On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:26:15 +0100 (BST) Tony Duell 
<ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Tell me about it :-). I've never managed to recover a lead-acid battery 
> that's been discharged and then left -- there's no 'zapping'-type trick 
> that works. If anyone has any ideas on recovery methods, I'd be 
> interested to hear them.
I have a World-War-II era book called "Accumulator 
Charging", which goes into some detail on lead-acid 
batteries.  I expect it'll say what to do, but it may also 
assume that you're willing and able to dismantle the 
battery, fix it and then reassemble -- in the case of a 12V 
battery, repeat for all six cells!
I'll dig out the book and take a look -- I won't be able to 
supply an ISBN, though, because it's too old for that sort 
of thing!
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England
Received on Wed Apr 26 2000 - 18:12:37 BST