead-acid going bad. I have a motorcycle battery, EverStart brand, just like one of your battery you were testing with. I just bought this new in May this year. I've used it fine for the summer then I put on a low current charger. This other day I have discovered the charger indicator blinking yellow rather then green. Who knows how long it had been blinking.. I check the battery voltage and it reads 5 volt. So I disconnect and reconnect the charger then two days later it shows green indicator but when I measure the voltage, it shows still 5 volt. The charger must have drained the battery for good. But this battery is new. It is not a case of sulfate build up. Is there any way the battery could be revived? These motorcycle battery only comes with 90 day warranty for whatever reason. Thanks in advance for your help.
I have same junk battery. Only a year old.
@@napieraustin I raised the voltage to 12 volt by connecting the dead battery to my car battery for few hours (or was it few minutes? I cannot remember). Some posts indicated that the charger would not charge unless the battery is up to certain volt. I guess 5 volt was too loo low of voltage to start the charger. These compact charger do not have whole lot of explanation to tell you anything. Anyway, the volt is up to 12 volt and I put on a charger to keep charging. It has been on charger for winter. I will find if the battery is fully restored or not when I connect the battery to the bike this spring. If the CCA is not up, even with the battery volt reading of 12 volt, battery is not usable. Try that!
a science in itself. watched the whole lot without getting bored, this here shit is go save me some money! Very clever young man!
Resting voltage for a good battery is between 12.6 to 13.0 V. If the voltage is any less after sitting 24 hours, then the battery is sulphated. A "desulphator circuit" has to carry at least 5 amps of current to have any effect at all. If the resting voltage is less than 10 V, then the battery should be a core charge for a new battery, no recovery is possible. I've been through it all, tried many reconditioning tricks, powders, alum crystals, and almost none of them worked. The only try that did work (temporarily), was to empty the battery of the old acid, use baking soda saturated in distiled water to get rid of the sulphation on the plates, then add fresh acid to the battery. This worked for six months, but it ate the plates away and shorted two cells. The best thing to do to keep a battery working is to keep it clean, use distilled water only to fill a cell that has gone down. Never fill a cell more than 1/4 to 1/2" above the plates, the extra water, if you filled it to the top, dilutes the acid and makes the battery weaker. Clean the battery top with distilled water and a soft cloth untill it shines, any dirt or dust has a high concentration of rust, causing a high resistence short between the posts putting excessive stress on the battery and alternator. This shortens the life of the battery and alternator. A clean battery, no corrosion on the connections will make your battery last one or two years past it's expected life. I have an Exide "blem" in my truck that was only guaranteed for one year five years ago, and it still cranks the engine like when it was new. Enough proof for me.
Thank you! It's nice to find someone with more real tech know how than most of the videos by mouth breathers.
I'm a mouth believer.
If you connect a piece of solder to your meter probes and dip the solder into the holes where you fill it, they make a mini battery and you can test the individual voltage on each cell.
i don't think its because its a battery. i believe its due to the acid holding a charge also. you can use any type of wire for it. but yeah its something i forgot to put into this video. but i try to make a new video every few months regarding batteries so i'll keep working at it :D
Hope you received those boat batteries.
Have a good one Rinoa.
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Great video. I have a 48 volt golf cart, 5 years old and the batteries last only about 16 vs 25 miles when new. I want to desulfate them using a battery pulse system like yours. Did you build yours, since there is no casing around the electronics. Amazon sells the BLS-48A desulfator, which the manufacturer recommends to mount in the golf cart and desulfate continuously. Any recommendations?
IVe worked 2 1/2 years at a battery shop. battery fluid is 1/3 sulfuric acid and 2/3s distilled water. not 10% acid and 90% water totally wrong!
Any insight into the industrial re-manufacturing process? Is that generally just a separation of individual materials, and starting from scratch?
Where did you get that desulfator and your power supply? How much do they cost?
Keep doing it brother it’s helping me understand the process.
Shurely I wouldn’t be the first person to say you sound exactly like Steve Buscemi. Great video btw.
shurely?
You have a video on making that desulphater?Really great info btw
haha i didn't even notice that. i tend not to look at warning labels too much.
and yeh i am going to make like a big power strip and some cables. the cables will have a plug on one end and two aligator clips on the other side. that way i can connect or disconnect each battery if i wanted. but i'm only gonna worry about that when i get a good source of power like my solar panels and such.
