Restore Your Own Batteries And Save Money

With the cost of rechargeable batteries it makes sense to get as much life out of yours as possible. There is a procedure that you can perform yourself to do this and it is worth a try. The procedure is called cycling and basically submits your battery to charge and discharge cycles.

Do not try this cycling on lead acid batteries like in cars or lithium-ion batteries as found in cell phones and laptop computers. Otherwise you can do this procedure on other household rechargeable batteries like power tools, cordless phones and such.

What cycling will do is erase the memory effect that occurs from normal use with NiCad and NiMH batteries. It increases the charge capacity and in turn gives you more life out of them. The best case is to do this when you realize your battery is not holding a charge like it used to.

When the battery is almost fully discharged, not completely discharged, fully recharge the battery. Again let it almost fully discharge then recharge again, repeating this 3 to 5 times. This will reverse the batteries memory effect and improve its performance.

If this does not restore your batteries performance there may be another issue such as a bad charger or bad cells in the battery. Cycling is a free and convenient way to get more use out of your rechargeable batteries. Think of the money you could be saving.

If you want to restore your car battery you can do a restoration procedure for those also. It takes a inexpensive tool and some simple instructions and can save you a lot of money in the long run.

Do You Have A Solar Power System - You Can Use Used Batteries

If you have or are installing a solar power system in your home, have you considered how you will get new replacement batteries?

You could go out and buy some golf cart batteries which would not be the cheapest way to go, or better yet find used and discarded batteries.

So what would you do with these old batteries which you may have got for free?

You have the choice of restoring them back to almost new condition for very little cost. Think of the savings you would incur because you may have gotten batteries for free from someone that was trying to dispose of them.

You could take them and apply the easy and cheap technology used to recondition them and install them in your solar power system.

You could even afford to get extras to have on hand for when one of your others fails, always good to have a backup. How about locating a battery from a fork lift. This would be a great catch to use for your solar power back up.

These things are very expensive and if you found one that was going to be discarded and got it free or very cheap you would have made out great.

In addition to reconditioning your lead acid type batteries you could also restore other batteries around your house. For example your rechargeable battery for your cordless drill. Have you priced replacements batteries for those things, very expensive.

Reconditioning them back to life would save you big time and you could use it for much longer than its normal lifespan.