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From: Steve Weinstein (no email)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 23:54:42 EST
In which case I stand corrected. My last post was just the NY skeptic in
me.
How much do they want for the unit and is the installation difficult?
Steve Weinstein
s/v HYDRO-THERAPY
1981 Cherubini Designed H33
Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Arild Jensen" <>
To: "ahmet erkan" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: lv-ab: RE: Pulsetech battery desulfator
> Ahmet wrote:
> I looked at the "pulsetech" web-site and started reading.
>
> I poured myself a scotch to help ease the pain but darn, it kept sounding
> more and more like snake oil.
> >>>>>> snip<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<,
> If any of our electrically savvy, no nonsense type people had the patience
> to sift through this site please give us a summary.
> Ahmet
>
>
> REPLY
> Well pour me another glass of snake oil!
>
> Four years ago I was asked about this product and what opinion I had of
> it.
> Like you I was skeptical to begin with. However someone gave me a free
> product to test.
> Surprise! It apparently worked as claimed.
>
> I was then given the go-ahead by the company (Xantrex) I worked for to
> investigate whether this product actually was for real and did it have any
> technical merit. After a year of testing, I concluded that it does in fact
> work as claimed.
> To date I have salvaged or recovered something like $2000 worth of
> batteries
> from the scrap heap.
> My tests have included recovering batteries that were unable to take any
> sort of charge despite using the best available TC40+ smart charger with
> or
> without equalization and so on. I rejuvenated batteries that had been
> left
> abandoned for 18 months in the cold without being on a charger. These
> batteries showed almost no voltage potential at all. Typically under 2.0
> volts
>
> If you bother to read the technical papers and do your own homework
> regarding how and what goes on inside a lead acid battery you realize the
> theory does make sense. Further Goggling and internet searching reveals
> there is a number of people who are building these devices themselves. One
> website advertises that you can build one for $20 and even gives you a
> parts
> list.
>
> After my initial tests I continued to work with Pulsetech devices. There
> are
> other brands available but all of them have some shortcoming or other.
> Usually it's because they have made some change to avoid patent
> infringement.
> Yes, Pulsetech is patented and the documents are available for downloading
> from the patent office.
> You can check it out yourself. It is legitimate.
>
> I continue to use and install Pulsetech devices because I continue to get
> good results.
> The Pulsetech device does rejuvenate batteries that have lost the ability
> to
> recharge due to sulfating.
> They seem to give a new lease on life to tired old batteries. One customer
> reported that his diesel engines now start fast even in cold weather. He
> reports that the cranking speed is much faster after the Pulsetech devices
> were installed on the same old battery bank he got with the boat. We
> believe
> the bank is about 6- 8 years old at this point in time. It was old when he
> bought the boat used from someone that lived aboard full time and ran
> everything on an inverter.
>
> I have disassembled batteries that failed in order to determine what
> exactly
> went wrong internally.
> I have examined badly sulfated battery plates. I hav eexamioned good
> battery
> plates.
> They do resemble the documented evidence the Pulsetech website advertises.
>
> BTW Pulsetech indicates that 80% of all bad batteries are sulfated. The
> rest sufer from other damage which is not repairable with desulfators. My
> own experienc closely matches this. Roughly 20% of the dead bateris I
> have
> tried to recover did not respond. These are the batteries which I
> disassembled to investigate further.
>
> So this sceptic is now a believer. I now own and use four of the devices
> and
> I paid for all of them.
> I still have the free sample as well.
> How many installations is required to become statistically significant
> instead of just anecdotal?
>
> Arild
> A happy user of Pulsetech products.
>
>
>
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