April 17 2008
I am the president of Panhandle Electric Vehicle Association in Idaho (Electric Auto Association). I am also the service Manager for Go Green Electric cars in Post Falls. I am the owner Gordo'z Electric Speed Shop. We do conversion cars there.
I have had a Renaissance RC-24A12 charger for about 2 weeks in my shop. We have been charging all kinds of different batteries with it. The battery distributor guy put a $500 tester on a battery that had been sitting for 48 hours after being charged and it was missing 20% of its lead. But it then read 125% of its capacity. So we loaded it three times with the meter to make sure there was no surface charge to give a false reading. On the third time it only took 45 seconds to recover rather than 3 minutes it usually takes for normal batteries. This battery was a 2001 around 850 CA from a dual battery diesel Dodge 2001 with Cummins. We loaded it three more times and it was fine. So at that point the local battery distributor said "when do I get one?"
So now everyone is just dropping batteries off at the shop and the charger is running constantly. Anything that is mechanically sound will recover so far. Some batteries take 12 hours and a few will take about 3 days.
It is getting to be a pain because I am spending my time restoring everyone's batteries instead of doing other work!
Gordon Ormesher
EVCarClub@hotmail.com, (208) 660-8539
Mailing: 2025 E. Foxborough Court, Hayden, ID 83835
Meetings: 6:30pm, 2nd Monday of the month
Location: Go Green Electric, Post Falls, ID
April 15 2008
"I have a loader with two big batteries that wouldn't take a charge. I charged them for 10 hours but next morning batteries were low. Put both on the Rejuvenator, one came back and other was twice as good." The one battery did not come back to its full rating.
"I had two more truck batteries from Napa that were Exide truck batteries that would not take a charge. Now they are still holding charge just like brand new. They are 5 or 6 years old."
Frank Reed
Reed Enterprises, Inc.
Hayden, Idaho
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