Use Distilled water not a tap water.
usually agm / gel batteries die from loss of water rather than cell shortout ... so they are more likely to revive after watering them :-)
yeah
Rinoa, great videos. Thanks. Have you seen any of those videos where people are "converting" old lead-acid batteries to "lead-alum" by dumping out the acid, rinsing and adding a mixture of alum and water?
What do you think? I just tried it on a car battery that had been seriously over charged when the voltage regulator in my alternator went bad. It boiled the battery dry but even after refilling it with water and charging it, it would not even engage the starter. Now it is a bit better but still will not quite start the car. It would be awesome if a person like you with knowledge and testing equipment, could do some experimenting to see if this "conversion" idea is any good.
yeah i've been thinking about doing that. unfortunatly lead-alum batteries seem to not be good for starting engines. they are lower voltage and dont give as many amps. better for like solar-powered stuff.
You can use lemon juice and a mixture of Epsom salt with lemon juice you could use that it might take a little while to put out a charge even on a sulfated battery this trick works I've used it sometimes in an emergencies that trick works just be careful when doing it.
How much capacity recovered with your methods? Please answer! Thanks.
The one that had the name on the tape requires you to cut the plastic around the top of the round plastic caps. It will hace tiny thin strips around the hole for venting but the caps will be connect between the vent slits. They are a pain in the arse to get out and they dont fit back in with gluing or plastic welding
Just FYI 10v is a bad sign, it usually means a bad cell if the 1 volt is young enough I'd rather try it, most chargers will not charge batteries below 11volts, anything lower looks like a 6v to the charger, you can trick the charger by linking in another good battery by putting the pos on one, and the neg on the other then use alligator clips to link both positives together then another to the negs. Also don't add water to SLA batteries, shake it if it rattles you're done. I work at batteries plus
you dont seem to know much about batteries then. i have a deep cycle that was at 4v and once revived now has about a 1/4 of it's capacity. some of the batteries i weld with where bellow 8v once, so they are still very useful.
and as for adding water to SLAs, an sla will vent off its water over time and will try out. so yes adding water to an sla will help. you did watch the video right?
Good video brother.. should try empty batteries.. mix baking soda 1 cup per 1 gallon of distilled water fill up batteries wait for reaction to stop do this 2 or 3 times last time half way shake to get rid up crap.. now flush with hose water obviously shake the hell out of it then last flush with distilled water also shake .. now add new acid O'Reilly 25 bucks for 5 gallons pre mixed sulfuric acid for batteries now charge on Trickle 24 hours.. you could also do the Epson salt idea but Alum Granulated Powder food grade work much much better also 1 cup per 1 gallon you can heat that up over oven on low until all dissolved qait until its cooled to add to batteries.. a hydrometer helps to check the gravity.. you seem very skilled with electric
Great video! Great description and presentation! This is a great solution for poor people like me! I don't throw anything away! Gonna try some of these things on some dead batteries I have! Thanks!😎
I'm a grown man worked on cars all my life ....waisted money on new batteries cuz I never took time to understand that they were just thirsty.....learned sum thing from a child.....keep your head high kid
If you start making those diesel features and they work I'll buy one from you man you get rich. Awesome video
Sulfuric acid and water in a batter is "electrolyte". From what I recall a mixture of 40-60, is electrolyte. 40 percent acid 60 percent H2O. Also, use distilled water.
Let do 30% acid and 70% distilled water
i use the 200amp start on my battery charger to boil them for a bit,i have saved alot of batteries. i did one the other day that started at .8volts. its working well in the riding mower. takes a few hours. A DC arc welder also work for desulphating.
the last reply was short because i had to go to bed lol but using my logic you should take some small samples off the acid and use some litmus paper or solution to see if the solution of acid and water has weakened or even neutralized due to age and my miracle battery desulphator was a bedini motor it would usually only take a week and its like a brand new battery again but not all batterys are capable of being revived but otherwise good luck for the future repairs :)
USE distilled water only
or rain water. No calcium.
blogobre No calcium perhaps, but a ton of other shit and dust it pulls out of the atmosphere on the way down! Not good!
