navti wrote in news:1179938775.316509.214520
@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

Any feedback greatly appreciated.



Toast. They are full of lead sulphate where the plates USED to be. No
amount of wishing or charging are going to make them what you paid for.

Simply return them to the shyster you bought them from and go BUY NEW
BATTERIES...preferrably REAL lead-acid, deep cycle WETCELL batteries.

There is no such thing as a "discharged" lead-acid battery. When they
arrive in that condition they are "DEAD" lead-acid batteries that cannot
be recovered. If you do get some charge into them, the stable lead
sulphate crystals, in this case firmly held against the plates by the
damned gauze so they cannot precipitate away from the plates, will
consume what little acid in the damned guaze that has not been converted
to lead sulphate (lead + H2SO4 = lead sulphate).

The ONLY reason you can recharge a lead-acid battery is because the lead
sulphate IONS have not joined into lead sulphate and crystalized. In
ionic state, electronic force can be applied to make these Ions break
apart and replate the plates. Your plates, already eaten away into lead
sulphate crystals, a very stable crystal that cannot be recovered by
charging, no matter how expensive a charger you buy, have consumed the
majority of their acid load (which is what makes a lead-acid battery
"dead", the lack of acid in solution).

So.....in short......YOU GOT SCREWED WITH SOME OLD BATTERIES SOMEONE
DUMPED.

If he won't rebate your money, be SURE to report his ass to Ebay and vent
your anger on him, publically, on THIS newsgroup and other forums.

Larry
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Pay no attention to those posters telling you you can just charge
them.....You can't.