Man the negative comments kill me, some of u guys are saying just go buy another $200 battery and be done with it…has it not occurred to u all that even though $200 isn’t much money relatively speaking, the vast majority of people live paycheck to paycheck in this world. It’s not feasible for them to shell that money out most weeks when there are more important things to buy just to survive, especially in todays economy. Just like my grandmother used to say, “If u don’t have anything nice to say, then……….(u know the rest)”.
@PRSH8YAPROJECTS Жыл бұрын
Truth teller here!!!
@commonsenseisdeadin2024 Жыл бұрын
It is a throw away society and it's pathetic! Why buy a new one even if you are a millionaire, if you have the means period!
@commonsenseisdeadin2024 Жыл бұрын
@@PRSH8YAPROJECTS So what was/is the status of the battery now that it has been over a year?
@e.3-0_m310 ай бұрын
Ya for sure it's a weird world we live in all these gen z's don't understand fix things anymore just throw money away
@kiwiskunk4438 ай бұрын
Yo bro just dont give a fuck this people just need everything done fast and easy lazzy slaves just wann consumm more shit and in the way throween the earth to the been with a fake smile on the way keep recikling until is no possible anymore.. stay safe and classic
@vincemajestyk949711 ай бұрын
It is possible to desulphate an AGM but this is a little aggressive. You have to be real careful about not overheating it because there isn't much electrolyte like a flooded battery but need to get enough current to break up the crust so it can be converted back into the electrolyte solution. Also, you should really wait 24 hours before doing a load test for the surface charge to dissipate. The longer the better. I had 2 batteries I recovered that both rested at 12.99-13.0v after 2 days. One was a completely flat, I mean FLAT 0V floated lead acid battery. It was only that way about 3 or 4 days though. The longer you leave a battery completely discharged the less chance it can come back.
@MarkAAshdown8 ай бұрын
Can I suggest that you should start by opening the battery up. You will probably find that the glass mats will be low on electrolyte. Top them up and then start your experiments.
@howiehowdy9 ай бұрын
Even the sealed agm batteries have caps, add some distilled water with a syringe 💉 just a dab'll do ya.
@jtnoodle4 ай бұрын
should really let it absorb and rest for awhile before load testing
@BigFarm_ah365 Жыл бұрын
Sweet, glad you tried this, I revived a lead acid, but didin't try the AGM and wasn't planning to. Not with the welder anyway. I have a thermal camera and had one cell that took forever to come up, it was staying cool on the lower 2/3, but got it eventually. Glad I found this.
@HDXFH2 жыл бұрын
AGMs tend to go dry, they can be opened up and rewet which fixes them, al long as they werent cooked dry
@phillemoncornelius1058 Жыл бұрын
My agm is dry inside,how do i fix this? Thanks in advance
@Wrenchmonkey1Ай бұрын
@@phillemoncornelius1058 Dribble some distilled water into each cell with a syringe until the mat is fully wetted out. Only do a little at a time (maybe 5ml, or so) and attempt to charge each time. If the mat dries out during the charge, add a little more. You don't want to flood the cell. Just re-wet the mat. Make sure you use distilled water, as well. Don't use mineral water, or tap water, as the minerals in the water will ruin the cells.
@allenpardon8211 Жыл бұрын
If you can revive the agm battery, it will continue to give good service but you have to repeat the cycle yearly
@user-yo1pk4ky4k3 ай бұрын
Can I recommend a white cane for anyone who removes the charger leads while the charger is running? You could spark off an explosion of hydrogen gas, blow the top off the battery, and end up with acid in your eyes. Similar hazard having the load charger leaning against the battery while testing.
@ccfmfg Жыл бұрын
Thank You, Excellent video. But Please put some Non-Corrosive Type Battery Terminals with Sealed,Soldered and Clean Wire connections on Your Car. Heat Shrink Tubing works great. All the resistance from that corrosion creeping up Your Battery Wires and on the terminals has got to be hurting Your Battery Charging Efficiency.
@renegade6372 жыл бұрын
I have a desulfator myself. I managed to recently recover an open-cell, lead-acid car battery. It was down to 10v. After 4 weeks of desulfation (although, I think the cells were properly desulfated sometime between week 3 and 4), I was able to charge the battery up to 13.1v. So, the fact that you were able to improve the AGM using the welder technique gives promise to the idea that using a desulfator will work just as well. Update: After I took the battery back out into 90 degree temperature, it dropped back down to 8v. So, I think the battery was too far gone from being in Texas temperature for 6 years.
