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Originally Posted by TheSGC
It sounds like that battery has wondered into the world of sulfation. Have you replaced it yet? And are you charging it with 12 AMPs(?) or at another setting?
Or for that matter, checked the water levels of the cells?
I am curious on how it failed, or how it was killed.  |
I haven't replaced it. It always showed good voltage, and the hygrometer (sp??) showed "fully charged" equally on all cells when I first got it (after it's first charge), but volume was low in 2 cells. Here's where I think I killed it: I topped off the two cells with some battery acid from another battery instead of using good ole' distilled H2O. What was I thinking? I have no idea. I suppose I was teaching myself yet one more way one can murder a battery: I'm getting quite skilled at that. But anyway, it never finished charging after I did that; so I would just stop charging that battery when all the others in the pack were done charging. It was fine that way for a while until it got cold. I am guessing it was doing ok but that the extra recharging time the OTHER batteries needed because of the cold made me overcharge it. I really have no way of knowing as I am SOOOO bad at checking things and logging stuff. I just get in my car and go, and say "screw the batteries"
. Now that we are on break, I took the desulfator off of the lowest battery and put it on this one, and I have the trickle charger on it (I gave it a regular 12 amp charge with the other batteries last week, and a 12 amp top-off about 4 days later). I have my doubts this will work, but I won't know until I try. I think I'm being so lazy with my battery cruelty because of the fact that I can turn them in for scrap, but I bet if I paid good money for them I would be more careful. At least I can tell myself that....