[AT] Having battery problems--so how to fix?

[charlie hill]

Clean the terminals, charge them up to full charge and leave them 
disconnected.  If you have one of the newer chargers with the "recondition 
mode" let it run the recondition cycle on them.  I'm not sure I really 
believe it works but it seems to have helped some of my old batteries.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Wilkens" <jwilkens at eoni.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:55 PM
Subject: [AT] Having battery problems--so how to fix?


> Say you have 6 old tractors sitting outside through the winter and they 
> all have batteries in various conditions,   how's the best way to preserve 
> them for use the next season?   I've heard different things about this but 
> never paid much attention.    I assume you would take them out of the 
> tractors and:
> 1)  Put them on a wooden surface (heard that somewhere)?    2)  Charge 
> them up good and then leave them alone for say a month and then recharge 
> them?     3)  Keep them on a trickle charger all winter?    4)  Let them 
> drain off about 1/2 charge before recharging ?   5) Alternate between 
> trickle charging and regular battery charger charging?    6)  Or ????? 
> Another thing...I heard you could take an older weak battery and hook it 
> up to 40 or 60 amps for a short time to "rattle the plates" to revive 
> them.  Any truth in that?   (I tried it once on a shot battery and all it 
> did was heatup the battery and totally kill it).    Whatever.  Over the 
> years I've had pretty good luck with Cat batteries....both 6 and 12 volt. 
> John W.
>
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