

They might still be used after being revived. Over charging or over tasking these others can induce extreme heat and unstable elements.Do you have an old AGM battery? Don’t throw them away just yet. But more over each other utilizes memory characteristics due covalent or valence potentials. Each other type have unique concerns also. This information does not apply to Lithium, Nickel Hydride, Magnesium, Silver Oxide, or others. The charging sinusoidal waveform acting tickler voltage is not nearly as important, except to tighten lead outer valence electrons. Replace auto batteries every 32 months, they can last longer depending on usage, but keep in mind that today's expensive computer components do not like drops below the 2.3-2.7 threshold of component designs that can be affected. When starting your vehicle the battery should not load below 10.3 volts if below this you have a problem with size or age of the battery, or the starter motor. A good lead acid battery has an ambient voltage of 12.3 volts or more. While a larger wattage is required to charge the battery after or during use. A simple solar cell source of 14-15 volts and as little as 1 watt will maintain the battery in storage. By placing the battery in a non-conductive environment the positive charge will not be drained as easily. One could extend a lead acid battery life by placing a constant positive charge to supply electron bleed-off to the surrounding environment. Today lead acid batteries are based upon this paradigm, using individual cells that can shortout. Therein Sears would refund a 4 month credit on returns and yield themselves a continued profit on the 300% mark up. Many years ago Sears paid an engineer to build a lead acid battery that would fail at 32 months use, this was accomplished by calculating a build up of lead at the bottom of the case and shorting the remaining field. Charging a lead acid battery will not cause the lead to Re-Bond to the surface of the lead element. Charging a lead acid battery will stop the lead-acid re-action. Lead Acid batteries simply dissolve the lead and release a voltage. They should be able to confirm or clarify what Wikipedia said (sometimes Wikipedia needs confirmation), more able to point you in the right direction, or answer your original question (which I am going to bet is "if you're going to float charge anyway, it's a low power charge and does not matter whether it is pulsed or constant".) Since your answers are really in the realm of chemistry, if you want more information, I suggest that you ask further questions on the Chemistry stack exchange. You may need to pulse in a very specific way during your main charge to knock the sulfation off most effectively. Do google searches for this, because there's research (I saw it in passing, in searches to try to answer your question, but didn't read it - just know it's there, and probably very helpful). Also, don't forget to adjust your charge voltages for temperature - Arizona charging is probably different from Alaska charging.Īlso, during the main charge, you may want to pulse, because it supposedly knocks off the sulfation, also increasing battery life. A button to manually bring up the charge a few hours just before use might be nice. This will keep the battery ready for use whenever it is needed, which is the main purpose of the float charge, but it will cause much less corrosion, causing the battery of the customer to last much longer.
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You could implement a "Smart Float Charge" feature that will allow the customer to still just keep your charger plugged in, turned on, and battery attached, for their convenience and peace of mind but your charger wouldn't actually float charge, instead it would turn the charge completely off and wait the two weeks (as suggested in block quote #1 above), and then initiate a full charge. And there is corrosion on the deep-cycle batteries too, it just doesn't affect them as much because their plates are thicker. So, the answer to your question, "What is best for the life of the battery?" it seems, has a surprise answer - Don't Float Charge - because it reduces battery life. Prevention remains the best course of action, by periodically fully Peer-reviewed publications verifying their claims. Various techniques (such as pulse charging), but there are no "There are commercial products claiming to achieve desulfation through Starting batteries should therefore be kept open circuit butĬharged regularly (at least once every two weeks) to prevent

"Starting batteries kept on a continuous float charge will sufferĬorrosion of the electrodes which will also result in prematureįailure. From Wikipedia's Lead-Acid Battery page, here are two quotes:
