Stick Welder Battery Revival SUCCESS!
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- Our experimentation with bringing a dead lead acid battery back from the dead generated a lot of questions and a ton of comments. Here's how we didn't blow ourselves to smithereens in a deadly Hindenburg like hydrogen gas explosion.
This is how things stand one month later.
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Well done Tony. “Common sense is not a fruit that grows in everyone’s garden”. Love it
As the saying goes... The only thing thats common about common sense is that it's not common...
Thanks uncle Tony! This education will help save a lot of people with sense a lot of money on batteries.
I'm stealing that for a sticker on the back of my tractor trailer. With UTG credit
You can be book smart but if you do not have common sense your 🤦🏻♂️
If you can play with a 100 bucks than you are well off believe me
@@captainunderpants936 yup! Been there too and don’t want a rerun.
"Common sense the fruit that doesn't grow in everyone's garden." The new UTG t-shirt !!
Ah you beat me to it 😂
LOVE IT!!!
I'd buy that shirt! 😊👍
I'll buy that shirt lol
I have to remember that one!
Tony, you are right about $100 being a big deal for some of us: been there, done that, don't want to go back. If this trick only makes the battery last 6 months, that gives a guy a little breathing room.
Im running one thats 7 years old.boiled it twice.
Here in the Philippines, a brand new battery costs about P6,000 (more than $100) and that is a small fortune for many.
I have done 2 batteries since watching your video and it fixed both batteries. Both still working like new. It does actually work. Saved me a chunk of change. Thank you!
What welder you using?
@@iiro173 250A 110/220V Stick Welder ARC Welding Machine DC Inverter Welder Dual Voltage MMA Welder Digital Display,Inversor Soldador With Electrode Holder Cable Clamp
$80 on Amazon
@@BuildsAndMoreRacing have to buy one
@@BuildsAndMoreRacing $80 on Amazon is cheaper than buying one new battery 😂
Thank you Tony some people just don’t understand that hundred dollars to some is like $1000 to another being a sergeant major I’ve seen where $20 can change a privates life from being divorced because they can’t pay a bill or getting their vehicle running thank you for using common sense and trying to make the public understand thank you retired sergeant major Gamsby
Exactly.. the no-accounts and lay-abouts who live in their grandma's basement, getting allowance from a single mom, they have no clue about 💩 PERIOD.
But the hilarious part it that they think they know it all.
@@Crazy8ts yes it is the same battery. Your just a pseudo intellectual know it all, butthurt because Tony knows something you didn't. You should get over yourself.
Thank you for serving in the miltary and being an empathetic human being.
Their are not enough humans like you that are "apparent" in our current military. I hope it's due to negative propaganda?
That's honestly my only hope that is left for the US. A wonderful country that I was fortunate enough to be raised in.
My Dad was a retired USAF SAC B-36 and B-52 Bomber Aircraft Commander before serving over SEA for a year. 1968-1969. Then becoming a Strategic Nuclear Bomber Planner in Omaha and DC (the latter assignment drove him out).
My wife's Dad was a retired USAF SMSGT. He worked in logistics and served from the same base as my Dad in SEA.
I am an ex-USAF Officer married to a female Staff Sergeant 35 years ago. 2 wonderful Sons.
Your empathetic understanding of the lowest ranks in the military is the epitome of excellence for a Senior NCO.
Thank You.
For. REAL. I know there's inflation going on yaddayadda, but even w/that in play there's never been any shifting in my head towards thinking things w/$100-ballpark pricetags are a trivial cost/price point like the schmucks who rebuke the entire notion of extending SLA battery life w/an argument hinging on SLABatts = Super-duper cheap, bro! WHY TF ARE YOU EVEN BOTHERING WITH THIS?!? I assume the ones dismissive about DIY battery reconditioning reflexively do it bc that silver spoon they never *not* had on hand costs waaay more than $100.... Hell one of my fav hobbies is making cheap shit indestructible or some other upgrade in-kind, which is something that would literally never occur to me if I had the sort of upbringing/life allowing me to view things like car batteries as "cheap"
@@kurtilingus This administration has a lot of people living from paycheck to paycheck. I’m spending double on gas, groceries, electric, etc. my savings is gone. Thanks to Biden’s regime. This was a great video.
