DIY: Opening a Car Battery and Repairing with Epsom Salts
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today i repaired this battery with 5 scoops of epsom salts in each cell.
and evidently shorting out the terminals helped the battery a lot. 
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I had a battery blow up in my face once, kid... battery acid burns like hell .Keep a bucket of baking soda water around where you can find it with your eyes burnt shut from battery acid.
Maybe you just didn't know any better at the time ....Any body that works with battery's should be aware...
I've boosted 1000s of dead batteries. Many times I was standing over them with no eye protection. Had one blow up 3' away and got really lucky. The whole top blew off and it sounded like the report of a 12ga shotgun. one little drop of acid on my arm. Learned my lesson that day
I used to heat batteries on teaspoon by putting battery in the gas bouler pulot light hole and hovering it high above the flame so I could continue playing my pacman. Mum and dad in bed sunday morning. No battery. Watch battery. Me like 8 years old. One day the battery did not recharge ling so i took it back to boiler. Second time i was walking up the stairs it exploded arms length away from my face.
Oops ha ha ha ha
I have spent months researching into fixing a car battery and discovered a fantastic website at Magic Mender Wizard (google it if you are interested)
Many times, you can drop a "dead" battery about 2 feet (your mileage will vary) onto a concrete floor (or other solid surface) that can often loosen the sulphation (sp?) that has built up on the plates. This combined with your methods can often produce even better results. Safety is on you. Just a trick I learned over the years.
How did you seal back the battery cover so it does not leak if you tilt it?
jb weld .. and dont tip it 😉
Here's what you do: Take your Epsom Salt, and create a mix that's 2-parts Epsom Salt for 1-part water. So, 2-cups of Epsom Salt for even 1-cup of water. Grab a 4-quart pot (with a handle), and mix the Epsom Salt with the water in the pot. Then, bring it to a slight boil while stirring it, so it disolves properly. This is why it took longer for your battery to achieve proper voltage...because, it had to mix itself IN THE BATTERY, which takes DAYS. Or, you can just mix it yourself in the pot, and it takes minutes. YOUR CHOICE!
PERSONALLY: I've been putting Epsom Salt in my cheap Walmart brand batteries for YEARS! Then, battery manufacturers found out people are adding Epsom Salt and making those cheap batteries last A LOT longer...so, they made it A LOT more difficult to open them up (which is why they're all sealed now). Those cheap Walmart batteries would usually last between a year or two. But, the one I added Epsom Salt to is on it's 6th year right now, and still going strong!
I do like your enthusiasm how ever.. After watching 2 of your videos I have to ask myself how you are alive or not in the hospital.. You are one of the most unsafe backyard experimenters I have came across yet..You are not Dangerous.. Just UNSAFE..
+Raven4122 well then since i havent gotten hurt from my experiments, maybe you need to rethink what is unsafe.
Raven4122
how could i do that if i dont have any strong battery acid?
hmm lets see in the one video you were dumping the acid into a bucket it slipped you did get splashed it did start to corrode the metal it splashed on,but as I said I dont really give 2 shits. your body, do as you want to..These are great videos of the wrong way to do stuff..
Raven4122
well my body isnt made of metal, you could say water is dangerous because it can corrode solid steel.
the battery electrolyte was very lightly acidic, it was very very weak.
Again Dont give a fuck, Great vidoes on how to do stuff the unsafe way..Have fun YOLO!
Have you ever tried arc welding with 12 - 48 volt batteries? Our trucks radiator support broke while on a mission in Vietnam. Time was not on our side and one of my soldiers suggested I let him use one of our spare batteries to try and weld the support back in place. By god it worked well enough to get us back to base camp. We had some 14 gauge wire we used to do the welding. In all we welded about ten inches before the battery lost most of its power but it did the job. Just a suggestion possibly for another video. We used a pair of 16 foot long jumper cables with 6 gauge copper wire inside them.
he does it in the future
Thanks for the service ,i will try to do aluminium reverse dc welding with jumper cables ,never thought of this method.
