Originally Posted by
DarthSensate
SLA's NEED the desulfation/conditioning treatment all the time to counter the continuous sulfation of the lead plates that occurs with normal usage and especially under heavy usage near the current capacity of the cells. I've never understood why so many SLA powered devices don't come with a charger that de-sulfates through the entire cycle. Any charger that doesn't do this leads to premature end of life of all lead acid cells.-DS
Based on my experience over the last few years, I totally agree. At this point I'm going to salvage what I can from the best remaining batteries that I have and keep them on the Ideation OEM charger which provides a continuous charge (the OEM Kung Long batteries lived a long useful life on it).
I have a 12V Battery Minder solar charger that I use to trickle charge and desulphate batteries over time, but that wouldn't work for the bike. It seems like a good product and does appear to recover ill batteries however.