Kinda funny but I think its a battery charger issue, not a battery issue. These new battery chargers suck!! They want to be all smart and not pull current if they dont see a load. So they wont kick in till they see something that is well above an open. A really dead battery will look like an open circuit and some of the newer chargers wont even turn on.

So I force them. Ill short the leads to turn the charger on and make it pump some current. Sometimes alls it takes is a quick shorting of the two terminals while its hooked up to the dead battery and it stays lit. Then it will pump current through the dead cell. I dont like the new smart chargers. My old wheel around unit will pump current into whatever is hooked up to it. JR



Oh, and for really bad batteries, YUP, Ive zapped them with some very high current to remove some deposits from the plates. Its done all the time. Burning whiskers. Large and small cells. I dont have a problem doing that. Some folks will. But they prolly have more money than I do. JR