It's strange hearing your old voice, I love who you are today!
i live in Illinois, thats in the US. but unfortunatly its difficult to even get DryIce (Trockeneis) i have to make all my own chemicals.
i am trying to make chemicals for TinType film but am having a hard time synthesizing the salts. i'll figure it out though.
probaly shorting your charger didn't do the electronics inside the charger the best,maybe disconnect it beforre you start dead shorting the Pack
I hope it is not a fuel drum you are working on?
Thanks a lot, it definitely helped 1 of my deep cycle marine batteries! Will it work on a regular car battery too?
yes epsom salt is an alternative. it actually works pretty well. the middle cells where totally empty and only had epsom salt solution inside it. i made a video recently testing the differances between salt and epsom salt as electrolytes and epsom salt worked great. was even rechargable with zinc/copper mixture. the same chemistry but with sodium chloride wasn't rechargable.
Hey Rinoa, nice vid, I've always wondered if you can rejuvenate car batteries and have seen circuits of "battery decalcifiers". From what I could see; the circuit shorted out the battery with a MOSFET connected to a clock generator, 555 timer i think. So what your saying might be true, punishing the battery a little might restore it a little.
Reading some of the comments below, here's a rebuttal:
Also getting a battery like this to blow - for a start, he took the top off, therefore you made a vent for any gas build up, top went back on, but seal is now broken. People claiming the hydrogen given off and you sparking the battery, yeh ok, but there is not a huge amount of hydrogen given off in that small amount of time, plus it'd have to be in an enclosed area in order to get a decent explosion. These batteries are manufactured with a vent, designed to blow safely when overheated or have gas build-up
Causing the battery to destory itself by shorting it out, ok yes it will get hot, but he's not an idiot, to get it so hot to melt it into the ground - you'd have to short it for 10's minutes not seconds.
Getting sprayed with battery acid - ok battery acid is corrosive, but its not going to melt your skin off! it not like phosphoric acid! if it gets on you, find a tap and wash it off your skin. If you get it in your eye's mouth or other sensitive area, then yeh, it's gonna sting and medical consultation is advised where the eyes are concerned
Electrocution - no, just no, not enough voltage to punch through the insulation that is your skin.
"you shouldn't do that" - “It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." - oscar wilde
this is how we all should handle car batteries wearing no protection and flip flops then smack away at it with a lump hammer and chisel on top of a steal barrel where is could come off while smacking it with said lump hammer and then it falls on you toes breaking them all. way to go how not to bring a battery back to life.
I wonder if a full discharge and recharge would help. I've had a few batteries that sat for a long time that actually started charging after I shook them up. I figured there was stratification of the acid mixture that shaking seemed to cure. Still, I wonder if a full discharge and recharge would help? What if the battery was charged in reverse, then discharged and recharged again?
How long did the battery last? I have a dead/short cell. And thinking of trying epsom salt.
If you had ever exploded a battery you would be a bit more careful shorting it out or making sparks over the top of one that has just been charged.
+g0fvt i have, but it didnt explode too bad. just popped the top off and shot electrolyte everywhere. but its not so bad.
+Rinoa Super-Genius Trust me, you were lucky, I don't make a habit of it but the last one drenched me in acid and gave me a black eye. (Faulty drop tester, battery was under huge load but meter was not reading). We won't talk about the motorbike battery that I blew up in my parents house as a kid, that destroyed the carpet, wallpaper and left marks on the celing......
@@g0fvt People have a lot of faith in man made instruments!
This is illegal ...asaltin' battery
HA!!! AGREED!
your killin me hea
this is one of the coolest videos i have ever seen. the versatility of epsom salt is just so amazing.
coolest video? well there are definatly far cooler videos out there. like for instance anything from Tesla500 or Aussie50 or Photonvids or Vsauce or Periodic Videos or Numberphile or.....ok i'll stop.
Rinoa Super-Genius just stfu and accept the compliment you idiot.
David G
Lol your not going to change anybody's mind with a stupid attitude like that.
only stupid attitude is yours. He's trying to say you got a cool video idiot..