My dad taught me to lower the hood and lean over it when hooking up jumper cables roadside because water isn't handy to wash off the acid if the battery blows its top and the acid sprays your face. It happened on my 1980 sedan Deville and my whole shirt turned like Swiss cheese, but my ugly mug was unscathed. Thanks dad.
Crazy, I’d expect it to blow after being jumped due to the hydrogen gas evolving during the charging. Never thought there would be hydrogen gas coming out the battery when it’s in need of a jump
@@dirtyaznstyle4156 all it took was the little spark when putting on the cable.
@@nastybastardatlive Which is another reason the negative goes to the block and it's the last connection - just a little more distance. I also tend to pull the caps and put a damp rag over the top. And yes, "Thanks, dad!" on my part as well.
@@jameswyatt1304 I've got a pair of jumpers that has a plug in the middle ,and leds so you know polarity is correct.
Hook up each car and connect em in the middle, much safer spark distance 😃
@@MrTheHillfolk I operated a tow truck years ago where the jumper cables would plug into a receptacle mounted on the truck after connecting the battery terminals. Safety at a distance.
Since your first video I've shocked 2 batteries with my cheap Amazon welder that would not take a charge and both are still working. Take that for what it is worth.
Be safe...smh
Lol at first I thought you were saying the welder wouldn’t take a charge
How cheap? Is it a DC welder?
@@auteurfiddler8706 160
Good job !!
He has the same voice as Phil Hendry, the guy on the radio who does all these different voices and cracks people up with his Phil Hendry Show.! Awesome!
Your great dude! I did this to three of my car batteries. One of them was sitting on the side of my garage for maybe 2 years.Another battery was on its last leg bought and used since 2012. They all work like brand new batteries.thank you.
UTG, I’m glad you pushed back on the SAFETY QUEENS. I run job sites and I know how obnoxious these people can be… cheers.
Good stuff. People who haven't spent any appreciable time in the field repairing automobiles have little to no clue what we have gotten away with over the years. I applaud their caution, but a little common sense goes a long way. Keep up the good content.
Well it’s nice to know that everyone is watching this channel!! Even the ones that have no clue about what they’re talking about nor had any experience with what they are talking about!!
The long term neglect and discharge you described makes me think the plates were heavily sulfated. When you hit it with a lot of juice at once, it cleans the plates and battery's like new .
@ De Fund the Government, I agree with your analysis that the high amperage fed to the battery did loosen-up the built-up sulfulation on this dead battery... With that being said, if there was an internal short circuit that created heat, the battery could have easily caught on fire or explode... Tony does have a good assessment by wanting the electrolyte level above the plates, when charging it... But Tony was in error about something he said... The electrolyte is NOT pure sulfuric acid... There is water in the electrolyte. Believe it or not, when the battery is being charged, Hydrogen AND Oxygen are being separated from the water that was originally inert... After the electrolysis of the charging takes place, the dis-associated molecules of Oxygen and Hydrogen become a potentially combustible mixture... And yes, a fire or an extremely powerful explosion can easily take place... Hopefully when Tony tries this again, he'll leave the battery in a well ventilated room with plastic sheeting lining the walls, floor & ceiling... And he should have an ABC 10 POUND fire extinguisher ready to go....
Funny battery story. My father was a substation operator for a power company. We lived on site in a house attached to the control room. For emergency power there was a battery room with an inverter. It was housed in a maybe 8x8 room. There were 86 1.5 volt lead acid batteries. Each cell was about 1.5' long by 1' wide and 1.5' tall. Entire wall stacked 3 high. The ventilator had stopped working in the room. The company electrician came in to troubleshoot the issue. I was with my father at the time. Well the electrician went in the room, then there was a flash of light and wooshing sound. Kind of a vacuum feeling as the O2 was consumed. Thankfully I guess he left the door open. He comes out of the room with singed hair and eyebrows and the remnants of a cigarette in his mouth. He lit a cigarette. Yep a well ventilated room is your friend.
