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

Hello, how are you doing? Today we are going to do a little experiment and see if we can

revive

this 12 volt car

battery

with some basic household products and by this I mean some baking soda with Epsom

salt

and some distilled water, and here it is exactly. how

dead

is this

battery

, as you can see it is now only 3.95 volts at that voltage, putting a low tester on this battery is practically useless but here it is anyway so a good battery of this style should be here where it says "ok" and when you put it on low charge by pressing this button, it's supposed to go to this green area and show you how much cranking amperage it has, but as you can see, it's already in red all the way down here and when you press this it's practically zero, so the first thing we need to do is clean the battery terminals and clean the top of the battery.

If you don't have a battery terminal cleaner, you can always use 400 or 300 grit sandpaper. So in the next steps, we're going to remove these battery cell caps and then we're going to pour out the acid that's in this battery, like this. Make sure you do it in a well ventilated area and we will also use gloves because if the acid gets on your hands. on your skin or even your clothes it will burn and it won't be pleasant and on this battery these caps can be easily removed with just a flat head screwdriver here we go there's one and here's the second one and the next one I'm going to pour the acid that there is in this battery in this plastic container.

I should probably wear long sleeves for this, but you have to work with what you have, so next we're going to get about 10 ounces of baking soda and then we're going to mix that with about 1 gallon of distilled water. Now the best way to mix baking soda with distilled water is to do it in small quantities, just take some distilled water, put it in a container and take some baking soda. and then you have to stir it until it dissolves in the water and then we'll start pouring it in and filling each cell. Make sure you do it very slowly.

Then we put the cell covers back on and then we go. to shake our battery for about 30 seconds, then we remove the lids one more time and then we're going to put the solution into our bucket. Next, you need to mix about 15 oz of Epsom

salt

with about 1 gallon of distilled water. and similar to baking so you want to mix this slowly but you also want to make sure you heat the water that way you can stir this and dissolve the epom salt into the water much easier and then we'll fill. each cell with our Epsom salt and distilled water solution, then we take our charger and we'll trickle charge this battery for about 24 hours on the trickle charge setting.

We will also leave the lids off because sometimes it overflows. There are problems just when the solution heats up it will overflow so you don't want to put the lids on and have build up underneath so again do this in a well ventilated area and also be very careful what you put in while it is charging. As you can see, I have this on the floor, so it's pretty safe here, so it's the next day and it's been about 24 hours since this has been on the charger, so let me show you what we have, as you can see. we got about 11.3 volts, which is a big improvement over where we started, but obviously still not good enough, so what I'm going to do is just put it back on the charger, but also on this battery that we haven't had. overflow problems, but if you have, make sure you refill all of these battery thresholds with distilled water and a little bit of saline and I'm also going to use this newer battery charger just to make sure that our battery charger is not the problem and again We're going to put this on the 2 amp setting or in other words we're going to trickle charge the battery, so it's been another 24 hours since this battery has been on the charger, let's see what we have now this time.

I don't know if you guys can see, but we are having some overflow issues, not much, there is still a lot of solution in the battery, but we have some water coming out of these battery cells. Here's a look at our charger, we agree 100%. to the dial but we still don't have the green light that would indicate that the battery is fully charged but we're going to go ahead and check the voltage on the battery anyway so first we're going to clean the top of our battery we clean it and then we take our multimeter, but make sure that if you lack distilled water to add water to these battery cells, you want to make sure that the illuminated plates that are inside here you can see that they have to cover them with distilled water and they have a saline solution that we did before and this is the voltage we have now, we have 12.43 volts, which is actually pretty good, it should be 12.6, but this multimeter may not be accurate, as some of you may know. each cell in this battery should be 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.

Now even more important than the voltage is how many amps this battery can produce when you press this and put it under load, we'll hold it there for 10 seconds and then take our measurement. It should go down to about 700 amps, which as you can see is the number of cranking ranges for this battery. it's supposed to turn off according to this sticker, okay here we go, all that turns off too much, but anyway let's keep it there, see at least if we can hold that, at least I'd say it's probably around 100 , i guess. 100 amps it's generating and that's 10 seconds so it can generate 100 cranking amps which is pretty low but still a big improvement over where we started but what we can try to do to increase cranking applications What it produces is to perform a cycle. the battery and cycling the battery is basically draining the battery and then recharging it.

Now you can do this by just putting the battery in the car and then turning on the headlights, but I have this spare headlight lying around so I'm just going to use this and you know what I'm actually going to hook up the second headlight as well just so this go faster and then we'll wait until the voltage reaches around 10 1/2 to 11 volts. Well, it's been a few hours and we're actually close to 10 volts, but that's okay, so we'll just remove them and then plug the battery charger back in and charge it for about 24 hours. again or until we have a green light here that says our battery is fully charged so this time it's been about 10 hours and I think we're done but I say that because not only is the D at 100% but we also have a light green which tells us that our battery is fully charged again, we have a little overflow problem here, so next I'm going to quickly clean this up, so let's first check our voltage now, this time we have a hold of 12.66%. stable there and it's not going to show us that it's bad, it shows us that it's weak but it's not getting much better and there you have it folks, so if the question is can you

revive

a

dead

battery with a little Epsom salt and baking soda? sodium the answer is maybe you can do it now we start with a really good battery.

This battery was again at 3.95 volts with no amps after we treated it with baking soda and then Epsom salt. up to 12.6 volts and I'm wondering if that will maintain that voltage overnight, although I'll test it tomorrow and note it in the video when I post the video on YouTube, but I can see it helping a battery that's a little better. Maybe you have a battery sitting in the back of your garage that puts out only eight or 9 volts and you may know that you do this. I can see it becoming a good battery, but we. I don't know because I don't have one of those to test, but if I ever do, I'll make a follow-up video and we'll know for sure if this can help with that battery.

It would be nice again, that being said. I hope you enjoyed seeing this little experiment I did. If you did, please like it and also consider checking out some of my other videos. I'll post it on the screen as video links so you can click on them. thanks for seeing us until next time