Battery life in Arizona

A couple of decades ago, plain house-brand aspirin would bring a flooded cell battery back from the dead. It had to be the super-cheap kind of aspirin, one tablet per cell, then topped off with distilled water. Aspirin is a mild acid.

So this one time . . . a coworker made the aspirin suggestion to the office idiot. You know the guy. The one who would damage the copier so badly when clearing a single-sheet jam that it would be down for a week waiting on a part from Atlanta. So the office idiot storms back in the next morning, angrily saying that the aspirin idea not only didn't work, it ruined his battery. Coworker asked what kind of aspirin he used. Well, he didn't have any aspirin, so he used Tylenol.

Add me to the curiosity list about the magic dust, even though I use AGM batteries. I used to use Optimas until they moved manufacturing to Mexico and their quality tanked. Now, I use what I use.

 

Here is a link to the magic dust I used. Batteries are currently 7 years old. I bought the packets.
https://www.batterychem.biz/batterychem7.html

 

I'm headed on a different path, I purchased the super cheapest Wally battery and am running a NOCO 5 amp full charge overnight cycle on it every other month to do the de-sulfurization of the plates. Somebody bump this thread in 5 years to check on my success or I'll report a failure if shorter than 5 years. If I remember.

 

That age of battery in Phx is pretty impressive. The magic dust will be the next route taken.

 

I installed a Duralast 26F AGM in 08/2020. Replaced it this past May. So what's that, 44 months by my reckoning? It hadn't yet died but Autozone check showed it was getting close.

 

Ya done well.