What a moron. Hope he learned his lesson.
I haven't stopped laughing 🤣😆🤣
😂😂😂😁
I have singed my hair twice. Once with a potato gun and once with a homemade jet engine. Hilarious! Good times
Back in the day, late 70's....my dad would pump gas with a lit cig in his mouth all the time. That's the way he smoked, he would just lite it and hold it in his mouth the entire time and hardly took drags off of it.
Tony is always on the look out for my wallet. I’m a single man who doesn’t earn much and I feel like this is one of the only channels that has my interests in mind. Thanks mate.
Hi mate! Iv just come across your channel first video the battery revive with a stick welder and now this one 👍👍
I love the way you present your knowledge so humble and cool man can't wait to watch more of your videos 🤙🤙 from Cody Australia 🦘
I'd like this video and I really appreciate your honesty. The world needs more honest men. It brings integrity.
I don't know which comment tickled me more: "Common sense isn't a fruit that grows in everybody's garden," or "I know explosions! Believe me!" The imageries of these sentiments are timeless. This video and the previous one were both informative and engaging. Thanks!
I for one love the experiment Uncle Tony & have enough common sense to read between the lines great job thanks for the follow up, kinda waited on it b4 I tried it, but there are a small % of folks that need a babysitter, hold there hand walk them thru EVERY little detail have the finest educations u can buy, scratch there heads at some simplest tasks, I earned my common sense a little at a time at school of Hard Knocks
How about this comment….. thank you uncle Tony for looking out for us poor guys. Keep ‘em coming. And for those who have dough and doubt. We’ll leave your doubt and break out your dough we will turn your old battery new!! 🎉😮
Thanks so much. Saw this post and tried it just as you did it. It worked and l am on my second year with the rejuvenated battery!!!
My truck sits sometimes 6-7 days in Arizona heat and starts the first try….
Thanks again 👍👍
Dave
This works. I've measured progress with a load tester and specific gravity tester, monitored each cell, gradually increase from 1.150(dead) to 1.270(useable)
Not all batteries are savable especially ones that have already had a long life and do your best not to overheat the battery, cycling the welder on for 15 minutes off for five for about five cycles then test the specific gravity. If you don't get the specific gravity reading that you're looking for (1.270-1.280) give the battery an hour to cool internally, repeat. Also, don't bother load testing until the battery is holding a full charge (at least 12.75 volts) load testing and uncharged battery does more damage, not good if you're trying to save it in the first place.
There's the rub... Certain types of failures are able to be fixed with the method, which, as you mention, doesn't involve batteries used on a daily basis for many years that have simply degraded.
@@tarstarkusz exactly. Batteries in daily driven cars that have long lives typically fail because lead falls from the plate matrixes and fill the bottom of the cells causing an internal short. With that being said this is a great method to desolfate batteries that have sat for long periods not in use or accidental over discharge "drained" battery set otherwise won't recharge.
@@tarstarkusz haha that's kind of like the seal swell stop leak stuff for engines and transmissions.
If it's worn from use ,forget it it's not gonna work.
If it's for a barn find that's been sitting, it might work.
Kinda like the battery dealio.
no it doesnt
Tony, just for the record, batteries can and do indeed blow up if aggressively overcharged with a welder(ac/dc or dc welder - electrode positive dc setting). Twice I had seen a battery "explode". Once next to me while a fellow crew member try to jump-start a dead battery with jumper cables on an aircraft tow tractor with another tow tractor on an aircraft carrier. He shorted the battery out and it exploded, I got a face full of acid, and the top of the battery was gone. The next time was a decade later while I was working(ironworker) on a jobsite and a coworker tried to use a gas-driven welder to "charge" a dead battery and he overcooked it on the highest dc setting(300 amps), it completely exploded, there was virtually nothing left except the very bottom part of the battery and tiny bit of the internal lead/antimony plates and the battery box was blown apart. Exploding batteries can and will cause severe harm with very serious injuries and even death from shrapnel from the exploding battery.
Well boiling the battery would reduce the electrolyte causing hydrogen and oxygen build up and all it needed was a spark causing a fash back into the battery and cause it's contained it would blow the top off in the right conditions saying he was jumping it meaning there was lack of acid and cud of been building up gases over time .....😅
I was amazed and went and tried this... It worked on a battery that's been sitting for over two years dead. Awesome battery hats off to you
Thanks my friend. I had an old cheaper than cheap ac welder kicking around the shop so I bought a diode setup for it to convert to DC and duplicated your experiment. WORKS GREAT !! The battery I used was 7 years old with a dead cell… 24 hours on a regular battery charger yielded only 10.5 volts . After charging and then resting the battery overnight it’s settled in at 12.7V and load tests in the green!! It’s back in the car and working as it should. NOTE… my old welder didn’t have a cooling fan and tripped the internal protector so I had to wire in a good high flow fan that I had kicking around…all is good now.
Battery EXPLOSIONS !!!
I'm 74yrs old and mostly been around cars, semi's and heavy equipment my entire life. First growing up on a Ranch/Farm...(Yeah, for those that don't know what a Ranch/Farm is...We raised Cattle, Roping Horses and a few other barnyard animals BUT we also grew Alfalfa and Barley as cash crops. THUS the term; RANCH/FARM)
ANYWAY, getting back to BATTERY EXPLOSIONS. The ONLY TIME I've Ever had or seen ANY BATTERY EXPLODE was when I tried to jump start a 12volt Tractor Battery in the dead of a Montana Winter when it was -42 degrees ...that's BELOW ZERO. So what can we take away from that...Batteries do not like a sudden jolt of voltage when the internals are frozen....yeah, Batteries can FREEZE at those temps. As a matter of fact when that battery did explode it showed a heavy frost on the outside and a frozen jellyton on the inside of the case. I didn't get sprayed with any Electrolyte Fluid....about soled my underwear but was not hurt in any way, shape or form because it was just FROZEN and couldn't expand from the sudden jolt of 12volts. I learned to take all batteries out and keep them inside the Mud-Room until needed from that day on. Lessons learned.
I've seen ROOKIE guys hook terminals up opposite on construction sites when jumping and hook up the negative to positive and never seen any explosions and even a 24volt semi hooked up to a pick up with only 12volt...none of them exploded but sure threw spares like the 4th of JULY Fireworks Display....and one had the caps off because it needed the thing topped off....Even then it did not explode...It takes one hell of a lot to make any battery explode folks....One HELL of LOT, so think before you let your fingers run rampant without thinking first.
The manner this was done was well within the SAFE ZONE so if you don't know anything then please just keep your trap shut.......otherwise you just show the entire world just how little you know, or don't know anything at all about what your attempting to talk about.
I just laughed reading some of the comments and had to watch this follow up...Good STUFF.
Keep up the great videos guys.
I had a battery pop when I fired it up once. The motor started and I smelled the cloud. I got out, with engine running, and lifted the hood. The top of the battery and flower petaled, each cell top going the opposite direction. Acid spray across the underside of the hood and across the top of engine.
I dropped the hood, drove to the store, and bought a new battery. They were NOT happy when I brought in the wreck of a battery! "I can't give you core return on that!" I said "Fine!" and left it on the counter. Drove to the self serve car wash and power washed the engine and compartment. No further issues.
Thank you for this video and your previous one. Very well taught and received. Tomorrow I'm doing 2 dead batteries. I wish more guys could be as direct and concise in their experiments as you were. Regards. Shawn Vilander, Utrecht, South Africa
Hi Shawn.
How'd it go?
Thanks I'm glad you showed this.👍💞
I've known about the "high DC current" technique to rejuvenate bad car batteries for a while but have never tried it. I have a few project vehicles all with bad batteries. Going to get my stick welder out and see what results I get.
