Chances are that your battery has some permanent sulfation, if it will not “take” or “hold” a charge and exhibits one or more of the following conditions: If your wet (flooded) Standard (Sb/Sb) or wet (flooded) Low Maintenance (Sb/Ca) battery has been not been recharged for over three months, especially if the temperature in the storage area was consistently over 77° F...
read morePeople kill more deep cycle batteries with poor charging practices, than die of old age! Sulfation Lead sulfation actually starts when you remove the charging voltage a full charged lead-acid battery. The lead sulfate crystals are converted back to lead during the normal charging cycle. The real question is, if all of the lead sulfate crystals are not turned back into lead, how long does it take...
read moreAs long as there is still active material in a car or motorcycle battery and the plates aren’t shorted, any battery that fails due to lead sulfate crystallization has a chance of being revived and reused. This is not only limited to car batteries, but to ALL lead acid batteries! There are already battery clinics in certain countries now that revive and recondition batteries, which are...
read moreOver the years, calcium has been added to lead plates to improve grid strength and conductivity, and reduce gassing and its self-discharge rate. With this, the low-maintenance or maintenance-free battery was introduced. However, the alloy plate is still consists of more than 99% lead. Whether the battery is calcium-calcium, calcium-silver, lead-calcium, or lead-antimony, it is still ...
read moreThe three stage charging process of the Infinitum 3-Stage Battery Charger is illustrated in the graph below and constitutes a Bulk Charge, Absorption Charge, and Float Charge. Bulk Charge: The first stage of 3-stage battery charging. Current is sent to batteries at the maximum safe rate they will accept until voltage rises to near (80-90%) full charge level. Voltages at this stage typically...
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