Yes I have used it in my boat. It did work and allowed me to use the batteries for another year. I use it now as a prevenative on a older battery. I tried it in the motorhome and it was too late for those batteries and I only got a few months of usage until they needed to be replaced.
I wouldn't use it until/unless all else failed to improve the battery performance. A battery charger with a good de-sulfating and equalization cycle is the best cure. If the battery has been mistreated and the electrolyte is weak or diluted, then you may get some benefit from this snake oil treatment. JMHO
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Not that particular brand as I couldn't find it in the time I had. Found some at Harbor Freight, put it in in 2004 and the batteries are still doing fine. I thought I was going to have to replace the 4 Interstate U-2200's till I put the solution in, now, four years later they still work fine. In fact they seem to last as long as when new.
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I've used it in a few batteries, but not that brand. You may get a year or more more use out of them. I posted about it on here a couple of years ago and got several "your stupid" comments. Everyone of the people said it's impossible for the chemical make-up of the stuff to extend the life of batteries. I just keep on using it stupid or not. I have one lawn tractor battery that should last 2 years. It's on it's 8th year. I also have a 3 cylinder diesel tractor battery that is 10 years old.
AND no I don't work for the company or any other company that sells it.
I believe its main ingredient is cadmium sulfate. They also add some cobalt sulfate, I think. My limited knowledge of chemistry tells me that the cobalt sulfate is not necessary. Somewhere, I have the MSDS. Cadmium sulfate was the ingredient in VX6, which did a good job for me over a lot of years.
Desulfation is pretty well accepted as a means of prolonging battery life or giving some new life to badly sulfated batteries. There are several ways to desulfate. Equalizing is such a forceful charge that it breaks down some of the lead sulfates on the plates. Electronic desulfators, either separate or built into chargers, do this with an AC component introduced into the DC current, or a separate AC current. Both cadmium sulfate and EDTA are chemical means of breaking down lead sulfate. So is magnesium sulfate, which we more commonly know as Epsom salts.
If any of you are regular readers of Home Power Magazine, there have been some practical tests of EDTA with very good results. No snakes were squeezed in those tests.
All are legitimate. None are magic. None are snake oil. However, a properly cared for battery which is properly charged and cycled doesn't need much desulfating. Use 'em or lose 'em.
In my mind, there are some good and legitimate products that are over-promoted and hyped to the point that a whole lot of people automatically wave the snake oil flag. For this situation, the marketers should be denounced, not the product.
That said, I haven't tried it, but might buy some with my next order from JC Whitney.
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