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V50 III Dead Battery
- Thread starter MarkB
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Mi_ka
High Miler
Batteries are messy devices. If it has been old enough, it might just have self-eroded if its manufacturing quality was bad, in a period of years.
Then, products of the eroded material might have gone to the bottom of its case mildly short-circuiting cells and making it useless.
Note that this is just one of many other that can go wrong in these f@#$ ancient Volta cells.
Then, products of the eroded material might have gone to the bottom of its case mildly short-circuiting cells and making it useless.
Note that this is just one of many other that can go wrong in these f@#$ ancient Volta cells.
MarkB said:
Leaving it on a battery tender can ruin a battery unless you have the very expensive type of tender, and you can have problems with those. The "battery tender" brand doesn't not fall into the best category. As a battery ages, it can no longer reach the voltage a tender is looking for. As a result, the tender keeps pumping juice overheating and ruining the battery. When I'm not using a bike for an extended period, it only gets 24 hours on a "tender" once a month. A project here on Redstone Arsenal was killing batteries by keeping them on a tender. They then hooked up a thermistor to the batteries and the thermistor would trip the charger off. Once they did that, all was good, no more early failures of batteries.