Before you throw out your old car battery, check into how you can recondition it. The new battery you got was surly expensive and it may have died on you at an inconvenient time. If you figure out the other expenses that may have been incurred because it died, aside from the cost of your battery, it can get ridiculous.
Being able to recondition your battery may not have been able to save you from being stranded somewhere, but it would have saved you some money. In fact you could have had a battery on stand by at home that you swap out, then recondition your dead battery to use as a backup.
What is it that makes your battery go bad? There is lead sulfate that is accumulated on the lead plates in a crystallite form. This accumulation will reduce the capacity of the battery over time to the point it will fail. This is known as sulfation and is one of the leading causes of battery failures.
The good thing is that this sulfation can be reversed by reconditioning the battery. An instrument is used to produce a high current pulse through the battery that breaks up and converts the sulfate back to its previous state. Cleaning the plates this way will return most batteries back into a useable battery again.
You could pick up old batteries that no one wants for no cost and recondition them back into usable shape and resell them as reconditioned batteries. You could make some extra cash and your buyers could be saving some money.
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