If you have ever encountered a problem in your car when the battery just seemed to be unable to jump start your car? This happens most commonly in the winter and in the morning. After several trials, you finally get the car to start and then the next morning it behaves like it again. If your car battery was brand new or wasn't used for a long time, this might seem weird. Actually, you have just experienced battery sulfation.
If you cut open a battery (I wouldn't recommend this), it's actually made of metallic plates suspended in an electrolyte solution. In a nutshell, a battery creates voltage through electrical processes that happen between these plates and the solution. The only problem is, sometimes, the lead present in the plates tend to combine with sulfuric acid in the solution and becomes lead sulfate. This process is called sulfation.
This could happen to any battery. Those who are most prone to this kind of chemical reaction are those batteries who have been left unused for a long time like in storage rooms or just being displayed and not bought in a store.
Whenever you use the battery, it reaches a certain voltage and then suddenly dies. If you try to find out what's wrong, you will find it wasn't generating enough current and it has virtually no capacity. So how does this happen?
The lead sulfate that has formed from the lead and the sulfuric acid is a kind of precipitate which slowly covers the metallic plates in crust. A precipitate is a kind of rust, which instead of eating away the metal it has formed on, just covers it entirely.
Luckily, there are devices in the market that can reverse this chemical reaction. It "shakes" away the lead sulfate compound off of the plates and you'l find your batteries performing like before. You should ask your local mechanic about battery desulfators and don't suffer anymore from dead batteries. - 16752
If you cut open a battery (I wouldn't recommend this), it's actually made of metallic plates suspended in an electrolyte solution. In a nutshell, a battery creates voltage through electrical processes that happen between these plates and the solution. The only problem is, sometimes, the lead present in the plates tend to combine with sulfuric acid in the solution and becomes lead sulfate. This process is called sulfation.
This could happen to any battery. Those who are most prone to this kind of chemical reaction are those batteries who have been left unused for a long time like in storage rooms or just being displayed and not bought in a store.
Whenever you use the battery, it reaches a certain voltage and then suddenly dies. If you try to find out what's wrong, you will find it wasn't generating enough current and it has virtually no capacity. So how does this happen?
The lead sulfate that has formed from the lead and the sulfuric acid is a kind of precipitate which slowly covers the metallic plates in crust. A precipitate is a kind of rust, which instead of eating away the metal it has formed on, just covers it entirely.
Luckily, there are devices in the market that can reverse this chemical reaction. It "shakes" away the lead sulfate compound off of the plates and you'l find your batteries performing like before. You should ask your local mechanic about battery desulfators and don't suffer anymore from dead batteries. - 16752
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You should check your car for battery sulfation and be sure it runs smoothly using the best battery desulfator available in your local mechanic shop.
