Battery life and restoration have become increasingly important. The freight cost of shipping dead and permanently damaged batteries back for maintenance and replenishing customers with replacements is prohibitiv. The normal lead based battery charging and discharging cycle How and why batteries experience sulphation. If a battery is left discharged for an extended period of time, the sulphation resulting from a normal discharge continues to progress Instead of the sulphation forming fine particles, it begins to form hard crystals on the p. As noted before, sulphation is a normal effect of the discharge process. At the end of the discharge, both plates have been transformed to lead sulphate (PbSO4) During a normal recharge, the chemical process is revers. If the lead sulphate has formed hard crystals on the plates, normal recharging or equalization is not feasible. The crystals are a very poor electrical conductor and, as a result, the battery can conduct only a minute amount o. The natural or resonance frequency of the crystalline growth on the plates is 2-10Mhz A desulphation device generates high frequency signals in this range to break down the sulphur crystals that have formed on the plates by i.