Jeff D- awesome slugs, man... don't catch the curb as you're throwin' snow- if you do, you'll be replacing curb next spring!
Terry- if he was at 5.5v before, and 3v now, that's down to under 1/2v per cell... even at 5.5v, there wasn't any power to begin with. Slight chance that it'll charge back up if he runs it dead flat, then trickle charges it for a month, but other'n that, it sounds like to me that it's WAY gone.
Zak- if that battery is 'new', try and charge it with a 1A (max) charger, but disconnect one of the battery cables first. Put it in a warm place, and plan on leaving it on the trickle charger for (hmmm...) at least a week... (60Ah @ 1Ah charge rate = 60 hours, which will bring it from 9v to 13.8v... it'll take another 60 hours to get it from 3v to 9v)
It's easy to say 'scrape the white stuff off', but it ain't all white, and it ain't all that easy to see, and it ain't all that easy to scrape... and when you think you got it all, there's still some there. Baking soda and a toothbrush are a good start (on the battery posts). Don't get it IN the cells.
RE. capillary action- take a piece of #2 battery cable, put a bucket of salt-water in your basement, and hang that cable so the bottom 2" is submerged, flop the rest out on the floor. In a day or so, you'll see saltwater flowing out the other end, onto the basement floor. Now throw the cable away- it's shot. When I'm bored, I part-time at the marina up the street, and I deal with about 10 battery cables per year on boats... invariably someone pulls a battery out, and drops the cable down into the bilgewater... and they corrode. Funny thing is, they'll look perfectly fine on both ends, and when the customer complains, I take the cable, find the crunchy-spot in the middle, whack it in half with a hatchet, and shake green stuff out of the middle, onto their shoes. THEN they get the strange idea that I MIGHT know what I'm talking about. Same thing happens with the #0000 cables that go from the propulsion-inverter quick-disconnects down to the motor junction-box on your DC-Metro railcars and ACELA trainset. Little piece of ballast (rock) gets kicked up, nicks a cable, and a few days later, it's limping home with a dead phase.
You'd be surprised who ends up in Hugh Heffner's magazine... and you'd likely be surprised to find out that a good lot of the models you see in everyday media... do other sorts of modeling, too. One of my favorite articles was an interview with Ozzy Ozbourne's wife (she's his business manager). No, she didn't do any exposing poses (and it's a good thing) and it was long before "The Osbournes" TV show. Unlike Wendy O. Williams, if you've ever seen Ozzman in concert, you'll have seen enough of the family skin to not want to see more. Unfortunately, I don't have a subscription, and although there've been a few good articles, I'm not much of a leisure or fiction reader- I'm more into technical stuff, so I'm mostly interested in the pictures and the dirty jokes.
Terry- if he was at 5.5v before, and 3v now, that's down to under 1/2v per cell... even at 5.5v, there wasn't any power to begin with. Slight chance that it'll charge back up if he runs it dead flat, then trickle charges it for a month, but other'n that, it sounds like to me that it's WAY gone.
Zak- if that battery is 'new', try and charge it with a 1A (max) charger, but disconnect one of the battery cables first. Put it in a warm place, and plan on leaving it on the trickle charger for (hmmm...) at least a week... (60Ah @ 1Ah charge rate = 60 hours, which will bring it from 9v to 13.8v... it'll take another 60 hours to get it from 3v to 9v)
It's easy to say 'scrape the white stuff off', but it ain't all white, and it ain't all that easy to see, and it ain't all that easy to scrape... and when you think you got it all, there's still some there. Baking soda and a toothbrush are a good start (on the battery posts). Don't get it IN the cells.
RE. capillary action- take a piece of #2 battery cable, put a bucket of salt-water in your basement, and hang that cable so the bottom 2" is submerged, flop the rest out on the floor. In a day or so, you'll see saltwater flowing out the other end, onto the basement floor. Now throw the cable away- it's shot. When I'm bored, I part-time at the marina up the street, and I deal with about 10 battery cables per year on boats... invariably someone pulls a battery out, and drops the cable down into the bilgewater... and they corrode. Funny thing is, they'll look perfectly fine on both ends, and when the customer complains, I take the cable, find the crunchy-spot in the middle, whack it in half with a hatchet, and shake green stuff out of the middle, onto their shoes. THEN they get the strange idea that I MIGHT know what I'm talking about. Same thing happens with the #0000 cables that go from the propulsion-inverter quick-disconnects down to the motor junction-box on your DC-Metro railcars and ACELA trainset. Little piece of ballast (rock) gets kicked up, nicks a cable, and a few days later, it's limping home with a dead phase.
You'd be surprised who ends up in Hugh Heffner's magazine... and you'd likely be surprised to find out that a good lot of the models you see in everyday media... do other sorts of modeling, too. One of my favorite articles was an interview with Ozzy Ozbourne's wife (she's his business manager). No, she didn't do any exposing poses (and it's a good thing) and it was long before "The Osbournes" TV show. Unlike Wendy O. Williams, if you've ever seen Ozzman in concert, you'll have seen enough of the family skin to not want to see more. Unfortunately, I don't have a subscription, and although there've been a few good articles, I'm not much of a leisure or fiction reader- I'm more into technical stuff, so I'm mostly interested in the pictures and the dirty jokes.
