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tinnemaha

Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: Central Coast of CA

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: What to do with old batteries?

Listers,



I've replaced w/new the Odyssey PC 535 in my Z-11 supported kitfox.  I'm extremely happy with my airplane, but I abused the battery pretty bad - lost confidence in it when she wouldn't start or even excite the alternator field after 4 weeks of sitting.  Since then it held a trickle charge and worked fine until my new battery came in.



I would think the battery is fine for a motorcycle or another application but can't even give it away on Craig's list.  Any suggestions?  What do you do with your old batteries?



Thanks,



Grant Krueger

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Dale Ensing

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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Location: Aero Plantation Weddington NC

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:13 am Post subject: What to do with old batteries?

Where are you located? I need a  new battery for my motorcycle.

Dale

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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:13 am Post subject: What to do with old batteries?

I put my old Odyssey batteries in riding lawnmowers and my standby generator starting circuit and also in amateur radio field service ("picnic table portable") until they completely give up (which is long after they've spent 2-3 years in the plane, then off to the recyclers.  They have several lives that way.

 

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:00 AM, tinnemaha <tinnemaha(at)hotmail.com (tinnemaha(at)hotmail.com)> wrote:

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 Listers,

 

 I've replaced w/new the Odyssey PC 535 in my Z-11 supported kitfox.  I'm extremely happy with my airplane, but I abused the battery pretty bad - lost confidence in it when she wouldn't start or even excite the alternator field after 4 weeks of sitting.  Since then it held a trickle charge and worked fine until my new battery came in.

  

 I would think the battery is fine for a motorcycle or another application but can't even give it away on Craig's list.  Any suggestions?  What do you do with your old batteries?

 

 Thanks,

 

 Grant Krueger

 

 

 

 

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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:27 am Post subject: What to do with old batteries?

At 10:00 PM 3/23/2008 -0700, you wrote:



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Listers,



I've replaced w/new the Odyssey PC 535 in my Z-11 supported kitfox.  I'm 

extremely happy with my airplane, but I abused the battery pretty bad - 

lost confidence in it when she wouldn't start or even excite the 

alternator field after 4 weeks of sitting.  Since then it held a trickle 

charge and worked fine until my new battery came in.



I would think the battery is fine for a motorcycle or another application 

but can't even give it away on Craig's list.  Any suggestions?  What do 

you do with your old batteries?


	




   If the battery has any usable CAPACITY left, here are

   a couple of things you can do that are outside the normal

   second-life options for batteries pulled from service in

   aircraft:



http://www.aeroelectric.com/Pictures/Battery/Battery_Second_Life.jpg



   The battery the light bulb on it was an instrumentation battery

   that fell to less than 75% of it's new capacity. I had a

   garage sale derelict headlamp bulb. Forget the number but it

   only draws 2.5 amps. I glued it to the top of the battery, added

   a fuse and switch and I've got a big honk'n flashlight that

   will deliver useful light output for more than 8 hours on a

   charge.



   The other battery was new (32 a.h.) about 5 years ago.

   It's got a 300 watt inverter Velcroed to the top and

   a tape-handle. I use it when I need to run my instrumentation

   package in an airplane where access to ship's power is

   hard to get at. It's been deep cycled perhaps a dozen

   times. I cap checked it last week at 8A drain (100W)

   and it's still within a few percent of its new capacity.

   I won't be making a flashlight out of this one soon.



   If I were a betting man, I'd wager that the battery

   you describe is pretty well shot. If it won't crank

   your engine unless it comes off a fresh top-off charge,

   it's internal resistance is too high to be useful

   for anything practical.



   I use the local Batteries-R-Us store to put my

   used up batteries into the recycle stream. If you

   don't have one handy, any store that sells car

   batteries has a scrap-lead pile to which you can

   contribute your dead lead.



   Bob . . .



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