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Originally posted by Canted Valve:
No personal experience with these, but this seems to be a professional outfit and there's a lot of info you might find useful. They have an in depth menu of products and information.
http://www.chargingchargers.com/pulsetech.php
Maybe a little insight.. I worked with this company when they were just getting their feet wet in the Army.
I was an Army Warrant Officer in charge of maintenance for several units. One of my teams ran a battery shop where "in the old days" we accepted batteries from the unit and rebuilt them then reissued.
When I took over the shop was not used other than as a place for a few of my soldiers to hide out in.
I started investigating why so many batteries were being replaced and found a lot of perfectly good batteries sitting on pallets. Diagnostics by replacement, that's the way most units performed maintenance. I could spend hours talking about this.
Anyway I recommended we test the batteries on our end before issuing a new one, we cut battery consumption by at least 25% by turning them back to the unit. The the rest of the batteries were taken to the shop to de-sulphate and tested further.
We used equipment from
Pulse Tech They also have a tester that is simple to use and very accurate. My shop saved hundreds of thousand dollars by using this equipment to save batteries. I even set up a mini battery shop for my Armored Bn. in Kosovo to keep our tanks mission capable. At that time dead of winter and equipment sitting unused batteries just died.
I kept a couple of dozen batteries on the pulse equipment at all times.
I have one of their pulse chargers here at home for my use.
Dave
"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." -Thomas Sowell