Distilled or deionized water!!!!
Turning up the voltage to hear the acid "sizzle" is a very good way of overheating the plates and warping them, creating a "short" and destroying the battery's performance!
I thought you knew what you were doing!!!
They what a great how to video. Learned a lot.
Are you charging all those batteries at the same time? Wired in parallel?
Great video, just need to find some batteries and possibly a charger with a desulfation function im sure new/electronic chargers have. When it comes to batteries/electronics you can never have enough information
thanks for enjoying it :D
i am starting to feel a bit guilty that i'm focusing on batteries a bit much and not being as diverse as i'd wish. but oh well i'm obsessed with batteries for now so i'll just make a bunch of battery videos haha.
haha well thanks. i put that in for the people who stumble across my channel since my battery videos get me like 90% of my subs and views.
i plan on remaking this video every year or so and each version will get better and better and i'll also refine my method.
it seems as though my desulfated batteries sometimes don't get past 12.4ish volts. you think i should mess with adding epsom salt? i think the issue is the sulfuric acid has turned into useless chemicals and so the acid is less potent.
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I have a 12v energizer battery for my lawn tractor. It somewhat held a charge before so I just filled it with water. It took 16 ounces so I'm hoping it will charge well
Thanks a lot for taking the time to make this video. Has anyone ever said that you sound a bit like the actor Steve Buscemi?
very good video,spot on the coductivity .want to start some day with a desulfating device myself here....
technically using distilled water is ideal.. but I know enough about impurities in the manufacturing processes that lead me to believe the impact on cheap / already dead batteries is quite minimal. I just run water through a pur filter and dump it in. Usually a battery will come back somewhat but capacity will not return unless you run desalination. For kick started motorcycles this is not a huge issue, but for electric start ones it can be.
I added dist water to those gas mat batteries and had very good luck.
High amps not good for conditioning or restoring batteries. Low amperage is better.
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Are you joking?
I believe that applies to new batteries,
well i have only messed with the wizbang plus so far and it does seem pretty weak. but hey it was cheep and it is getting the job done.
i havent tested any other ones but hey i am making money from youtube so i should buy more desulfators and make reviews :D
oh and i would stay away from desulfators that require connection to an AC outlet. most of them say they can fully desulfate a battery in a few hours and tend to fry a battery by overcharging them, i'd stick to a simple one.
Yes, it does matter what kind of water you use in your lead acid battery. The only water you should ever use is DISTILLED WATER. Not rain water, or tap water. Rain or tap water has suspended salts and metals in it which will ruin the lead plates and spacers. Distilled water has none of those battery killers, and is required by the manufacturers. Always clean the top of the battery off by brushing off dirt and cleaning the top squeaky clean BEFORE you even open the caps off the cells to avoid contamination of the battery cells. Also, a clean battery top prevents any rust dust from forming on the top to provide a high resistant short between the plus and minus poles, draining the battery slowly and causing sulphation on the lead plates inside the battery.
depends on where you get your tap water from. like around here a battery will last years and years and years just with tap water, but if you go somewhere theres a lot more junk in the water that might not be the case.
Depending on the source of the distilled water, and it's storage, it may also be rather impure. The reverse can occasionally be true of rain water, depending on the atmosphere in which it formed and through which it fell. Rain water if filtered for dust particulate (undissolved) can be quite pure. However almost any tap water is full of mineral salts and much more as mentioned because adding them is part of the treatment process done before it is delivered to you through what are often decades old water mains.
@@m3n4lyf So? Using distilled water means all impurities are filtered from the water by boiling and condensing the water, leaving the impurities left in the boil pot. Some distilled water is also filtered by reverse osmosis after distilling. Just watch the label.
