----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:18 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] How sealed are 'sealed gel batteries' (snip)
>................................................................. and I was >about to >give up when it was suggested to me that I 'reverse charged' them for 12 >hours at a high rate, (about 5 amps was the best I could manage) and >this brought the volts up to almost 10v - which was just enough to >encourage me to go further :) (snip) That's interesting. I used to use a similar technique on "dead" car batteries in my impoverished student days, but various battery experts state that lead acid batteries cannot be reverse charged, and any attempt totally destroys the battery. Nice to know I wasn't imagining it :-) -- Iain
