A few years back, I had this great idea that I was going to home-brew an electric two-wheeled vehicle from the ground up.  This turned out to be a somewhat ill-conceived project, but a great learning experience. As far as the finished product, I ended up with a not-terribly-rigid frame that wasn’t particularly straight, and [...]

Sulfation  is the buildup of a sulfur compound on the lead plates of a lead acid battery. (Those of you who know anything about batteries are probably appalled by this description, but it’s adequate for our purposes). A desulfator, then, is a device for reversing this process, putting the sulfur back into solution with the [...]