@josemedeiros0078 ай бұрын
What type of desulfator do you have? I have a Pulse Tech PowerPulse the company is in Texas.
@renegade6378 ай бұрын
@@josemedeiros007 It's a Vector Smart Battery Charger. Although, I think it's generic because I found the exact item with the Black & Decker name on it.
@sashasoule45856 ай бұрын
Sometimes sediment builds up on the bottom of cells shorting them. Try dumping the acid and washing the sediment, and adding new acid or old acid back in.
@jrm1632 жыл бұрын
Man, this is done perfectly as an experiment! This is the first video I ever watched the trick on an AGM (or SLA) battery! The video itself is compact! And the experiment steps make sense (IMHO, as I advised you before). One comment is, since we can’t top/refill AGM or SLA batteries, this trick “might” make some electrolyte gas go out, depending on how long you “cook” or “fry” it, which may shorten its life a little bit. This is why others like STP only do it on wet batteries, since we can refill water. Another reason is the potential explosion risk, as you understand. Anyway, the conclusion is very promising! The trick DOES improve CCA! If possible, can you do this on an OLD BUT GOOD wet battery and share with us? It should work!
@PRSH8YAPROJECTS2 жыл бұрын
Check out my channel I've done this on a few wet cell batteries. Thanks for your comment. Don't forget to subscribe!
@jrm1632 жыл бұрын
@@PRSH8YAPROJECTS I watched your old videos on this topic, but the conclusion was not as clear as this one. Check out my comments on those videos of yours, and I’m the same person.
@bodeine4542 жыл бұрын
I've seen a few videos where you can top off an AGM battery with distilled water, just not as high as a flooded lead acid battery. I topped my motorcycle AGM battery off with distilled water just to the top of the glass mat, just where the matt looks wet. But I've been seeing that you can't use this procedure on an AGM battery, I've read that it ruins them, IDK. Most sealed batterys, even if they say no maintenance batteries, have fill caps located under the sticker on top. I used a warm hair dryer to soften the sticker glue and carefully removed it and stuck it on a clean Ziplock baggy so that I can reattach later when I'm finished servicing it. The caps in this battery are all attached to a single strip at the top so you can't just remove one individual cap, you carefully pry them all up and they all stay attached to that strip. It's kinda hard to tell that there's caps under the sticker in my case, that strip looked like just part of the battery case so it can full you. I'm not sure if I want to try this with my welder or not, I just charged mine after adding a bit of water and I'll see how it does now, if that didn't do the trick then what do I have to lose(besides my face 🤣) by trying the welder method. And this welder also does DC pulse, not sure if the pulse function would work hooked to a battery or not or if there would be any benefit, just throwing it out there.
@discovereelife4343 Жыл бұрын
@@bodeine454 Hi...how is your agm battery after adding water? Did it charge now? Mine just won't charge After some deep cycles ...and after intense use in a UPS (im from Ukraine) no electricity for 12 hours and more
@bodeine454 Жыл бұрын
@@discovereelife4343 I did the DC welder method on the AGM battery and then charged it overnight and it's been good ever since. It's extremely cold here now so I do keep it plugged into a battery tender but during warmer weather it hasn't failed to start yet since.
@algenealmasco9577 Жыл бұрын
did you put distilled water on that AGM battery?
@yougod7253 Жыл бұрын
THis is my 6th time viewing, Im going to try my XS power xp2000. Wish me luck. You convinced me.
@Bob-gn8ph9 ай бұрын
Luke 21,36 KJV
@x5-acousticguitarstuff.2 Жыл бұрын
I use an AGM Charger, that works Perfect for me.
@sandymcleod7462 жыл бұрын
Good video I've noticed none of the videos mentioned the voltage not amps are mentioned which I think is important can you please. Tell us the volts please
@able880 Жыл бұрын
As for charging you want to go for around 17 volts -for 5.minutes - then allow the battery to cool down for about an hour - If the battery is a junkyard dead battery you might have to do it 5 or 6 times - Also with AGM batterys there is a cover and most can be removed - just add water to the top of the plates no more than that - If it's a battery in service as in a car you might only need to de-sulfate it once or twice at 16 to 17 volts - I'm not sure if that welder will go down to 16 volts when it's real hot - - It won't work for all battrey's - in industry we de-sulfate battrey's all the time - up to 85° about 17 volts 85° and above about 16 volts - . Your driving the lead sulphate on the negative plate back into the water and the oxygen on in the positive plate back into the water - the oxygen combined with the sulfate making sulfuric acid once again - In industry it's called equalizing the battery but it's done at a low current till the battery in this case climbs to 15.5 to 17 volts depending on temperature
@larrylow55202 жыл бұрын
This will work on a battery that has sat around and gone dead but it will not repair a bad cell or a battery that will not hold a charge. Give it up and buy a battery.
