Dead battery fix & off season maintenance.
Tried riding my bike this spring on a 4 year old battery. It went about a mile. UGH. I'm adding up the dollar signs in my mind...
This happened to me before, and I disposed of the battery (partially because LiFePo4 was a boat anchor). But this battery is too nice to throw out.
I looked into purchasing a new one and test procedures to find out what cells were bad, but...
I managed to bring it back to life by charging it for a month (not sure how long it took). My thought that by leaving it charging for a long time, that it would eventually balance out the cells as the weak cells would continuously get topped off until they were out of the red zone.
That of course brings to mind the question of what to do with a battery in the off season? If a cell gets too far into a state of discharge, it may never come back.
What do you do to keep your battery healthy when not using it for an extended time?
This happened to me before, and I disposed of the battery (partially because LiFePo4 was a boat anchor). But this battery is too nice to throw out.
I looked into purchasing a new one and test procedures to find out what cells were bad, but...
I managed to bring it back to life by charging it for a month (not sure how long it took). My thought that by leaving it charging for a long time, that it would eventually balance out the cells as the weak cells would continuously get topped off until they were out of the red zone.
That of course brings to mind the question of what to do with a battery in the off season? If a cell gets too far into a state of discharge, it may never come back.
What do you do to keep your battery healthy when not using it for an extended time?