I guess I'll never know if it works or not as I'm not going through all that work to end up with a battery of questionable reliability to save $70. The guy was actually funny. He was actually surprised when it started the car. Put that battery through a load test and then come back with a video. Like the Shark said, I'M OUT.
the chemistry of what he is doing may work in a pinch, but most of us in the modern world, especially if we have toys like boats and such, are never in pinch like that... and im sure the chemistry is NOT a long term fix for the battery.
like edison found out while he was developing the lightbulb, some things that may work for the purpose will be overshadowed by the thing that works the Best for the application....
we dont really know what the condition of the battery was BEFORE he decided to convert it, other than it was severely discharged.... but that doesnt mean the battery was ruined. I would bet that other than it being badly discharged, there was nothing more wrong with it than 60% of the batteries currently in service thruout the world.
before he attempted his experiment, his charger probably wouldnt kick in to recharge it because it wouldnt recognize there was anything hooked up to it that needed to be charged.
this happens with almost all modern chargers, and the way to patch it so it will charge is to connect a good battery to the discharged one to give it 12 volts, and then the charger will sense the voltage and begin to push current.... after about 15 minutes the good battery can be disconnected and the charger will continue to push into the bad one...
but the man in the video would never have known this as he wasnt even really sure how his charger worked.... but he did have some measure of success in his own little frozen world, and that seemed to give him a warm and fuzzy feeling that only he could feel