David G
and i'm telling him about even cooler videos, meanwhile your just calling me an idiot. so fuck off.
Hi
what is the model and reference of the charger please ?
Spark test with the charger still hooked up????
it was turned off
charger was probably left on lmao
victordiaz106 no it doesnt read real time voltage when it is on
charger output is dc, you can normally short any charger with no problems
Jeff Foxworthy would be proud.
What's that thing called that you used to charge the batteries? Because I have three rechargeable batteries and I want to recharge them.
a battery charger
this battery still has a high rate of discharge, like if i set it overnight it drops to 9v. ima build a desulfator and experiment with it. maybe the desulfator will remove some of the sulfate still on the plates. thus making it hold its charge longer
got another battery yesterday and will use only a desulfator on it, it reads at 2v and has no electrolyte in the cells in the cells. maybe i'll try your idea of mixing the salt beforehand. i'll get a metal bucket and heat the water up to 90c
Just so you know a good way to blow up a battery is to do exactly whats shown in this video.
no ts quite difficult to blow them up in a well ventilated area unless the battery is shorted out.
Sparking the connections together is NOT shorting it out ?
benshivd i mean internally. an internal short can lead to a spark. i've had a battery blow up from that before.
benshivd batterys cant blow up because for an explosion you need fire and the water in the battery will put it out
Liam Campbell
no they can explode, its more of a big pop though. i had one explode in my homemade electric lawn tractor and it was kinda funny how it popped the top off, i wish i'd been recording at that time. :P
First minute looks totally like a repair. LOL. Crude but great result!
haha thanks :D
You are a super cute girl, give me your number!!
How do you remove the sulfide/sulfate from the plates....what chems do i need....not wanting to spend money on a fancy charger...
I have a question Riona, have you tried Alum for restoring batteries? I had this question in my mind for a while. I'm thinking if alum works also, then I could add alum to the car batteries that I have. :)
enjoy your eye sight while it last
haha prolly, good thing this battery's waranty expired when i was 8.
and to answer the comment you deleted, the reason the cap didnt break was because it was a seperate piece glued/melted onto the top of the cells. i just cracked it at the seam where the top was bonded to the bottom.
then again the cap did have several cracks and holes in it after i chisseled it, but i dont care because this battery is going to be stationary to power my shed's power system when i build it, gonna have LEDs :p
your talking about the two brown ceramic ones right? (i have like 100 insulators of almost every type i've ever seen) those two where made in the 1950s and i would presume made in the states. just FYI insulator designs do usually stay the same between countries.
what battery charger are you using?
AvE
jimbarbwe 1985, hi everyone ,if anyone else needs to find out about battery fix try Cypouris Renewal Guide Coach (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my mate got great results with it.
Some day this guy will win a Darwin award.
how long did it stay charged after you took the charger off of it
are all AC Delco the same? I mean the top. Having trouble opening mine up too. Afraid it defeats the purpose of the battery being that aggressive
Repairing a battery with opened-toes shoes... very smart...!
I smell a low I.Q. in a lot, and I mean "A LOT", of the comments.
Thanks for the demo Rinoa Super-Genius.
I have a question: Would you say that there is a relationship between the amount of Epsom Salt and the % of voltage recovered by the battery?
Thanks.
the epsom salt basicly lowers the internal resistance of the battery, kinda like adding more acid. it would raise the voltage up to a certain point.
I enjoy finding videos to show how NOT to do things
How long did it last after quick fix?
I dont know how y made that spark test beside fuel dispenser ????
Volts don't mean shit in car batteries you can have a perfect 12 volts and 0 amps and the battery is useless.
I've watched a few of Riona's video's, so I'm pretty damn sure they know this already.
BuRgLaR187 it's like how people whatchamacallit bhp perform and never consider torque
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Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else wants to discover restoring a battery try Battery Recovery Tactics ( battery.RecoveryTactics.com ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my co-worker got amazing results with it.
