Lil'John
Former #278
Short is the title. Batteries are dropping like flies, they aren't charging, and my charger looks to have shit the bed. "Old" charger was a four year old CTEK 56-158.
Long:
I've got several light use Excide Edge AGM batteries that are approaching junk status. I've tried dropping from ~2 feet. I've tried putting them on charger above for days/weeks on end only to have them not hold a charge. Two were stored off the ground.
The old charger(CTEK) doesn't appear to have a "shock" mode to it so I'm not horribly upset at it crapping out.
Is there a charger or booster that has a "kick this battery in the nuts to align it" mode to it?
I'd love to be able to recover the four or so batteries if at all possible rather than buy a shit load of new ones.
Somewhat off topic, one of the rigs is possibly on the chopping block so if I have to replace the battery, is it worth going Optima for "name" recognition to boost sales? Or is the quality still crap and not worth considering? (yeah, I know this will probably derail whole thread.)
Long:
I've got several light use Excide Edge AGM batteries that are approaching junk status. I've tried dropping from ~2 feet. I've tried putting them on charger above for days/weeks on end only to have them not hold a charge. Two were stored off the ground.
The old charger(CTEK) doesn't appear to have a "shock" mode to it so I'm not horribly upset at it crapping out.
Is there a charger or booster that has a "kick this battery in the nuts to align it" mode to it?
I'd love to be able to recover the four or so batteries if at all possible rather than buy a shit load of new ones.
Somewhat off topic, one of the rigs is possibly on the chopping block so if I have to replace the battery, is it worth going Optima for "name" recognition to boost sales? Or is the quality still crap and not worth considering? (yeah, I know this will probably derail whole thread.)