Mini-D the Battery Desulfator

Battery desulfation is easy. It can save you hundreds of dollars and help keep batteries out of the waste stream. Mikey Sklar explains how to connect a desulfator and learn more about the health of a lead acid battery.

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• battery
• desulfator
• desulfation
• desulphator
• pulse
• microcontroller
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• electronics

[Trekkersfarm]

In die eerste plek praat jy n klomp kak jou idioot ...

[RDELAPLAZA]

@cobrachoppergirl ... Yes it will do that if you connect it in reverse, ie: positive to negative and negative to positive, it will actually instantly blow or short circuit the rectifier diodes, or if you use a wall wart the delivers AC voltage... solution..

Get a... VOLTMETER ! ! and use it to identify terminals polarity and how much voltage the ww is delivering etc

[spleichenstein]

you took them off correctly but you put them on wrong. You always connect the (+) positive lead first.

[cobrachoppergirl]

Yeah, this wall wart as float charger is BS advice, every time I try to connect a wall wart up to a battery, and I've been through several, it creates a short circuit immediatly, and the wire starts to heat up and cook. You can feel it with your finger pressing the leads to the battery terminals, they heat up like a stove element. Fast way to drain your battery to zero, melt some wires or start a fire, or explosion if wall wart is plugged into the wall.

[cobrachoppergirl]

Not only that, when I try 12v dc wall warts, I immediately start to hear the batteries boil off and bubble, which they should not be doing because I'm well under 14.4v. I don't think you can use these Wall Warts at all as trickle chargers, maybe if they had an inline diode in the circuit, if someone knows something different let me know.

[cobrachoppergirl]

1:15 On the strength of this video, I tried to use a 12vd 500ma Wall Wart to supply to supply the curren, + to +, - to -, t and all I got were SPARKS, and SMOKING WIRES. The battery desulfator I bought works fine, I just can't figure out how to get !@#$%^ a float voltage current into the battery, because WALL WARTS DO NOT WORK. All they are are transformers, and by connecting one half of the coil to them this way, you create a short circuit. Good job guy, you are trying to get me killed.

[PigsCanFly99]

no preference here in connecting leads .. you're still running the potential for sparking at either post and during connect or disconnect. Solution is to have a switch that completes (and interrupts) the circuit remotely. Never good to spark at the terminals. That's not trickle-charge by the way .. and if you're battery is low .. it's going to draw way more current than the wall wart can supply re: heat up and melt wall wart.

[28bull]

I have seen the after effects of a battery explosion !

Know that video compromises are made with mock ups.

Open caps-current !!!!!

I do not want my 'nads scattered in 3 states.

Just a nad saver from 28 bull

[sirmasterpimp]

I should have bought one of these before I took my battery to autozone to get reconditioned and charged (I have a desulfator now). Autozone totally wrecked my battery, I got it back in two plastic bags because it was leaking acid (wasn't before they touched it). I think they just overfilled it, so I will have to try to hook my desulfator to it and see if it helps. I have also heard of crushing up an aspirin and adding it to each cell to get rid of sulfation. I might try that too.

[electrician725]

ONE THING YOU DID WRONG (for a negative ground car system at least) Positive is FIRST ON, LAST OFF because if you reverse the order, you run the risk of shorting out the wrenches as you work! On Solar systems this may not be an issue... It is GOOD to have a consistent procedure!

Nice video, looks like a good product! I have built those pulse chargers alot cheaper but takes a separate battery...

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Rob