Tom, Sorry, but there is no good cure for your exhausted SLA battery. They do have a limited lifetime, but if left discharged for a significant length of time, there is no bringing them back. I would guess that your efforts to bring it back to life would cost you more time and energy than the cost of a new battery - but then each has his own criteria for the worth of his time - YMMV.
73, Don W3FPR Tom McCulloch wrote: > Hi all, > > > I know, I know... I should have used a trickle charger on my K2's battery > like the one Don, W3FPR talks about at: http://w3fpr.qrpradio.com/index.htm > . But I didn't. Before I take the easy way out and order a new battery from > Elecraft (only 30 bucks, so that's not too bad), does anyone have any ideas > to bring my old battery back to life? > > The problem was that I went QRT for a year or so and left the battery > unattended and now it won't hold a charge. > > On the bright side, I'm now building an SLA trickle charger similar to the > A&A Engineering one that Don mentions...there was a QST article on it a > while back...so that's been fun, but it's not finished yet and my battery > needs mouth to mouth... > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Tom > WB2QDG > K2 #1103 > > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
