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I have a battery thats 100% drained and ive heard somethimng about salt or water (something like that) being but into the battery. on top of my battery, if i lift up a cover, there are 6 holes.

my battery wont charge up because its so drained so what can i put in it to liven it up? thanks

justsearched on google. i put same normal cooking salt in each hole, about 1/4 a tea spoon, still says battery low/damaged and wont charge. should i maybe put more in? or is there something else i can put in? cheers

battery is annoying me, just poured some more salt in, still nothing, please help.

If you want to screw around with it some more I'm sure there's something you could try. I also wouldn't be surprised if that battery is gone for good. Any reason why you just don't want to get a new one?

i am getting a new one but i will have to wait till next week and the battery is sitting in front of me on the charger and its just annoying me i want to charge it. what else can i do with it/put in it?

thanks

Best suggestion is a mixture of Electrolyte and de-ionised water. These should both be available from most bike repair shops... (and near enough anything else will not do the battery any good at all)

hook a 12 volt light up to the battery then hook the charger to it.
it will put a load on the charger.it thinks it is not hooked to a battrery because it is so dead.

do you happen to know if you had a bad cell? If you did its gone, there's nothing you can do. If you can get it to charge and put a load on it, check to see if you get any of the cells bubbling, if it bubbles that cell is gone.

I worked for a battery warehouse for years and would often recondition batteries for resale for cheap. If they were dry though, we would junk them, not worth the amount of work to try and bring back. If it was just low we would fill charge and load test. If it holds a charge and passes our load test we clean it up re-charge it and sell it for a couple of bucks as a recon.

If your's is bone dry and won't hold a charge, you're screwed, sorry.

I believe you killed tha battery with the addition of cooking salt (sodium chloride).

The only article I could find on this were using tetrasodium salt or EDTA.

EDTA is ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. It is a food preservative, but you wouldn't use it for cooking.

here's some verbiage from one site

The sulphating can effectively be removed by adding to each cell the tetrasodium salt of a a weak organic acid known to chemists as EDTA. EDTA stands for ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid,.

If this wasn't what you added, you might as well recycle that battery as it isn't going to work with table salt in it.

Doesn't a lead-acid battery give off chlorine gas when salt enters the mix? That's what they are always yipping about in those submarine movies when the saltwater starts leaking into the battery compartment.