Is it Possible to Revive a Dead Battery with Epsom Salt - See For Yourself

hey how's it going duty sers today we're going to do a bit of an experiment and see whether we can revive this 12vt car battery with some basic household products and by that I mean some Epsom salt baking soda and some distilled water and here's exactly how dead this battery is as you can see it's only got 3.95 volts now with that voltage putting a low tester on this battery is pretty much pointless but here it is anyway so a good battery this style would need to be here where it says okay and when you put it on the under load by pressing this button it's supposed to go to this green area and show you the amount of uh cranking amp it has but as you can see it's already in the red all the way down here and when you press this it goes pretty much zero so first things first we're going to clean our battery terminals and wipe down the top of our battery and if you don't have a battery terminal cleaner you can always just use some uh 400 or 300 grit sandpaper so in the next few steps we're going to be removing these uh battery cell caps and then pouring out the acid that's in this battery so make sure you this in a well ventilated area and also we gloves cuz if the acid gets on your hands on your skin or even on your clothes it's going to burn through it and it's not going to be pleasant and on this battery these caps can easily be removed with just a flathead screwdriver there we go there's one and here's the second one and next we're going to dump the acid that's in this battery into this plastic container I should be probably wearing long sleeves for this but you got to work with what you got all righty so next we're going to get about 10 oz of baking soda and then we're going to mix that with about 1 gallon of distilled water now the best way to mix the baking soda with the distilled water is to just uh do it in small amounts just get some distilled water put it in a container get some baking soda and then you want to stir it until it dissolves into the water and next we're going to start pouring it in and filling each cell make sure you go very slowly [Applause] all right next we put our cell caps back on and then we're going to shake around our battery for about 30 seconds or so after that we remove our caps once again and then we're going to DP the solution in our bucket next you want to mix about 15 oz of Epsom salt with about 1 gallon of distilled water and similar to the baking so that you want to mix this slowly but also you want to make sure you heat up the water that way you can uh stir this and dissolve the epom salt into the water a lot easier and next we'll fill up each cell with our Epsom salt and distilled water [Applause] solution next we grab our charger and we're going to slow charge this battery for about 24 hours on the slow charge setting we're also going to leave the Caps off because sometimes you have some overflow problems just when the solution heats up it's going to overflow so you don't want put the caps on and have any buildup underneath it so again do this in a well ventilated area and also be very mindful of whatever you put this over while it's charging as you can see I got this on the floor so it's pretty safe here all right so it's the next day and it's been about 24 hours since this thing's been on the charger so let me show you what we have all right so as you can see we got about 11.3 volts which is a huge improvement from where we started but it's obviously still not good enough so what I'm going to do is just to put it back on the charger but also on this this battery we haven't had any overflow issues but if you have make sure you refill these uh all these battery Sills with distilled water and your some salt solution and I'm also going to use this newer battery charger just to make sure our battery charger is not the problem and again we're going to put this on the 2 Amp setting or other words trickle charge the battery all right so it's been another 24 hours since this battery's been on the charger let's see what we have now now this time on I don't know if you guys can see but we are having some overflow issues not a whole lot there's still plenty of uh solution lift in the battery but we do have some uh water coming out of these battery cells here's a look at our charger we're at 100% according to the dial but we still don't have the green light which would indicate this is a battery is completely charged but we're going to go ahead and check our voltage on the battery anyway all right so first we'll wipe the top of our battery get it clean and next we grab our multimeter but make sure if you're missing any distilled water to add water to these battery cells you got to make sure the lit plates that are inside here that you might be able to see they have to be covered with the distilled water and they have some salt solution we made earlier and here's how much voltage we got now we got 12.43 volts which is actually pretty good it should be 12.6 but this multimeter may not be exact as some of you may know each battery cell in this battery should have about 2.1 volts which would add up to 12.6 or well within the margin of error of 12.43 or whatever we just got that now even more important than the voltage is how many amps this battery can put out when we press this and put it under the load we're going to hold it there for 10 seconds and then we're going to take our measurement it should come down to about 700 amps which as you can see it's the amount of cranking gamps this battery is supposed to put out according to this sticker all right here we go all that shut down way too much but anyway we're going to hold it there see at least if we can hold that at least I would say it's probably about 100 I guess 100 amps it's putting out and that's 10 seconds all right so it can put out 100 cranking amps that's pretty low but it's still a huge improvement from where we started but what we can try to do to raise the cranking apps it puts out is to cycle the battery and to cycle the battery is to basically drain the battery and then to recharge it now you can do this by just sticking the battery in the car and then turning on your headlights but I got this spare headlight laying around so I'm just going to use this and you know what actually I'm just going to attach the second headlight as well just to make this go faster and then we're just going to wait until the voltage reaches a about 10 1/2 to 11 volt all right so it's been a good few hours and we're actually down to closer to 10 volts but it's okay so we're just going to take these off and then reattach our battery charger and we're going to charge this for about 24 hours again or until we get a green light here saying our battery is fully charged all right so it's been about 10 hours actually this time and I believe we're done but I say that because not only the D at 100% but we also have a green light telling us our battery is fully charged again we got a bit of an overflow issue here so next I'm just going to quickly clean this up all right so first let's check out our voltage all right now this time we got 12.66% holding steady there and it's not going into the to the showing us that it's bad well shows us that it's weak but it's not improving much and there you have it folks so if the question is whether you can revive a dead battery with some uh Epsom salt and baking soda the answer is maybe you just might be able to now we started with a really good battery this this battery again had 3.95 volts spting out no amps at all after we treated it with the baking soda soda and then the Epsom salt now we are up to 12.6 volts and I'm wondering whether that's going to retain that voltage overnight though I'll uh I'll put I'll test this tomorrow and make a note of it in the video when I put out the video on YouTube but I can see it helping a battery that's some better sh maybe you got a battery that's in the back of your garage putting out only maybe eight or 9 volts and it's can you know you do this I can see that turning into a good battery but we won't know cuz I don't have one of those around to test but if I ever do I'll make a followup video and we'll know for sure whether this can help with that battery uh be good again so with that said hope you enjoyed watching this little experiment I did uh if you did please give it a thumbs up and also consider checking out some of my other videos I'll put it up on the screen as video links so you can just click on it all right thanks for watching see you next time [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Ratchets And Wrenches

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Id: AcE7ErS-Pl8

Length: 8min 46sec (526 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 26 2015