[PUP] Pulse Tech

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----- Original Message ----- 
> Gregory is contradicting the matrix on his own website and my personal
> experience. They make a unit which I attached to the battery posts of
> my car battery and is powered by the battery. It continues to function 
> when
> the engine (alternator) is running and has done its job in extending the
> life of the battery.> Ron Rogers


REPLY
Ron  have you looked at the Solargizer product from Pulsetech?
This is yet another product which is advertised as being permanently 
installed  and used in conjunction with an external charger source. In most 
cases being an engine driven alternator.
Illustrations in their newsletter being pictures of ambulances and fire 
trucks, not to mention Rv parked in camps  for weeks or even months on end.

It is a little photocell panel wired to the Power Pulse. The idea being this 
small charge from a solar panel is sufficient to erplace the small amount 
use by the Pulsetech circuit  itself.  For a trailer or RV  that is often 
parked semi permanently in a remote place  away from  any utility power, 
this makes good sense.
I have two Power Pulse for regular maintenance of wired in  batteries. One 
Redi Pulse for recovery of dead batteries. Another competitive brand  for 
maintenance of a house bank that is on float charge with the emergency power 
inverter and a Solargizer for use on a trailer not powered  up or conaining 
a charger.

When I  do a battery  ercovery I first condition the dead battery for a few 
days. Then I connect a True Charge 40 to  the battery to se if it will take 
a charge.  I leave the RediPulse still connected.  Often no charge current 
is indicated at first but  after another day it slowly increases.  Even 
badly sulfated batteries  will show a charge going into the battery after a 
week or two of this treatment.  If the battery is the flooded kind I may 
also hit it with an equalize charge from the TC40+.
The big L16  are about 10 years old and were abandoned outdoors and left 
frozen for  at least one winter.  It  has never fully recovered but it now 
does hold a charge for a while and deliver power to a 2kW inverter for a 
couple of hours.  Two  batteries were new in 2004 but then sat in an unused 
truck for a year or 18 months.  The rest of the batteries  are of 
undetermined aged. Could be six or could be as much as twelve years. No date 
code found.
So far none of these Pulsetech devices have shown  any sign of being damaged 
by being hooked in parallel with an external charger.

If I had to leave something of mine in storage for months on end I 
definitely would install a product like the Solargizer.  You do have to 
start with the battery fully charged.  but you can expect to return  and 
find the bateries ready to go.
The BC distributor used to manage a log sort yard for  a big company. He 
said it would cost him  $1000 to helicopter in a mechanic  plus a new 8D 
battery to service a fire pump  that had been left in a lumber camp over the 
winter.  He started  by looking for a solution. He ended up  becoming the 
distributor for BC and quitting his day job. He also said  that ever since 
he began  fitting Pulsetech to company equipment they never suffered a "no 
start"  situation  due to flat batteries. The initial sucess  was good 
enough  to justify  rewriting company  service instructions. Now whenever 
any  equipment comes in for major overhaul they add a Pulsetech,.  This 
included fire pumps, buldozers, trucks,  yard tugs,  and  long haul sea 
going tugs.

Arild