Rain water has impurities naturally, because a rain drop is formed around a grain of dust. The grain of dust can be anything, dirt, sand, metallic salts, molecules of ferrous oxide (rust), molecules of radioactive material - all from many different sources, and impure by its makeup. Your Grandpa may have used rain water and got away with it because battery tech was in its infancy back in the day. But now with the many ways a battery can be built, you cannot use anything but distilled water, and it is always recommended by the batteries' manufacturers. Cleaning the battery top with a damp soft cloth or a microfiber towel keeps the dirt/rust off the top that would provide a high impedance path (or "short") that will draw your battery down and shorten its usable life. Using an equalizing charge that boils each cell will partially remove the sulfation from each cell, just replace the boiled off electrolyte to 1/4" above the plates. Electronic desulfators only work on functioning batteries to keep the sulfation at a manageable level, it will not "restore" a dead battery to the minimum 600 CCA needed to start a car. Also, your alternator will NOT charge a dead battery (0V), only a slow charge of 2 amps over time might have a chance. Unless you have a voltage reading of at least 10 V, repurpose the battery for some other use, because if it won't crank your engine - it is DEAD.
Repurposed batteries can run household electronics designed for the remaining battery voltage in the car battery - but do so at your own risk. Charge repurposed batteries at the battery voltage, not 12VDC. I've tried all the "miracle cures" that the vultures want you to believe their "cure" will work. They do not, and never will.
@@lomgshorts3 The only thing I am is saying that you never really know how pure that jug of water really is. I make no suggestions on what people do, or should do, and make no statements on the validity of the video(which is laden in bullshit), or the statements of anyone including myself. On an unrelated note: Not everyone on this planet has access to highly pure water at all times, you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. Much love.
@@m3n4lyf OK Zed, sorry to have misunderstood your intent. Lots of people do not read the label on the "Spring Water" they consume only to find out that is filtered municipal water. I've seen so much crap on "rejuvenating" car and deep cycle batteries of all types, that I just want to lash out at the people who believe this stuff that people make on video. They waste more money on trying to save an old battery than it would cost to buy a new battery with a warranty, especially when you figure your time and the KWh your chargers use. I go to Interstate Batteries and buy their "blems" at 1/3 the cost with a 6 month warranty and get 5 to 6 years out of them because I maintain them - keep them squeaky clean, clean the terminals regularly, and use vaseline to keep any corrosion off the terminals and cables. Works great. Right now I'm painting my '90 Ford Ranger undercarriage with Rustoleum hi temp black to keep the frame and floor pans from rusting out. The box is made of fiberglass (came from the factory that way), so it won't rust, but even fiberglass needs care, too. When I got it paid off, I swore to keep it forever. I've been offered 5K for it, but won't sell it cause I've gathered lots of parts for it over the years. Its my daily driver, but I also have a '79 GMC C-1500 with a 350 cu in crate engine and a Turbo 400 tranny I'm working on too. Someday it will be a camper with a DIY camper on the box. Best Regards!
The red light really needs to be incorporated into the new apartment some how. I miss seeing it at night on the old e bike
Agreed, I need to get a lot of stuff over here. I may end up getting a workshop here, unsure what I want.
btw i like your idea for the capacitor.
Stupid question, but what type of container are you using to fill the batteries, with the internal straw and spout?
Thanks
Hockey water bottle
excellent video where do you get the water bottle at? perfect for small batteries
Hello great video! I wonder if you could screw a screw into that one cap you couldn't get off and pull the screw out with vice grips?
This is an awesome. and informative. I am working on fixing a Car battery that my girlfriend's grandmother had. she left it outside forever I think. I will be over charging it, maybe it will work because, I tested it today, and it is showing that it is fixing the battery. if it doesn't work, I will try to put together a desulfator circuit, or buy one. :D
Just stumbled into your presentation and enjoy and learned something. Does epson salt really works?
yes it acts like battery acid to some extent
Nice video. However; to make it more useful or for a follow-on, you might address the causes of dead batteries. For instance; I have a Delco car battery that is 48 series, that was simply neglected. It is not old, but I let it get deep discharged more than once. Now, it won't take a charge, even though the interior lights come on (thus, it puts out at least 12 volts, right?). Does improper deep discharging cause sulfating... as well asage of the batery? Do I build a de-sulfater? Buy it? Where? Thanks again for an informative video.
you prolly warped the plates if you discharged it that much. but its the same as being old. idk experiment with it.
video was not too long. Good info is worth it. Thanks
First video I’ve seen from you and love the ponytail
thats a shame, this was before my gender transition. hope this video didnt make too much of an impression.
Can you revive a motorcycle battery with 0.475 DC volts only ?
i'd say its worth a shot but your chances are slim
@@RinoaL using a pulse car charger, battery didn't revive..... sad
Great job kid , thanks for the info buying a desulfater now ..
