Can all batteries be recovered or desulfated?
Batteries failures are usually due to several factors: • Natural wear & tear: old age, separators between plates decay, plate connectors corrode, etc. • Abuse – filling tap water instead of distilled water into the batteries. • Lack of Maintenance – not filling water into the batteries, loose connectors. • Aging – batteries that are too aged will lose active material. • Crystallization of Lead Sulfate – 84% of batteries fail due to this (Battery Council International). As the names suggests, desulfators can only recover sulfated batteries that are not too aged.
