Battery Info

[airbiscuit]

It's amazing that the vacuum tubes are still working!

 

[not2old]

I had a VW bug for a short time and got real good at solo push starting and jumping in when I couldn't find a strategic incline to park...
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I did the same thing with a Volvo 544 until I could afford a new battery.

 

[airbiscuit]

We sometimes had to pull a tractor with the pickup solo to start it, and then quickly run back to the tractor to stop it before it hit the truck.

 

[mrblanche]

I have had extremely good luck with batteries over the years. I have had many cars that I bought new and never had to buy a battery for. Our Ford Fusion broke that streak, however. It has that start/stop feature. Researchers say that that makes the car do an average of 5,000 starts per year, instead of the 500 starts per year on most cars. It only lasted a little over 3 years, and it IS an AGM battery, almost $400 worth.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Recently bought a used Durango with that stop/start nonsense.

Disconnected the puny and expensive battery for that system, then pulled a fuse. No more pushing a button every time to prevent the stop/start crap.

 

[airbiscuit]

Some battery chargers have a desulfation mode. Here is an interesting article about it.

Manufacturers of battery desulfators claim that through controlled bursts of high voltage, their products can reverse even the most severe cases of sulfating, restoring battery performance to like-new condition.

To test their claims, we rounded up two popular battery desulfatorsVDC Electronics’ Battery Minder and the Xtreme Charge by Pulsetechand two seemingly dead test subject batteries: A run-of-the-mill Autolite 84, and a lightweight dry-cell Buddy Club Racing Spec Battery.

https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/impp-1105-battery-desulfators-fact-fiction/

 

[grsthegreat]

I have had extremely good luck with batteries over the years. I have had many cars that I bought new and never had to buy a battery for. Our Ford Fusion broke that streak, however. It has that start/stop feature. Researchers say that that makes the car do an average of 5,000 starts per year, instead of the 500 starts per year on most cars. It only lasted a little over 3 years, and it IS an AGM battery, almost $400 worth.

I deleted that on my f150

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Manufacturers of battery desulfators claim that through controlled bursts of high voltage, their products can reverse even the most severe cases of sulfating, restoring battery performance to like-new condition.

I wouldn't consider 14.8 volts a "burst of high voltage".

Not when I frequently see higher voltages in stock vehicles when they're just charging from the alternator.

 

[airbiscuit]

I think it's more the (pulse) charge, rinse, repeat,,,,

 

[Oaktree]

Recently bought a used Durango with that stop/start nonsense.

Disconnected the puny and expensive battery for that system, then pulled a fuse. No more pushing a button every time to prevent the stop/start crap.

My '19 Acadia has/had that start/stop, no separate battery, just the regular one. No defeat button in mine, but was able to find a gadget that goes in line with one of the battery cables that permanently defeats it. Apparently it tricks the car into thinking the battery is weak.