Thank you, I was going to turn in a perfectly good SLA battery that wouldn't charge above 11.7v. All it needed was a little fluid and some extra time on the charger.
The young lady was raised right. Very smart young lady I must say
Interesting video...thanks for posting
Hey, The best info that I have saw was on Volt daddy (i found it on google) Without a doubt the most useful info on batteries and this kind of thing that i have found.
Nice video until I got to 15:45 and the desulfator. You connect the desulfator to two batteries, the charged one and the sulfated battery. The sulfate crystals are an insulator, (correct?) Doesn't that mean the desulfator will desulfinate the charged battery which doesn't need to be desulfinated? (Everything is in parallel.)
Why don't you measure the specific gravity of the cells?
You did a nice job. Thanks
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Distilled water is a nonconductor try it. Try ohming distilled water in a clean glass. Then tap water.
Tap water particles will stick to your plates in the battery and u will loose cranking amps.
I think you misunderstood the chemistry book.
either way it still works great in a battery, and yes distilled water is slightly conductive. thats how you can electrolize it
this guys speaking a whole different language than i understand !
is there any way to fix shorted cells?
no you cant..
i just tried the method of washing out the black gunk in the bottom of mine (small automotive) 8 times with almost hot tap water and bakingsoda for the first 2 times, than a ninth time with di-water. Now it holds the charge again after filling back the filtered acid. The black gunk at the bottom was probably shorting out 1 or 2 cells (when the battery never stays over 10.3V or 8.1V respectively, this could be the cause).
Curious if you built that more powerful desulfator you mentioned and how it worked if so? (Wanted to PM you but don't know how to do that here on youtube.)
so its just distilled water you used? no epsom salt?
loved it have a Q , that desulfater you used ,are they buyable somewhere? or are they home made+ if so ,are there kits to buy, cus they are awsome!! thanx for the lesson.
i got it for 20$ on ebay, but i've found that its very week. so if your wanting to maintain a battery it might work ok but might want something with a higher power output to desulfate a bad battery.
thanx , i might lok in to it then. you got some good vid up , keep it up.
Dang you lifted that battery like superman in the beginning of your video.
a few videos before this i hollowed out the insides of that battery so its really light and can trick people haha. :P
Can u show how to build a desulfater, great video, cheers Graham
U can start an electrical fire with tap water.
After the engine starts (with a tap water battery) it will charge the battery and voltage will go through the tap water and plates and burn wires in the engine.
Electricity takes the shortest path.
no, the particles dissolved into the tap water may be more conductive if you have nasty water. but it is usually no more conductive than distilled water. please stop spreading misinformation and read some chemistry books. it would help you in life ^^
+MDTV Tube just stop
tap water freezes you dum Fuck!
MDTV Tube
yes it does, are you really that dumb that you think your the only person who knows that water freezes?
I bought a new 6 volt battery from a diy shop and it had 6 volts, but no amps. Do you think that the manufacturer forgot to fill in the electrolyte, or do you think it is something else?
hey, great video. I have a 12v car battery that starts to bubble when charging at approx 12v, 10amps. I've noticed however that one cell does not bubble. after charging it holds 12v until a heavy load is put and causing the voltage to drop to around 10. is it dead?
Hi is it recommended to leave caps off when trying to charge after filling with distilled water?....and then once charged put caps back on ?...also when you use 1 charger to charge multiple 12v batteries in parallel at one time how does charger know when to stop or continue charging?
You are doing a good job, kid....
Get a dremel to remove the caps on the battery with the matting that can be installed any way you want
Hey crazy question as I want to try this myself. Where did you get the water bottle with the spout?
Restoring 12 volt 12 amp hour batteries that used to have 30amps pulled from it. Can the batteries be used to pull the same amps while restoring the capacity?
Hi liked the video. New to all this and wondered how to make the desulfater you used? Hopefully spelling is right. Anyway maybe a location to buy one. Thanks
I got that one for 20$ from eBay and its really weak. but I haven't built any good ones myself yet.
I did try something that was promessing though. I built a circuit that would charge a cap to 30v then dump it into the battery as a high amp burst.
How long you recommend high V desulphanate? Until voltage restored from charging?