@wellnesspathforme6236 Жыл бұрын
Amen. And learn to care for your batteries up front so they never discharge too much.
@baronvolkov6172 Жыл бұрын
@@wellnesspathforme6236 Not really feasible when you have 9 cars and 5 pieces of heavy equipment
@wellnesspathforme6236 Жыл бұрын
@@baronvolkov6172 I guess you do what you can with your most important vehicles, and make enough money to buy more batteries than you might otherwise have to buy because you are so productive making things.
@baronvolkov6172 Жыл бұрын
@@wellnesspathforme6236 Yeah, i tend to build up a collection of batteries because diesel rams have two and il bring in some old mower/atv batteries from the shed as cores because by brain tells me these "old" truck batteries still usefull for something, but ends up being a usefull doorstop Lol
@owenbruce41208 ай бұрын
With patience ya can get a dead cell to respond, but on a time basis ya could earn enough for a new battery...that's the red line ⏳
@strikemaster129 күн бұрын
Good stuff mate.. I learned a fair bit from this video. Thanks. I cuttently have 2 AGM's from my caravan.. One measures 8v under load, and the other 10.5. Do you think this method of yours will save the 8v bat?
@richie370 Жыл бұрын
This is definitely interesting but I don’t think I’m going to try it on my odyssey extreme agm for my jeep. It’s a sealed battery and definitely risk the possibility of explosion
@willwilliams2944 Жыл бұрын
I run the same batteries in my jeep. I have found that an optima 400 or 1200 charger works really well for me. To maintain them when it's sitting and for reviving severely discharged batteries. I left my jl which has really bad parasitic draw sit for 6 months and drained my batteries below 6v and 3vs. I bought the optima 400 and was able to get them to hold 12.8/12.9 volts when sitting for days. Didn't have any issues from bringing them up like some chargers do with not reading heavily discharged batteries. Cyclyed them up to 14.6 V in spec range and floated them at 13.6 in spec range. I have had those same batteries in my car for 3 plus years now with no issues. Unless I let it sit for weeks on end without maintaing it, but I hopefully won't do that again lol.
@able880 Жыл бұрын
Those battrey's have rubber vent caps under the cover - you can add water to them just add a little to just the top of the plates - In reality as long as it's not real hot as it's been this summer in the south - they don't need water for 8 to 10 yrs - I've had many of them -
@wellnesspathforme6236 Жыл бұрын
How long did the battery continue to be operable? TIA...
@ONEYEDPiRAT2 ай бұрын
Thanks dude I love this idea!
@Throughthelurkingglass4 ай бұрын
I took my MB 800 cca to O'Reilly's, they charged it twice said no good, AutoZone charged it twice it was 100%
@TOTMGreenish-Top-Of-The-Morrin5 ай бұрын
yeah I'm not sure about this when you start with a battery that has 12.4 volts which is normal resting voltage for a 12-volt battery so what did you fix
@dellwinelikesrock Жыл бұрын
awsome, thanks man
@bweather042 жыл бұрын
You should do a 3, 4, 5, 6 month after review...
@PRSH8YAPROJECTS2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video ideas.
@M99pt2 жыл бұрын
Any way is working after 1 year !
@discovereelife4343 Жыл бұрын
@@PRSH8YAPROJECTS hi...how is that battery now? Stil alive and charging property?
@senekabandara1383 Жыл бұрын
havnt you tried it on the second battery which is also there in your vehicle ? the VRLA
@becomematrix Жыл бұрын
This will only extend the life cycle somewhat. during the load test you didnt let it stay on for lon to see if it held.
@Wrenchmonkey1Ай бұрын
When load testing that way, you don't let it stay on for long. 500 amps is an insane amount of current. The correct thing to do is to remove the battery from the charger and let it rest for a few hours and see how well it holds after the surface charge dissipates, then do a brief load test. The only thing he did 'wrong' was failing to let the battery rest after the charge. If you want to do a capacity test, there are testers that are made for that purpose as well, but what you propose doing with a load tester is a terrible idea.
