{"id":3875,"date":"2019-01-09T06:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T06:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notsealed.com\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2023-07-24T04:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T04:13:51","slug":"how-to-desulfate-a-battery-with-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notsealed.com\/how-to-desulfate-a-battery-with-charger.html","title":{"rendered":"How to DeSulfate a car battery with a charger and bring it back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Car batteries typically only last 3-5 years. Sometimes shorter is they are in 4×4 vehicles getting jolted around on dirt tracks. Like all important pieces of equipment, batteries must be maintained to keep them in top working order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For myself, I like to place each of my car and boat batteries on charge every 3 months to give them a top-up charge to 100%. This is the first step to getting extra like out of your vehicle battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over time if the electrical charge in the battery falls below 10.5V your battery will start to fail due to a process called sulfation. This is the process of sulfate crystals growing on the lead electrode plates. Over time decrease the amount of charge or voltage that these plates can hold. A low electrolyte water level will also cause sulfation to happen rapidly with the exposure to air on the lead plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a prolonged charge deprivation, the amorphous lead sulfate will convert to a stable sulfate crystal and deposit on the negative lead plates. These crystals will grow over time and removal will be very difficult. That’s why as soon as your car battery is low of voltage charge top it up immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n