I've been studying fixing a car battery and found an awesome website at rapid renew roadmap (search gogle)
don't do it sparky.......big boom.
How do you reseal it though?
Great video. Would it be better if you dissolved the Epsom Salts in hot water and then poured it in? Just a thought. Never done it myself. Loved the sparks.
Reading Idiotic people posting Idiotic comments is just so hilarious, also thanks for the upload.
thanks! and yeah its funny.
oh how the turns have tabled
The 4th stooge has been found. Curlys little brother.
It would actually be the 5th. They already had 4 stooges. But calling this complete moron a stooge at all would be an upgrade. He is dumber than all 4 stooges.
Hello....Please can anyone tell me, how long will this battery repair last,? a week, a month, maybe a year ? ....thank you...Johnny B.
Using a decent battery, I've actually welded using standard welding sticks. At that time I had a small electrode holder that had a solenoid in the head that pulled the stick back on contact with the materials to aid in keeping the correct electrode gap. You can still do it with a pair of jumper cables, but watch out for overheating the leads as some are too thin to weld for long and can melt the plastic insulation!
There are just to many things wrong with this video.
so?
Not long after this video was realesed this man was found dead pony tail side up
that makes no sense, im still alive so "not long after" must mean "several years latter"
+Rinoa Super-Genius its spelt *later, who the fuck opens a battery
Matthew Moodley
yes and its alternate spelling is Latter. and i open a battery, didnt ya watch the damn video? :p
+Rinoa Super-Genius I've also seen a lot of meth heads open lithium batteries...this looks like more fun though
Yeah I watched the video and big whoop you fixed. Battery
I saw that same reaction too cranking apps came up It seems like the more I aren't the back-and-forth while running the pump. They would speed it up and slow it down and then slow it down and then sometimes it was just slowly coming backup as the battery got dead but I. Did see increasing cranking apps afterwards basically that was low testing it at low voltage on the battery
whats an Akku? sounds cool.
The reason the batt took a charge after you shorted it out is because (an old trick) the reverse polarity knocked oxidation off the lead plates.
When a car batt is dead or very close to, the lead plates will oxidize. Killing its ability to charge. Old batts that have been sitting for years will have oxidized plates. The old shop trick I learned growing up in the shop, was to reverse polarity from a charger or another batt and to shock the dead batt for a few seconds at a time so you don't damage it.
You need to be careful on the battery though, some batts have circuitry in them that can be damaged. At one time you could take batts apart and fix them. Sealing them up ended that practice.
So when you shorted that wire, you were in effect doing the same thing, knocking oxide off the lead plates. Clean lead plates = batt that holds a charge.
Ps. You need to be VERY careful around these batts, they are dangerous and will explode, Ive seen it happen twice and it is a powerful explosion. Sparking batts or making fire or doing what you were doing could have led to an explosion. Be much safer in the future, your eyes will thank you later.
no its not oxide its sulfate....
Ive spent 30 plus years in the shop. Trained by both old school mechanics and trained in college as well. Terms arent always perfect in automotive. The old school mechanics will say oxide and for the most part the sulfated objects are in fact oxidized. So oxidized is a correct term. The sulfation on batteries are sulfide oxides.. Charging - 2PbSO4 + 2H20 → Pb + PbO2 + 2H2SO4 Discharging Pb + PbO2 + 2H2SO4 → 2PbSO4 + 2H20
So as I said, doing that will strip oxide off the plates. Depending on what killed the battery, that will work most times.
Opie Jr, Potter can you point me to any scientific studies to back up your claim? pretty much everybody seems to have a differant opinion on batteries.
What do you mean back up my claim? Call any decent auto tech school and ask for their instructor, they are master ASE certified and dealer trained as well. It is a standard protocol. You should use distilled water since it lacks the high mineral content present in tap water. Barbados' tap water contains high amounts of lime. The lime settles in the battery compartment causing the development of a lime cell within the battery and inhibits the proper operation of the lead acid cell.
