From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Sun Jan 05 2003 - 09:34:27 PST
Thanks Kerry for the answer....I'm gonna do some hillbilly research on
it in the spring....I'll post if I find out anything. Fred
kbernste32@aol.com wrote:
> Well, OK but you asked. You're right - most of those patents do not
> address the $64K question. I attempted to take the integral of
> the waveform's total charge delivery at both polarities and then get
> the delta - indeed net charge is delivered to the battery, so it is
> trickling charge -but there is also a portion of the cycle where the
> plates are briefly reversed in polarity. The interval is of a specific
> duration. Checking with a chemist at work, that depolarization would
> be sufficient to achieve the lead sulfate ionization potential.
> (Pb+H2SO4=Pb2SO4+H2 undone, or something like that)
> The trick then is that if the battery is weak (has little forward
> ionic transfer) then that reverse interval becomes dominant ion
> exchange, and can consume the lead sulfate.
> I think this is close to the idea, but I think I'll keep my day job.
>
> Kerry
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