Desulfating a new battery?

[SilvaRizla]

Hi,

I bought a new battery and added the elctrolite, tested it on the bike and its dead so I put it on charge and it is desulfating instead of charging.

Is this normal for a brand new batetry? How long should it take?


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I'm Ivan Dobski the Meatsafe Murderer only I never done it, I only said that I done it so they'd take the truncheon out of my bottom

[finpos]

If you mean it's creating a load of bubbles, that's normal and it'll do it for a few hours. make sure you've pulled the little plug off the end of the battery vent

I'd take it off the charger until it's settled down.

finpos.

[SilvaRizla]

Its not creating bubbles, its on the desulfate setting on the charger. Battery vent? The instructions didn't say anything about that, what does it look like?
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I'm Ivan Dobski the Meatsafe Murderer only I never done it, I only said that I done it so they'd take the truncheon out of my bottom

[finpos]

I'd definitely take it off the charger - it sounds a bit clever to me but it probably doesn't know what to do with a new battery. It certainly doesn't want desulphating.

Just fill the battery with acid and let it sit for a few hours to stew. It should then be ready to go. Your battery will either have little vents built into the individual caps for each cell, or modern batteries tend to have a single, seperate vent at the side onto which you put a length of clear tubing, and for delivery this has a little cap on it. If you don't take it off, the gas released by the battery when you fill it with acid inflates it quite nicely. The cap looks like a little coloured condom.

finpos.

[SilvaRizla]

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I'm Ivan Dobski the Meatsafe Murderer only I never done it, I only said that I done it so they'd take the truncheon out of my bottom

[ZRX61]

[tony532]

@zrx61

it's probably an optimate 3

it does everything automatically
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[irving]

[finpos]

Hmm. The instructions that come with batteries normally recommend just using the battery straight off or to follow a fairly complex first-time charge regime, using a very low charge rate that normal domestic chargers can't be relied upon to limit themselves to. Even worse you could plug it into your optimate and it'll deliberatly overcharge it for you because it has decided it's sulphated.

It actually goes on to describe this regime on the webpage you cribbed your reply from. Maybe you should have copied that bit in as well? https://www.ibmwr.org/otech/newbattery.html

finpos.

[Jebus]

if its an optimate its got the 4 leds the green for battery ok, red for battery fucked, a orange yellow led with a yellow label mean battey discharged/sulphated and it will get charged and the orange led with orange label is battery badly discharged/sulphated and it should be able to recover it.

It changes how it charges etc depending on how your battery is, any problems and it will stop.
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[irving]