I guess its kind of pointless to teach a kid who knows it all already. Ive seen some of your replies to others and they are very rude. I have 30 years shop exp, I am a mechanic by trade and Ive gone to college as well, does that mean anything to you? Smart ass.
The factory and any decent shop in town will always use distilled water over tap water. Gwet a fucking clue smart alec smart mouthed punk! Ive had enough of your big fat mouth!
Opie Jr, Potter
yes but from what experiments do they get their information from? i hope its not just "the old mechanics said so it must be true"
yes that doesnt mean much to me because you didnt go for chemistry, sure if i had a question about an engine i would value your opinion. this is a chemistry question not an automotive question. nevermind the fact that colleges turn out a lot of people who dont know much. so you end up with a lot of ignorant people who think they know everything just because they went to college. i would even say you seem like that.
i would assume you think if i need information about what compounds are in a lithim ion cell i should ask somebody who works at a cellphone store? just because they work with lithium ion cells a lot doesnt mean they know them through and through. just like you can work in a auto shop for 50 years replacing batteries without having to know how they work on the molecular level.
so far your only proof for backing up your claims are
1: old mechanics said so
2: i went to college
3: i know cars, and cars use batteries, and batteries use chemistry so that must mean i know chemistry very well.
yet your chemistry explanations are very flawed. just because a molecule has oxygen in it doesnt make it an oxide.
there's just some things you shouldn't ever mess with. this is one of them.
I see thanks for that. Whats your next step with this project?
would sodium sulfate be better?, im not a scientist, but i did work at a job that installed sodium sulfate in batteries during assembly.
"In the end it's better to short circuit your battery...." Clearly you've never ever had one of these explode in your face. Short circuits are horrible for batteries and end up killing them. Short circuit some wires in your house or your car and let me know how that works out if you're still alive. Aside from that, the battery will create hydrogen gas which will ignite given the chance. You doing your spark tests is basically asking that battery to blow up right next to you and shower you in acid. They're called lead ACID for a reason. A battery as old as you claim should not be brought back to life. It will only fail time and time again with the 'methods' you showcase.
I'd also like to point out the complete lack of any safety equipment or regards to safety in any form while dealing with a lead ACID battery. Again, ACID! Wearing shorts, a t shirt, flipflops and glasses with no gloves, boots, aprons, or face shield while short circuiting, tampering, or opening a battery is an absolutely *horrible* idea!
Absolutely not one thing in this video should ever be replicated. I couldn't help but cringe while you smacked away at a battery with a large chisel and hammer on an unstable barrel; just waiting for that to fall over and dump out ACID everywhere and possibly all over you too. Another terrible idea, right there.
Let's pretend for a minute that you did have some sort of safety equipment and weren't completely reckless in opening this lead acid battery. What good on earth would this be? That battery is so screwed up inside from the years of neglect that it isn't even worth saving. Even a battery that wasn't so old but still couldn't deliver the current would produce similar results. Just because it reads 12 volts doesn't mean it has the current held inside to actually do anything of use. And not to mention, now that you've opened it up; think about what will happen if that battery falls over. Guess what? That lid will pop right the hell off and pour the acid all over the damn place.
One of these days, messing with batteries like this will bite you in the ass when one explodes all over you. Recycle the damn thing instead of whatever you'd call this. Hopefully you won't learn the hard way.
Nice comment, gonna save it has me laughing to good.
Don't believe me? Give it a try and see how it works out, that is, if you're still alive once you're done.
+Bryan Young "" no I know your right it's like 2+2=4 it's just to funny how most ppl think. if intellectual ppl got together just think what could be possible without gov shutdown or denial we'd be real life Rick and morty by now .
kody gordan
My apologies. I thought for a moment you had the same mentality as the uploader. And yeah, I agree. Somewhere along the line we got 'dumbed' down severely.
+Bryan Young It seems like you don't really understand what is going inside one of these batteries. Shorting a lead-acid battery is not the end of the world, the internal resistance of this type of battery chemistry acts as a current limiting resistor, which make them inherently safer. Also older batteries shouldn't be brought back to life as you say not because of safety really but because the dissimilar metals have started to corrode, further raising the internal resistance, and further limiting the amount of power the battery can output.
