Re: (ET) charging

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

Good luck.  I got a 12V one bout 5 yrs ago and it didn't do nothin for me
but blink it's little red light.  Perhaps my batteries were eaten up at
he bottom instead of being sulfated.  It has been the general experience
by fullsize lectric car guys that the batteries we use won't sulfate due
to the high charge and especially high discharge rates we use heep em
clean.  Our 'good range' lifetime seems to be around 22 - 25, 000 miles
or bout 500 charging cycles. Afte that they are only good for Etracks or
small solar PV systems.

Dave
Weymouth MA


On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:39:06 -0400 Neil Dennis <wombatt gmail com>
writes:
> IIRC, there was a comment on maybe the desulfater group that a 
> "close" 
> to batt voltage charger would cause
>  the build up of sulfates and thus cause lower capacity fairly 
> rapidly.  
> I know on my 10 yr old pack (still working) when i went to a 
> different 
> charger with higher capacity the available power came up quite a 
> bit.  
> The "fuel" meter used to go just into the white zone, now it goes 
> about 
> 2/3 up in it - to me that says the batts are working better.
> 
> Now I've gotta build a desulfater
> 
> wombat
> 
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