Re: [MBZ] Battery desulfator

2020-12-21 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
As an aside, when I tried to start the Pisten Bully the other day the batteries were pretty flat. I pulled them and put 'em on the charger. Each got 24 hours on the 10a charger (they seemed to draw about 4a for 3 or so hours and then dropped down to 2) and 24 hours on the desulfator

Re: [MBZ] Battery desulfator

2020-12-19 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] Battery desulfator

2020-12-18 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Read this thread at the 500E forum. There are a couple of people there who have come close ot making careers over reviewing and understanding when these things do. https://www.500eboard.co/forums/threads/battery-maintainer-recommendations.14521/

Re: [MBZ] Battery desulfator

2020-12-18 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
http://jgdarden.com/batteryfaq/carfaq16.htm This is the article I was thinking of. "Equalizing" is what he calls it, not "rebalancing". - Max Charleston SC On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 2:45 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I presume that idea of these

Re: [MBZ] Battery desulfator

2020-12-18 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Well I'm not sure that going bigger than 2A is going to decrease the 'cure' time. When I was looking at these, I thought that the magic was in the voltage spike / harmonics, not the current rating. I also read an article from a guy who seemed to be very knowledgeable on battery chemistry and his

[MBZ] Battery desulfator

2020-12-18 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
I presume that idea of these things is to take an old dead battery and resurrect it by cleaning off the sulfur gunk off the plates?  I got plenty of test subjects sitting around. I see this 1A model for https://www.amazon.com/NOCO-GENIUS1-Fully-Automatic-Temperature-Compensation/dp/B07W46BX31