If you shorted the wires to your house all you have for resistance is the wires, which in electronics, is considered a perfect conductor (even though it's not really), you'll pull infinite current at zero Ohms tripping your circuit breaker, or if you're unlucky, burning a wire inside your wall.
Lithium ion batteries are a different story, their internal resistance is much lower and can provide enough current to boil the electrolyte inside and cause an explosion during short circuit.
At any rate don't fuck with batteries unless you know what you're doing
putting anything in your batteries except distilled water is a bad idea
agreed!
ghettohillbilly1
Except for a good wash with distilled water and soda and filled back in with distilled water and alum,You now have an alkaline battery. You won't get the rated CCA neather Ah's but you can run them totally flat and have lot's of usable power... Try it!!!! for 3 dollars not worth the go?
ghettohillbilly1 i dumped mine, and filled with pure sulfuric acid. almost had a melt down. dont do it.
Dixon Cider scary
+Dixon Cider they are only supposed to have 10% acid or less
can i use simple kind of salt
hehe same here.
but your question was good because i didnt actually put the cap back on, it just kinda layed it on it. when i carrey it around the battery sloshes around a lot and spills a bit.
you forgot to add the pepper. if you want a hot battery, add habanero peppers and it'll crank at a million amps
And some jalapeños
dont forget the stickers, they add infinite power
yummy i'm going to go eat my battery hmmmm
So up in Canada during wintertime, I can ditch my 120vac battery blanket IF I drop some habaneros inside. PLUS- a million amps. (CCA I guess?) very nice, now how do I cool off the battery in the middle of a scorching heatwave? Dig those habaneros out and just replace with bell peppers?
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don't these things explode? It's probably a small chance but why even show this without a disclaimer?
because i'm not liable for idiots hurting themselves. also its not all that dangerous if you have common sense.
Rinoa Super-Genius You are using a battery as an arc-welder in the end, of course you're not liable but you're kinda going against all common sense that I can muster
VanillaSnake21
depends on how much you understand batteries.
Rinoa Super-Genius
Common sense would be not making sparks on top of something that's venting explosive gas. (speaking of understanding batteries,you do realize that they vent hydrogen gas while charging,right?)
Go search for some 'exploding battery aftermath' videos. Hot acid flies EVERYWHERE. Think about what would happen,if a battery were to explode next to you. Dude -It's no joke. Don't press your luck. Get some longer jumper leads,and DO NOT arc directly on the battery terminals,or in it's vicinity.
Or,carry on as you were..and enjoy the skin grafts.
PrepperWorkShop No. But what does that have to do with anything,genius?
Go play with a battery.
Fascinating stuff. Looking forward to seeing the results. many thanks for sharing.
How does that acid feel when drops on your toes?
+DEE K Feels like nothing. I freak friends out all the time when I pour fresh sulfuric acid right in my hand. Unless you're sensitive to the acid, it just stinks. It does not burn or anything else.
This is a fucking joke right? Please, everyone, don't try this...
I tried it on 3 of my battries and i was able to fix two of them!
MIKAEL'S LAB
tried it on an old dead UPS battery I had.
previously it was reading 0v.
put some epson salt in it, and charged the crap out of it, and got 6v (though less than 12v) and enough power to run a small motor (though dunno if it will retain a charge).
also, earlier, made a small cell out of aluminum foil and toilet paper (to test a theory), put epson salt and water on it, and charged it up. sort of worked, got 0.8v, but then failed later. the anode plate and wire (copper) had essentially dissolved.
the cathode side had a dull grey soft metallic buildup (which had partly assimilated the toilet-paper), and parts near where the anode wire had been had a green crystal-like buildup. the cathode wire also had considerable crystal-like build-up.
