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Or you can go to Walmart and get a new battery for about $35 and be done with the hassle.... Elwood In a message dated 9/5/03 1:13:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 01:07 5/09/2003 -0600, you wrote: >When a lead acid battery sits without a charge for a while, the plates >start to sulfate. Yep, there are two ways to reduce sultatation. 1. Give the battery a good load. Something like 10A for 20 minutes. Watch out the battery will boil. This will shake the cristals lose and they will sink to the bottom. 2. Add some Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid (EDTA) to the electrolite this will disolve small cristals Commercial names of this are 'YUASA sulfate stop','Longa-batt',.... You can order this from www.pureresearch.co.uk (no affiliation). -------------------------------1062785530 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUTF-8 http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charse= t=3Dutf-8"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>Or you can go to Walmart and get a new battery for about $35 and be don= e with the hassle....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Elwood</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 9/5/03 1:13:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] nicandtechnology.be writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue=20= 2px solid"><FONT face=3DArial>At 01:07 5/09/2003 -0600, you wrote:<BR>>Wh= en a lead acid battery sits without a charge for a while, the plates <BR>>= ;start to sulfate. <BR><BR>Yep, there are two ways to reduce sultatation.<BR= ><BR>1. Give the battery a good load. Something like 10A for 20 minutes. Wat= ch<BR>out the battery will boil.<BR>This will shake the cristals lose and th= ey will sink to the bottom. <BR><BR>2. Add some Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic= Acid (EDTA) to the electrolite<BR>this will disolve small cristals<BR>Comme= rcial names of this are 'YUASA sulfate stop','Longa-batt',....<BR><BR>You ca= n order this from www.pureresearch.co.uk (no affiliation).</FONT></BLOCKQUOT= E></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1062785530--
