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I recently acquired a bike with a fairly heavy sulfated battery. I promptly removed it cleaned up the tray, fittings etc... and installed new battery.
For some unknow reason I decided to see if I could bring the bad battery back to life. I cleaned it up, topped it off and hooked up the tender. It reached full charge in about 24 hrs. I rotate various batteries with this tender and it wound up back on this BAD battery. It's been hooked up for about two weeks and I just noticed it.
The #%^&*$ thing has sulfated at the negative terminal and eaten the spring clamp for the tender. The clamp is virtually fused to the terminal.
Now I'm %^&*@. I feel like throwing the %^&*$ thing across the garage. (That would be reeeeeal stupid)
I could have sworn I cleaned those terminals. Apparently NOT.
So trying so salvage a POS battery, I have damaged a piece of equipment. Oh I can fix it alright, but it's the point.
What is the point anyway? I'm not really sure but I do feel better talking about it.
I know someone will understand.
For some unknow reason I decided to see if I could bring the bad battery back to life. I cleaned it up, topped it off and hooked up the tender. It reached full charge in about 24 hrs. I rotate various batteries with this tender and it wound up back on this BAD battery. It's been hooked up for about two weeks and I just noticed it.
The #%^&*$ thing has sulfated at the negative terminal and eaten the spring clamp for the tender. The clamp is virtually fused to the terminal.
Now I'm %^&*@. I feel like throwing the %^&*$ thing across the garage. (That would be reeeeeal stupid)
I could have sworn I cleaned those terminals. Apparently NOT.
So trying so salvage a POS battery, I have damaged a piece of equipment. Oh I can fix it alright, but it's the point.
What is the point anyway? I'm not really sure but I do feel better talking about it.
I know someone will understand.