Brendan Bohannon
partial: correction; in battery terms cathode and anode are mixed up here.
in the above, cathode was where I was putting the negative side of the charging voltage (and... cathode normally means negative...), whereas in battery terms this would be the anode (and the positive/cathode side was the one which dissolved).
also, after it dried, it could be seen that the buildup is a white crust (with a slight greenish tint in areas near where the wire was).
meh...
Devils I work with batteries everyday. It's 100% part of my job
IBegToDiffer200
Congratulations, it means nothing.
I don't like your work bench, it's loud.
i like it. it only cost 10$ and its lasted 5 years so far. not counting the side art is cool. it originally held grape juice from Patagonia. :D
oh, the Persian Lord ... welll, put your potato chips and beer aside, and pay attention ... or go back to couch-surfing for sounds that please you . .. :)
Walter Tonetto lmfao hahahahahahahahahahah
How did you seal the battery back
i didnt.
I am guessing that an equalization charge would have worked even better than short-circuting the battery. It probably mixed the electrolyte a bit better?
My career is a battery controller technician I have experience in the field
Causes of damage with the possibility of reform
Instead of epsom salt, on your next battery try 1 - 2 tablespoon of baking soda, fill with water then slow/trickle charge it overnight. I've done that many times. It has seemed to work pretty well. Just a word of caution, when working with batteries, wear shoes that'll protect your feet better. Also, don't spark the + & - so hard, it can fuse the two together & blow up. Have fun.
Lol
Are you a guy or a girl?
Cool stuff, I’ve seen another video of a guy from India that refurbishes all batteries and it was really interesting.
You may be considered a farm geek, but brother, you would be a good man to have around. Very nice video.
+Mark Vann Take care of yourself, you are a very useful person. We need more like you.
Volts are not amps. Figure it out.
volts divided by ohms is amps, so yes volts determine amps
+DMAN22yeah
Actually, volts is a measurement of difference in potential based on available current flow and the resistance of the conductor. So it is probably better to say amps determines volts. Regardless, that kid is lucky that something bad didn't happen and he did show methods, however poorly executed, to get a battery working again. Still, please NO ONE use this as an educational video.
+noyb72 👍
+DeathProof Jonny Lol... nice bite you got there! Noyb72 = electrical guru
600,000 viewers now know that you do not know anything about lead acid batteries and disappointed you did not hurt yourself. Please educate yourself before teaching others your ignorance.
+technogeekworld and yet i got payed for that because this video has ads on it.
Mike Spears
nah education is a waste when you already have a career. these videos led to me getting a job in silicon valley.
+Rinoa Super-Genius lol sure buddy
+Rinoa Super-Genius Wait, not to be a super douche. But WTF do car batteries have to do with Silicon valley? I mean, lead acid batteries aren't exactly state of the are silicon chips or software. lol
Eric Nielsen
well i dont do just lead acid batteries, thats just a few videos on my channel. :P
amigo que polvo usas bicarbonato sal o algun otro tipo de polvos vivo en vzla amigo
Dit moi le nom du produit svp
wot about charging with a welder?
de unde pot sa cumpar sare epson?
What would you have done if there was acid in that battery, just a simple question.
prolly just put less water in to fill it. even if it had acid it would have been neutralized from sitting. not counting battery acid is 90-95% water anyway.
do you trying making hho？
Seems a little radical, and perhaps a bit dangerous.. but I like it, thanks. the real question is how long did it hold the charge ??
Does this void the warranty ?
of course
will it work in a car now
How much Epson salt do u put in a cell?
You prolly don't need a whole lot. I think it really depends on how bad your battery is. The Epsom salt is raising the reactivity of your battery electrolyte. I say add some and test it and keep adding a little bit until you don't,t notice any improvements.
oohhhh the many wonders of epsom salt.. From wellness to car repairs, this ingredient is very versatile indeed.
yeah and it seems to work in other battery chemistries as well. like i took the zinc/copper battery i'd made when i was 9 or so and instead of puting salt water i put epsom salt in and it was rechargible! i did a video of that but it was pretty boring.
yeah geiger counters are fun to make, i hate getting shocked by 600v though haha
someday i will make some geissler tubes. ima fill one with Argon to make it glow purple. i already have a 5000v transformer to power it too.
