"Ben Okopnik" wrote:
> Many years ago, a "Good Old Boy" from Georgia showed me how to
> resuscitate a battery that was shorted: he drained the acid into a
> bucket, filled the battery full of water, turned it upside down and
> shook it as if he was making a cocktail for James Bond ("shaken, not
> stirred..."), then drained it out (note that this *does* require some
> muscle.) After doing that several times, he refilled it with acid,
> and -
> presto - working battery. I've used that trick with shorted batteries
> several times in the years since, and have been successful every
> time -
> which, I suppose, supports Arild's point.
Basically "unsulfated" a sulfated battery by removing the built up
sulfate from between the lead plates.
One of the reasons deep cycle batteries such as T-105 or L-16 have a
greater space between bottom of the case and the bottom of the plates.
Provides a storage space for sulfate without shorting out plates.
Lew
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