Loved both videos and agree with everything you said. I design battery backup systems for refinery control systems that take up entire rooms. Your desulphation trick is based on sound principles and the H2 ignition risk in your shop as you clearly explained was approximately zero.
Ya well, to a "safety joe", approximately zero, is not good enough...
i like that you say approximate. He went a little far imo saying no chance at all. that said i for sure would do exactly what he did except maybe outside but he did also mention in the original if i remember right he would have also but for video sake it wasn't doable. again, id have no problem doing exactly as he did given those circumstances. Also, on his last point about 100 dollars, i wanna add sometimes the parts store isnt open or you've been drinking with buddies finishing up a project and want to hear it run but nobody can drive, but you just gotta hear it run. Id rather give this a shot than head out on the road. plus, its just really cool to learn something like that and i bet thats why the video got so popular. its just so dam cool
What a GREAT phrase about common sense! We are similar in so many ways. Save everything! You never know what you could use it for! Saved me a lot of cash through the years! Common Sense! I'm not a rocket surgeon but daddy didn't raise a complete fool! I've learned all I know from people who were older than I! I was a kid who loved to hang around elders. That's where true wisdom comes from. People who have been around the block a few times! I still try to learn everyday. Lastly, Mopars rule! God bless you my friend! Watch you don't blow your face off! Ha!
When your channel first started I remember your first frustrations with haters, know-it-alls, and just generally dumb comments. Im glad you're back to responding to them, and having some fun with it!!! "Catastrophic mushroom cloud..." That had me rollin!!!🤣 Thanks for the morning laugh Uncle!!!👍
Thanks for helping the young people who really are chosing to spend the tight money on their transportation to get money from the job or having food or clothing. I love how you understand hard starts and help improve young enthusiasts stay in budget. So thank you for the great videos
Thanks for the update. Will try on several old batteries. Gotta deep cycle for my boat that is " begging ' for a dance with a little inverter DC that's been sitting around.
I love this chanell! There is no shortage of idiots willing to show-off their ignorance. Keep up the good work Uncle T.
Tony, WELL DONE!!Awesome results....so far. Send this bad boy battery to Project Farm! Let HIM do the deep freeze test! Does it work?" We are going to find out!" HA! Seriously...cross feeding cool and scientific testing is always a good thing. Think of cross pollination between nerds! TH-cam style! Your viewers will appreciate this! So will I. Thanks Tony!! Motor Parts RULE! :)
Airbags scare me more and my car has several of them pointed at me.
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The "blowing the front of the car off", kilt me dead. Too funny
Thanks for your common sense approach to life. You're a treasure, especially for those to who know a hundred bucks for a battery may mean the difference between paying the rent or getting evicted from their home.
Tony! You have my respect brother! I completely understand everything you do or talk about, and I'm not "that" smart, so you must be very very good at explaining your topic / subject ya.
BUT!! I bet you could use a lifetime supply of painkillers for the headache(s) you suffer from due to the very hi level of stoopid / proudly ignorant comments from the mouth breathers that have a keyboard at their disposal!
You are a wise wise man and you certainly know your stuff!
Nothing but respect here my man ✔️
That was 1 helluva CCA; cold cranking amps, test run there Uncle T. Great video 👌 awesome info.
I've bought several batteries from a guy down the road that reconditions them. I had no idea how he did it. Now that I know, I might have to use my own stick welder.
Anyway, most of his batteries last a few more years. It is a good deal and well worth it. Especially when you have a lot of equipment that gets used occasionally but needs a battery.
i have been doing it for years as well as using the welder for jump start 50% success rate. you should really put some cables on the battery and hook the welder to the cables so that when you turn it on (bad connect) you don't melt the lead terminal off (melted off) but yes it does work
Good idea. I have a bunch of old boat batteries that I was going to scrap after I used them for a couple years on my solar system, these are really dead. Would help me be a bit farther from them, cause I'm using a gas powered welder so shutting it off every time and starting it up again to re-hook it up again, wouldn't be worth it, Thanks
Interested in an off grid solar setup. The battery degradation is a thing that I have been grappling with. This switches up the ROI a great deal. If zapping them like this adds 5-10 years to a bank of 4 batteries going for $400 each, that is nothing to scoff at...
