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Re: Battery Desulphator

Postby Stuart30 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:19 pm

Kedishen wrote:was just making a recommendation because I tried it and was happy with results.

I am as much affiliated with seller ad triffic is with lidls.


Just curious...:grin:
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Re: Battery Desulphator

Postby Kedishen » Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:15 am

:) not surprised you came to that conclusion tbh :P
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Re: Battery Desulphator

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Re: Battery Desulphator

Postby Loafman » Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:33 pm

I often use my motorcycle maintenance charger (Oxford oximiser. No affiliation to Oxford BTW!), and it does an excellent job of recovering deeply discharged batteries. Can take a while though, up to several days to do a 110ah battery. But the results are great.

P.S. The unit is only rated to 30ah or something, but doesen't seem to phase it. :)
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Re: Battery Desulphator

Postby Kedishen » Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:23 pm

So at risk of setting off another discussion :)

Battery now sits at 13.3v when fully charged.
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Re: Battery Desulphator

Postby Kedishen » Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:11 am

brought my old battery back from the sh*t again :D Wish I had purchased one for each of my batteries :D
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Re: Battery Desulphator

Postby MK7 user » Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:21 pm

Good thread Kedishen....thanks for sharing. :D
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