Battery year?

Bob Bancroft

Well-known Member
Location
Aurora NY
Temperature is about 32F here. Three out of five diesel engines, inside, started this morning. It has occurred to me that it's been a while since I have purchased any batteries. When it starts in, it seems to blossom into an epidemic. This may be the year. I didn't try several others. At least most of them are smaller and not as important.
 
Interesting. Can all that be true? I have one battery maintainer. I could use many more. Coming up with enough cords to power them
all would be a deal breaker!
 
This is nice when you have multiple batteries to charge. Its not cheap. You can add the 25 foot cable option too.
Beware of the reviews on Amazon or any other site, most are fake.
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Between dad and we are taking up your slack in the last year. 2 new batteries in the excavator, 2 new pickup batteries, 1 tractor battery, one new car battery, one atv battery,one lawn mower battery and one travel trailer battery. Not from lack of maintenance they were just do. Like you said seems to go in spurts. Hope we are done for a while !
 
Thats what usually catch's the fibers, a friend on mine use to be all Allis-Chalmers on the farm, the Ago dealer said he had a nice 2020 off lease he would sell him,,,long story short it had a 2018 battery in it, how did that get there then,so the deal went south, way south !!
 
KCM,

Before you buy the magic
bullet(DISULFATOR)! DO a bit sf
research.

I said it before, battery plates
will deteriorate, and that will
diminish battery capacity.

No magic bullet can bring the plate
back to 100%.
Disulfation is very difficult to
asses and prove it has been
reversed.

Go to battery university. com.
A More reliable source of info,
then all those battery
manufacturers claimed,

Guido.
 
(quoted from post at 16:51:05 01/22/23) No magic bullet can bring the plate
back to 100%.

Absolutely correct!

However, I was given a battery a few years back that was less than 2 years old. It would not charge, regardless of what charger was used. About a year later I bought a Stanley smart charger (https://www.amazon.com/STANLEY-BC25BS-Automatic-Maintainer-Alternator/dp/B01BYFSUJW?th=1) It was another several months before I thought to try the desulfator function on this battery - actually, I forgot about the battery altogether! *lol* Anyway, I ran it through desulfator mode for 3 days. That was 3+ years ago and it's still charging and holding a charge just wonderfully.

I have since used it on other batteries that were fringe (older) and it gave them more usable life. Sorry Guido, but I cannot argue against what I've personally experienced. 100%? No way. But they really can help, and in some instances can even save a battery that's still full of life.
 
I don't use maintainers on anything, I make sure they're charged in the fall, and they sit 5 months in N MN, some are in a warm garage, but most are in the cold, -35! I had one JD strongbox battery last over 12 years, the one that came in out 13 Chev Silverado lasted 9 years. In a newer vehicle I disconnect one cable to prevent small drain.
 
Knock on wood the 2002 date code original battery still starts our 50 hp Kubota in -30 on the glow plugs only. Japanese battery brand you cant buy here. Meanwhile struggle to get 3-4 years out of some others on the farm.

Have been converting everything to group 31 over last 5 years.
 
The reason battery replacements seem to come in "streaks" is because you put it off and put it off and put it off until everything needs a battery and you're sick of dragging around jumper cables.

2021 was the year of the battery for me. I like to say that when Dad died he left me a pile of dead batteries and a dog.

Batteries by and large all last about the same amount of time.
 
I got longer battery service with solar charger on the 560 battery , put it all the time ,if I dont forget .
Starting is excellent since .
 
I have gone from averaging 5/6 to 10/12 years on battery life by adding 1 OZ (car size and smaller) to 2 OZs (golf cart size and larger) of hydrogen peroxide per cell per year to my batteries. Extends life on 4 wheelers and snowmobiles also. Been doing it for over 20 years and yet to see a down side. I start when they are new. On older batteries, you can see the reaction starting when you add it.
 

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