Laundryroom incident again 🤣🤣🤣🤣😍
Great down to earth video, I love the way you present the information and I have a couple of dead batteries that I will try this method on. Don't take the negative comments to heart. I think these people lack one of life's necessity 'common sense'. Keep up the great videos. Greg W.
' believe me, I know explosions...' I never thought you would top the armrest piece but you did... congratulations.
“If sense were common, everyone would have it.” Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein.
Greetings from the high plains of Texas.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Gonna try it with a 80 amp welder on a 30 year old battery, see if it works. 2 kids in college so I’m dirt poor for the next 4. Thanks again for your knowledge!
I have saved 3 batteries so far thanks to this trick. That's so much in savings, for the cheap welders cost. I'm about to try it in my dad's truck batteries, just had to come by and say thanks
You have blown my mind sir! I love it! 150A is a high output alternator. I will now go & buy a HF stick welder I previously thought was obsolete. As it stands, I have burned out MANY other battery chargers. The stick welder revolution!
My favorite line of the day I know explosions.
We could calculate the evolution of H2 during the entire charging cycle. My guess is that the volume of air in the building and the air leakage from the building causing air exchange would dilute the O2 and H2 mix to a point below the critical concentration for an explosive event AND a conflagration event. TLDR version, no boom, no fire. 😁👍
Holy Cow, we have point dexter in the room. not an insult but Kudos, takes hat off because someone smarter than me knows this stuff. whats the algebraic formula or can you write down the calculation. this is what i'm talking about Foghorn Leghorn - Hide and Seek th-cam.com/video/jMyD3TSXyUc/w-d-xo.html
I use to watch my dad when I was a kid take a steel bar and with the battery caps off take that bar and come straight down on the posts and if a cell started bubbling that meant the battery had a bad cell. My Dad worked at Gatlings Auto Store in the !970's and sold and put in alot of car batteries in vehicles for customers...
Thank you Tony we appreciate all the tips and especially the money saving tips
Auto shop story from high-school back in the day(circa1980)...
Shop teacher was demonstrating how most engines keep running even if ya have a dead cylinder and if you know the engine, you can temporarily balance the engines by cutting the 180 degree firing cylinder. He did it and it ran great.
However, in the demonstration, he let his gaurd down a second and flopped the ignition cable onto the battery. He new the problem the moment he did it and he violently knocked us away and in the same motion grabbed the nearby water hose. We were kinda wondering what had gotten into him.
As he reached the water hose, the ignition cable ignited the hydrogen gas coming off the battery. I can tell you that it was not a simple pop...it was a really impressive ka-boom that distorted the fender next to the battery. We got hosed down immediately and learned an important lesson...respect any machinery and never let your gaurd dwn when working around it.
Awesome.
I had a dead battery for an Audi A3 3.2 it wouldn't hold a charge. And I tried this experiment and it's actually starting the car and holding a charge. This saved me so much because Batteries ain't cheap in January.
My skepticism comes from living in sub zero temps. I gotta say I'm impressed! Might try this with an old battery, if it ain't froze and broke already. Still wouldn't use it in my main driver, that HAS to start, on call 24/7 -40F or warmer.
I have an old battery that used to be in my car, became unreliable and i replaced it. Kept the old one though. It's been used as a ghetto lighting source (using a darn headlight bulb for some light in a shed). Died MANY times over. Would be cool to see if it could bring it back to its glory days. Or even a battery from a current vehicle which on the -15 C days, its getting weak. Not the daily, worst case, it doesn't work.
This is the first time I've ever seen your video it's great! I once had a 12volt battery blow i yong and it was on a 63ford Y block I was 15years old trying to jump it with cables it was sparkling so thought to myself the sparks were like a welder and should not be looked at so I moved my head behind the hood and at that second it blowed it sent caps over the fence about 10 feet and covered me from neck to lower chest not a drop in my eyes or face. Some 45years later I've never it happen again! Now I always wear safety glasses after that epic 😎 day! Thanks for your time!!!
