Well all she’s gonna take is 2.31v I guess, this battery just taint gonna cut it. I guess it’s headed for the scrap yard next trip. This one was starting my Stovebolt just fine a few years ago and I just decided to put a new one in because of the age of the Interstate battery. I suppose sitting for a few years caused the dreaded sulfate disease to set in, what ever that is. Never did understand chemistry, probably should have taken a year of that instead of all those shop courses in HS.
585 CCA if that means anything Dan. Not sure if I understand your explanation but if your formula is correct then 12.675 hours should have brought it up to the top if it was gonna.
I’ve read articles which said completely draining the battery with a load then slow charging a few times will sometimes bring a battery back up to snuff. However I’ve never been able to talk my self into spending $150-$300 on a fancy commercial grade battery charger. Always seemed cheaper in the long run to just buy a new battery. The $79.95 Harbor Freight junk chargers I refuse to buy. I did get stung by them when bought one of their little over night chargers on sale for twenty five or thirty bucks a couple of years ago. The cover was made from old beer cans and fit so bad it popped off before I even got it out of the box, never could get it wrapped back around the tinny makeshift framework. Even in the high price range the slow (2A) charging rate on the ones I looked at is only for 12v. The 6v ranges start at 20A input.
Looked at FLAPS and they don’t seem to have the old style Hydrometers with the floating bulb. I can remember selling a lot of those bulbs when I was a parts man back in the day. Seems like the guys were always dropping them and breaking the bulbs in them and the antifreeze testers. You suppose with the sealed batteries now days there isn’t any way to use a hydrometer?
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
