On Sat May 04 17:10:30 PDT 2013 [email protected] said: >At 08:29 AM 5/05/2013, John wrote: >>So, my old Electric Forklift has a weak battery. >>Even after a full charge, the cells are reading a SG of 1.15. >>Is there any way to restore some capacity to this? I really can't >>afford a new battery for it. > >G'day John, All > >We discovered that all of the cells had low S.G. and low terminal >volts, but still had good capacity (since we don't know how much they >were supposed to have originally, we guess at least 70% and up to 90% >of capacity). How this came to be we don't know.
One thing I apparently didn't make clear is that it appears that ALL of the cells have low SG. This battery is likely 10 years old. -- Worlds only All Electric F-250 truck! http://john.casadelgato.com/Electric-Vehicles/1995-Ford-F-250 _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