So your saying if the battery explodes it won’t be visible from space. 🤣. Brilliant mate. Keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍
I tried this with a riding mower battery. I'm lucky to get more than 1 year out of a mower battery. Battery went dead :-( .... The stick welder trick worked! Just tried one application of welder, homemade welder, no amp control so I was a little nervous. Have since bought an inverter welder so I'm good to go!!! Thanks Tony
Great video UTG! Thank you for doing this video and the original as well!
Thank you Tony for taking the time to follow up and explain, with respect, the way hydrogen makes a charging battery dangerous and how to overcome that danger with simple knowledge and methods.
Ventilation is key. Low ppms is your friend.
Thank you Uncle Tony for the follow-up, great info, & always a laugh.
We used to use our Lincon AC 225 Amp Stick Welder to Thaw Frozen pipes on our Farm from the pump to our house. We would CRANK IT WIDE OPEN until the pipe warmed up and thawed out the ice , some times it took an hour or hour and a half . Never HAD AN ISSUE WITH THE Welder! I have been a Certified Welder for the past 40 years . I can count on one hand how many times i Actualy hit the Duty Cycle OVERLOAD.
Had a former employee grinding right by a battery on a truck that was charging off of a shoreline charger. The hydrogen gas "lit off" and blew the top off partially off of the case.. LOL (Probably wouldn't of been an issue if it hadn't been charging at the time causing off gassing) A bit of caution and you will be fine.. (the battery that lit off --was vented type and didn't have caps on top). This is a "working process --as long as the battery is not physically defective internally as you said - i.e. broken connection between plates etc.)--after seeing plenty of battery "explosions" I can attest to your correctness of said explosion only really being a "pop"--not a nuclear bomb explosion--LOL great video! (35+ years mechanical experience here!) Love your videos!
Uncle Tony you have tought me a lot. Love your videos. Please don't listen to the haters. You have a lot of knowledge and it's nice to learn from it.
Absolutely amazing information !
GREAT VIDEO TONY , KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDEOS. 👍Thanks for the shout out last night it was funny Bub was running the harness right when you told him too .He wasn't expecting it made us laugh 😆Hope Kathy is doing ok
I've had a battery where it died and I used Inox battery conditioner in it and set my workshop charger to reco which has a desulfate mode. Well I got about 4 extra months and needed to reco charge it every week or two. The inox dissolved the sulff in the bottom.
What happened is after reco charging it so many times big holes formed in the plates.
The reco mode hits the battery with a DC squarewave so it stays positive and just varies the voltage from 16v down to I think 13v. It's a very similar process to using at welder at 18v because as it bubbles the local resistance at the plate will rise giving VD.
So I imagine this will only work a couple of times before the plates just deteriorate and the battery is dead dead.
Great video sir my respect for you 💯% people now a days don't appreciate some like you keep it
Starting battery for my RV is $200 and I need two of them.....Thank you Tony
I've read for years that what causes battery failure is plate calcification and anything that can remove it makes the battery work. If the welder caused the calcification off seems to me it would work. I exploded a battery once and I found out it was internally shorted and when I hooked the big charger to it the post blew out of it covering me in battery acid but that was not like this, it was a dead short. My welder is AC only else I would give it a try.
In more northern places, any batteries left without a charge will freeze. Frozen batteries swell and often split out the bottom or sides. Most of those batteries are beyond repair. Some of the cells might come back, but not enough volts combined with cold cranking amps depend on for a grocery getter. Owning cars in the north is so much more work. I'm moving. Please make room for me in the Uncle Tony studio!
Nice, as teenager i used to carry two dead batteries in the trunk and 2 sets of cables because if car went dead I could daisy chain 3 together and get enough to crank it over. I've done this welder trick too, and it does work on batteries that the plates are still there. It blasts the oxidation off.then once expose the fresher plate surfaces, voltage and amps come back. But, you have to have plates left. I've also seen batteries that register 12.8 volts but can't crank a watch. No surface left. No amps.
