10-12-2012, 05:05 PM
Looks to me like the desulfator is working.
The bubbles are ok, but be careful as they are hydrogen and oxygen bubbles, and you know what happens if ya have a spark near that lot!
I have a couple of suggestions: bung a car tail light bulb in series with that batttery charger to limit the current the battery can take. a 21 watt light bulb (the average tail light bulb) will allow around 2 amps and will be a bit safer on the battery whilst its being desulfated, I am using a charger with around 1 amp output on one battery and 1/2 amp on another. The desulfator only draws around 1/10th of that. Better still if you can use one of the bulbs out of a car that are around 10 watts.
Patience grasshopper the desulfator works at around 1/2 kilo worth of battery per day, and you cant hurt it by leaving the desulfator on it too long, it'll just flatten it eventually unless to trickle charge it as well.
If one part of the battery is quite a bit warmer than another, it can mean a shorted cell by dendrites, load up the battery with a headlight bulb on high and low beams together and discharge it down to 10.5 volts. After that, trickle charge it back up with the desulfator connected.
The bubbles are ok, but be careful as they are hydrogen and oxygen bubbles, and you know what happens if ya have a spark near that lot!
I have a couple of suggestions: bung a car tail light bulb in series with that batttery charger to limit the current the battery can take. a 21 watt light bulb (the average tail light bulb) will allow around 2 amps and will be a bit safer on the battery whilst its being desulfated, I am using a charger with around 1 amp output on one battery and 1/2 amp on another. The desulfator only draws around 1/10th of that. Better still if you can use one of the bulbs out of a car that are around 10 watts.
Patience grasshopper the desulfator works at around 1/2 kilo worth of battery per day, and you cant hurt it by leaving the desulfator on it too long, it'll just flatten it eventually unless to trickle charge it as well.
If one part of the battery is quite a bit warmer than another, it can mean a shorted cell by dendrites, load up the battery with a headlight bulb on high and low beams together and discharge it down to 10.5 volts. After that, trickle charge it back up with the desulfator connected.
"If a clutered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign." Albert Einstein
Well, I have the cluttered desk, I guess that's a start!
Well, I have the cluttered desk, I guess that's a start!