[DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight tonight!

[Dave Londry]

Let me add - the length of time that a battery sits discharged is really 
critical.
The damage done if it's flat for a week is complete, a day is bad and an 
hour may only be a bad scare.
dave


On 10/25/2010 10:18 AM, Julian Kift wrote:
> Optima will also tell you that a battery discharged below the 60% level has a reduced life and full discharge is a real killer. Sulfation (irreversible coating of the plates) starts to occur at 75% charge level and 80% of battery failures are due to sulfation. The key here is not to let it get discharged in the first place. If you have any sort of parasitic drain then get a battery tender of some description.
>
> Julian
>
>> From: JDeRyke at aol.com
>> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:02:18 -0400
>> To: kenn_green at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Eastwood Battery Tender - 25% off through midnight tonight!
>>
>> Dunno on that particular charger, but quite a few 'smart' chargers simply
>> do not recognize AGM batteries when they get hooked on. I wrote a little tip
>> in your POCA Newsletter back in September taken from the Optima Tech site:
>>
>> 'To charge ANY deeply discharged Optima (and presumably other AGM
>> batteries), hook it along with a fully charged battery, to the charger in parallel.
>> Leave the two batteries on for 30 minutes (no longer than 60 minutes or you
>> risk destroying the charger), then disconnect the fully charged one. This
>> should lay enough surface charge onto the Optima to allow the charger to
>> realize there's a discharged battery hooked to it and charging will proceed
>> normally'.
>> Good luck- J DeRyke
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