[Elecraft] K2 - Battery needs CPR

[Tom McCulloch]

Hi all,


I know, I know... I should have used a trickle charger on my K2's battery 
like the one Don, W3FPR talks about at:  http://w3fpr.qrpradio.com/index.htm 
. But I didn't.  Before I take the easy way out and order a new battery from 
Elecraft (only 30 bucks, so that's not too bad), does anyone have any ideas 
to bring my old battery back to life?

The problem was that I went QRT for a year or so and left the battery 
unattended and now it won't hold a charge.

On the bright side, I'm now building an SLA trickle charger similar to the 
A&A Engineering one that Don mentions...there was a QST article on it a 
while back...so that's been fun, but it's not finished yet and my battery 
needs mouth to mouth...

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom
WB2QDG
K2 #1103