Good job! Keep up the experiments!
Since it was a totally flat battery, it was a good example to do your tests on. I'd never have tried shorting the terminals, but you could be correct, in that it would certainly move electrons. Nice work. The biggest risk I saw was shorting leads while so close to the battery while it was being charged. During charging, a flooded battery expels hydrogen, and can explode. No, it won't go off like a grenade, but it will spray sulfuric acid around. Not only can it burn your skin, but will do eye damage very quickly. Wear a shield, and keep baking soda close. Thanks for the vid.
yeah but this battery didn't have any sulfuric acid in it and i was outside with plenty of ventilation.
***** if a battery is dry that could prolly be from overcharging. when a battery is overcharged (like by a bad voltage regulator from the alternator) it turns the acid and water into hydrogen sulfide so in that case the acid would be lost.
not counting acid just goes away after years of service. the sulfuric acid molecules get stuck bonded to other things (like in the form of sulfation)
but epsom salt in water can do the same as acid. epsom salt will increse the reactivity of the electrolyte and allow the electrolyte to interact with the lead plates.
shorting the battery drawing high current stresses the cells causing the plates to expand making the salvation on the plates break away make the capacity of the battery greater
Hi I have a ups which uses a 175amp flooded battery so what happens is that there was a power cut off and my ups was running it didn't last an hour so I checked the battery and found out that two of it cells had low acid or water level don't know what to call it right its not completely dried out u can see the tip of lead plate wet so i wanted to know if it has died or will it still make it by adding distalled water coz I don't have it right now I will get it tomorrow thanks
yes adding water should help it a lot. its good to play it safe with distilled water but i've only used tap water in my batteries for the past 2-3 years and that is working fine. so tap water can work in a pinch.
Rinoa Super-Genius Tap water contains neutralizers that will kill batt acid. Esp calcium. Always use the best water you can get for your batt.
Opie Jr, Potter
modern batteries actually have calcium inside the plates to help stop electrolysis of the water. i've used tap water for years with no bad effect.
I know they do. But for a specific purpose. Tap water will do just as I said. I have 30 plus years shop exp plus an AA in auto tech. Ive seen it happen many times.
Opie Jr, Potter seen what happen? calcium kill a battery?
i'm sorry but having 30 years automotive experiance and an AA (whatever that is) doesnt make you a knowledgeable chemist. it means you understand automobiles.
unfortunatly this battery had cracks in the bottom. sometimes batteries are just too far gone. but if it didnt have a broken case you could prolly use it in a car for a bit. would prolly really help it if it was being used a lot.
but this particular battery was so far gone that i'd try epsom salts and desulfating it. i mean it was buried in mud for 10 years so cant expect much..
i think the plates are salvageable, maybe i should take them out and build a new battery. would be a fun project.
Hello
there are already machines to regenerate the batteries
oh FYI i have gotten epsom salt to work though. like i put epsom salt into a little 6v SLA i found and it holds a charge for several months.
i wasn't trying to sound like this video's process didn't work at all, just the ACDelco battery i used was too far gone ^^;
So shorting the battery has the same effect(and apparently safer for the battery) as the welder trick.
Good to know.
That drum underneath the battery ... it is empty and dry, yes?
yes
your welcome
and i can only get very small amount of uranium and radium. Uranium was used as yellow pigment in old ceramic bowls and stuff. and radium was used to make clock hands glow so you could see the time in the dark.
i've found several bowls from the 1880's that make a geiger counter tick a lot :D
Hey, my co-worker dropped our new battery and cracked the case. I found out you can fix the case by melting with a soldering iron, just melt and area and blend it. You could fix the top that way.
This fellow has a guardian angel that works overtime.
+Bruce Weaver plot twist, angels dont exist. lol
Are you using tap water ?
yeah, you can use distilled water but i havent had any issues with tap water yet.
Would it be able to start a car?
idk, this ones a bit too far gone. but its fun for tinkering with.