@incipfer3 ай бұрын
The welder being a DC [ARC] confused me a bit, I don't really understand what restoring or re-conditioning was accomplished. A warm day outside so the battery wasn't too cold hot or cold; meaning the battery should take up to around a 15v charging and been happy. The welder I could have believed might have done some benefit if it had been an AC Voltage welder, being that it would have acted as a desulfation device. Hitting the battery with a DC welder [High Amperage~200A /Low Voltage~12V] would have just acted as a higher than normal charging source, with lower than desired topping voltage. Depending on the electrolyte level in the cells the higher amperage had the potential to burn the top of the plates if the Glass Mat was dry causing a dead short in the plates. For the AGM Battery Recondioning at a battery shop the process is almost exactly the same as a standard lead acid battery with removable caps, the battery is washed down so no dirt gets knocked into the battery, then the weight of the clean battery is taken and compared to the stated weight by the manufacturer, anything less is water that was burned off and gets weighed back into the battery as de-ionized water. You just have to cut the caps out, add water, charge it then glue the caps back in.
@zdravkomomci75702 жыл бұрын
Well done impressive cheers
@bweather042 жыл бұрын
The real question is, can I do this to four batteries all connected in perfect parallel, without disconnecting??
@queenstownkid Жыл бұрын
please video that performance
@owenbruce41208 ай бұрын
The internal resistance will be different to each battery....better to concentrate on one at a time...
@AdrepKeith Жыл бұрын
Yeah but seems to me a true test would be to let it sit overnight then do the test. Me thinks the voltage would drop after sitting.
@joro9960 Жыл бұрын
I took out my Agm battery from my car and its reading 12.17volts, is that low?
@PRSH8YAPROJECTS Жыл бұрын
You have to load test it to truly check
@Canoneosmiami2 жыл бұрын
You can or cannot? I kind of didn’t understand it clearly…
@timbarnett38982 жыл бұрын
I have battery this showing dead, so your video will help me! What kind an size of welder are you using? I noticed you might have roof leak in upper corner of opening. Might want too check roof there! Hope I can help you too! Thanks what is these batteries filled with? Water? Acid? Nothing? Also my neighbor had ties with RXR train person, they needed too switch out batteries on a schedule so they sold great batteries! Sometimes needing pick up truck!
@PRSH8YAPROJECTS2 жыл бұрын
I totally appreciate that you notice things like that!!
@able880 Жыл бұрын
That's a 200 amp inverter welder Amazon has them for 60 or 70 dollars -
@hominidaetheodosia Жыл бұрын
How many Amps is the welder?
@able880 Жыл бұрын
Up to 200 amps at 60 % cycle - that is when it's plugged into a 30 amp circuit - it will burn rods up to 80 amps on a 15 amp 115 volt breaker
@guttermastersplus5613 Жыл бұрын
P any battery will increase in power when you cook them like that what you're doing is kicking them but will they hold the power afterwards just cause your lung testament right after you charge it yeah it's going to show better it's called the maintenance part of it on down the road 6 months or so I think you're damaging the AGM battery
@Voidy123 Жыл бұрын
I think if a dead battery gives you another 6 months it's worth it....what are you going to do?...throw it away..... so it's a last resort for a totally dead battery
@binaryglitch6410 ай бұрын
Useless BS-ing untill 1:31... thank me later.
@OU812NVME Жыл бұрын
When we recondition lead batteries we add distilled water here you're not opening up anything and adding anything those gel mats so you're basically just cooking that battery which doesn't make any sense though you're doing on a low voltage though
@Canoneosmiami Жыл бұрын
Or properly explained what is dc welder and all the steps taken …
@trvman12 жыл бұрын
Like people just have all this equipment laying around that you use. Just cheaper for someone to just go out and buy a new battery. I got 7 years out of my AGM car batter and only cost 200 bucks for a new Duracell with a 4 year warranty.
@wellnesspathforme6236 Жыл бұрын
And learn battery preventative maintenance. Teach the younglings..
@bmb33336 ай бұрын
Impossible renew the battery if dead inside and abandonedlong time, the 6 room's of the battery have 6 cells, each one have two parts negative and positive isolation done, and they're in corrosive acid in wet battery, the others not Putting higher voltage very dangerous
@yougod72532 жыл бұрын
Boooommmm
@PRSH8YAPROJECTS2 жыл бұрын
👍
@terryschantz4523 Жыл бұрын
That did not help at all confusing at best.., and that is the absolute worst type of battery terminal on the + post to use on anything let alone a expensive car, its rusty and will not allow proper charging of a good battery. very surprised nothing melted down blew up on you... use REAL cables, those junky clamp style are made for lawn mowers, and still are not reliable TOO much resistance in them...
@Bennyfinklestienfurtrapper5 ай бұрын
Is your name Gill? You look like gill Jimenez dude from LI