In article , Larry
wrote:

Me either! Let's test it on your batteries. Put half the regular caps
back on half the cells and leave these wondrous gifts from God on the rest.
See if there's any difference in water usage.....It's a fair test.

--
Larry

Been there, done that... HydroCaps do work as advertised. The cataylst
is a small platinum foil plate, that causes the Hydrogen and Oxygen to
recombine and fall back into the Battery Cell. Used my 800 Amp/Hr
24Vdc Bank of L16's to run the test. Two strings of 4, in parallel, one
sting with regular caps and one string with HydroCaps. Watered the
Banks on about a 4 to one basis over a year. Banks cycled down to 80%
capacity, on a twice a day (24Hrs) Basis, with my Trace 4024 doing the
charging and being the load. After the end of a year, I bought another
16 Hydrocaps, and that bank lasted 10 years and still had 75% capacity
when they were replaced. Never had as good of service since.


Bruce in alaska
--
add a 2 before @

In article , Larry
wrote:

"Rusty" wrote in
:

Hydrocaps actually work. I check my batteries on a regular basis, but
hardly ever have to add any water. They should, however, be removed if
you're going to equalize the cells. The excess hydrogen causes them to
get hot.


Me either! Let's test it on your batteries. Put half the regular caps
back on half the cells and leave these wondrous gifts from God on the rest.
See if there's any difference in water usage.....It's a fair test.

We're doing just that, although it's two different batteries. The usual
ones need a top off every once in a while, the one with some sort of
tech up there hasn't yet, and it's the primary bank, worked hard every
weekend.

(From that experience, I'm not going with WalMart-type batteries again.
They're too expensive.)

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html
Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

Larry;

I've already done that. The 750 amp-hour 24 volt main system of Trojan
industrial cells is charged by a Trace SW4024 inverter/charger. Went two
years without HydroCaps and added at least some water every month. Changed
to HydroCaps and now I only add a little bit after every six to eight
months. Right now the last time I added water was almost nine months ago and
they're still full. Batteries are showing no signs of losing capacity and
the tops are always clean.

Rusty

"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Rusty" wrote in
:

Hydrocaps actually work. I check my batteries on a regular basis, but
hardly ever have to add any water. They should, however, be removed if
you're going to equalize the cells. The excess hydrogen causes them to
get hot.


Me either! Let's test it on your batteries. Put half the regular caps
back on half the cells and leave these wondrous gifts from God on the
rest.
See if there's any difference in water usage.....It's a fair test.

--
Larry

Larry;

I've already done that. The 750 amp-hour 24 volt main system of Trojan
industrial cells is charged by a Trace SW4024 inverter/charger. Went two
years without HydroCaps and added at least some water every month. Changed
to HydroCaps and now I only add a little bit after every six to eight
months. Right now the last time I added water was almost nine months ago and
they're still full. Batteries are showing no signs of losing capacity and
the tops are always clean.

Rusty

"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Rusty" wrote in
:

Hydrocaps actually work. I check my batteries on a regular basis, but
hardly ever have to add any water. They should, however, be removed if
you're going to equalize the cells. The excess hydrogen causes them to
get hot.


Me either! Let's test it on your batteries. Put half the regular caps
back on half the cells and leave these wondrous gifts from God on the
rest.
See if there's any difference in water usage.....It's a fair test.

--
Larry

What do you guys think about MegaPulse?
http://www.megapulse.net/

Curious, Len.

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:36:52 GMT, (Mic) wrote:

http://store.solar-electric.com/hydrocaps.html
"A Hydrocap is a catalytic gas recombiner.....
------------------snip-------------

Len wrote in
:

http://www.megapulse.net/

Vector 1093A is a 2/10/20/40 amp computerized battery charger with
switching power supply. It has a pulse-type better reconditioner built
into it that actually does rejuvenate an old battery back to life. It
takes 24 hours of its cycling to complete, when its computer shuts the
process down automatically. As a charger, it is great UNLESS the battery
is just dead dead, at which time it refuses to start charging it. To
charge those, I put "Old Reliable", my 10A Shumaker SCR charger on it for a
couple of hours to give it a starting kick, then the Vector can complete
the job....after stupid me left the interior lights on in the car...grrr.

You can buy the smaller Vector 2/10/35A without the rejuvenator from Waste
Marine for $130 or $140....or you can get this better model from any
WalMart for $89 on the battery rack in the auto department (and lie to your
mates telling them you got it at Waste Marine..(c.

I'm sure Megapulse is just a lot smaller pulse charger. The Vector is
quite large with very large cables to handle 40A reliably. It has
automatic fan cooling for its electronics.

--
Larry