Tony! Big up your are the Best. Moses from Kenya.
Brilliant follow up video. Cheers.
A trick a guy who used to build batteries told me was to blow a breath of air across the battery before connecting or disconnecting the cables, it's enough to disperse any accumulated gasses.
Thank you for a super experiment and follow up..its very usefull, also in alternative energy, its wise to know how to charge batteries..I like the attitude and logic, thats what we need, an analytic alert and logic approach, to escape the mainstream downdumbing....thanks I send you love and light and all the followers ...have a nice day.
Good common sense enough said.👍
When Im charging w/ the caps off, I usually lay a small rag over the holes to keep the action contained and everything clean.
I did this with a stone dead battery using 2 50 amp 12 volt chargers in parallel. Worked great and now starts my 9.5:1 454 in below freezing weather.
Looking forward to whatever your next experiment is going to be
I'm looking forward to when we Americans are as free as Tony's hydrogen!!
@@ripvanrevs Don't you ever doubt for a minute that some Americans do not get that high......
@@ripvanrevs The captain has turned off the seat belt sign you are now free to move about the cage.
@@ripvanrevs sadly those days are as long gone as that hydrogen is
Do a similar test on a motorcycle or atv battery. Set on lowest amperage?
Nice work Uncle Tony!
Thanks for the update on the Battery. 👍😊
Well said! Thanks for your follow up. I got a dead battery from AAA from 6/20. Came out and put a digital tester on it. 2 volts, but because the machine didn't say “fail”, they wouldn't replace it. Going to try this hack & see if it works as good for me.
Thanks!
Ha like the guy at work who went to check the water level . It was dark out so he used a LIGHTER . Yes he missed a few "fruit " from his garden when he was growing up .Keep up the good work .
Watching this made me see how much inflation has gone up. He said a battery costs a hundred bucks and yes, a year ago they did. I bought a battery brand new from Autozone and it was $265 bucks! It was the same battery as the one I had in the car that I bought 5 years ago for $90 bucks. You gotta do what you can to save $$$. Thanks for the advice Tony!
Uncle Tony is the best!
I had a battery explode on my lawn tractor while in operation, battery located under the seat, glad the seat has a thick metal plate, ouch. Thanks for the great videos (both) working on a fleet of neglected golf carts, not much hope but we will git it a try
Pretty neat. 1 problem with it I can think of is the crud you boil off the plates can settle on the bottom and short it internally given the right bump in the road.
Dad told me a story about my grandad bumping into a loading dock at Agway and his battery exploding, pretty wild
i wonder if it didnt knock a cable loose..... and cause a short
or cause the 24 volt system to turn into a 48 volt system
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or something like that
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if their was a "piece of trash" in the bottom...... i think it would simply get red hot and melt/turn to dust before it blew up a battery
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now if it was a LARGE piece of trash..... i could see it getting hot enough to boil the acid/water
and the steam causing the caps to pop off
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but FULL ON explode..... idk man
usually it takes a LARGE short..... or LARGE over charge/current/voltage to BLOW UP a battery
I had one blow up in front of me after a young fella disconnected the cable before turning off the charger as I walked by...Massive BANG and shit went everywhere...Luckily there was a shower close by and under and I went quick smart....My ears rang for days after....
Thank you Tony; this was interesting, I think I’ll give it a try. Although, I will wear goggles and a shield just because I know my luck. There was a high school student that was smoking while jumping his car, the battery exploded, he almost lost his eyes and he was scarred up. But the caps were still on the battery when it exploded. I wouldn’t trust just glasses to protect your eyes. God bless you Tony. Great video
OMG! A louder horn is cheaper than new brakes.
Tell 'em, Tony.
Thanks Tony .
Thanks Tony. Appreciate the video.
That $100 means something for me.
Thank you Tony! I didn't know how to this before.
You're not alone. This new century keeps asking questions that were answered in the turn of the nineteenth.