THERMOIL is especially built to obtain a prolonged durability, increased power, indisputable security and a superior performance in hot or cold weather.

THE NEED FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY

Owners and operators of all types of equipment know how important it is to be able to obtain maximum efficiency. The strength and performance of the equipment’s battery play a key role in determining the duration of its operating time. The ideal battery would be one that produces and maintains the high power levels needed to deliver peak performance.

The two most common types of batteries used today are the maintenance-free lead calcium and the low maintenance lead antimony battery. Both batteries are ideal in certain applications, but neither battery alone can fulfill the rugged demands placed on them by equipment used today.

The calcium battery uses less water than the lead antimony battery, however, it cannot be used successfully in deep discharge applications where it is prone to capacity loss. Breakdown of the grid-paste interface occurs when a calcium battery is discharged repeatedly, resulting in battery capacity losses of 40% or more. Additional maintenance expenses are incurred as a result of the battery's premature failure.

The lead antimony battery will withstand repeated charge/discharge cycles and will generally accept charge more readily than a calcium battery. However, the higher charge acceptance of the antimony battery causes increased water consumption and the resultant external corrosion problems associated with the sulfuric acid fumes being carried out for the battery in the evaporation process. If the lead antimony battery is not properly maintained, battery trays and cables will require regular replacement due to corrosion and boil over problems.

To achieve longer battery life, the lead antimony battery requires frequent water additions to maintain proper electrolyte levels and the corrosion must be regularly removed from posts, cables, hold-downs, and battery trays.

All types of equipment require the proper battery to minimize downtime and optimize profitable operating time. Battery problems cost the operator valuable time and money. Thanks to the latest in modern technology, a product called THERMOIL has been developed to reduce, if not completely solve today's battery problems.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

“The Secret to longer battery life revealed”

What is Thermoil made up of and how does it improve a battery?

Thermoil is patented and is composed of several different blends of oil consisting of different ingredients, an anti-foaming agent that is blended together to make the final product called Thermoil® or often referred to as Thermoil Oil. When this special blend of oil is added to a battery it will increase battery life, eliminate corrosion, greatly reduce water consumption, reduce the risk of explosion, reduce the toxic odor of electrolyte and is resistant to very cold and hot weather.

How does it stop corrosion, reduce water consumption and explosion?

The oil is lighter than acid & water so it will always float on top of the surface. When you discharge and charge a battery you will have all these little bubbles coming up to the top of the battery. When these bubbles reach the top of the surface, they then break up violently creating the gassing and the misting affect. Even though most of the water evaporates out, the bubbling process does atomize tiny droplets of acid, some of which settle on the top of the battery. This moisture attracts and holds onto airborne dirt, which eventually conducts power between the battery posts, corroding and electroplating them away.

The acid film also directly attacks your battery bolts and cables. When Thermoil® is added to the battery, these bubbles which are coming to the top of the surface reach the oil layer and have to work its way thru this layer of oil. What happens is this oil layer will slowly let these bubbles thru which will then break up gently on the surface eliminating the misting affect and the acid film from being carried out the top of the battery.

Since this mist is not coming out of the top of the battery you reduce the water consumption. When your battery tops stay dry (because the oil also prevents this acid film from being carried out the top of the battery) it eliminates the corrosion. Because the oil slows down the gassing process you will not have as many gases present at one time, which in turn reduces the explosion factor. .

Does the oil give the battery longer life?

Yes and no. It will not give it any more cycles. Some batteries are manufactured to get 300 cycles and some say 400 battery cycles. All batteries are different. The more expensive batteries usually have more life cycles. You get what you pay for. But, if you took two identical batteries and added the oil to one and not the other and failed or just forgot to check the water and clean the corrosion, the oil battery would probably last 2 to 3 times longer because the other battery would run out of water.

I should say a battery or cables that don’t have corrosion already. Corrosion is like cancer, once it starts it keeps spreading. So if you add Thermoil® to a battery that already has corrosion, Thermoil® will not stop it, but if you add Thermoil® to a new or used battery that doesn’t have corrosion it will keep it that way.

Can Thermoil® be added to any battery?

Yes, any battery that has caps on it where you can add water. Thermoil® mostly benefits the lead antimony battery and not the calcium battery. Calcium batteries are sealed because they don’t gas much and use much water, but you cannot deep discharge a battery like this because it will only charge back up about 98% of its capacity.

You deep discharge it again and then it will charge up the 98% of the 98%. When you do this over and over in a short time, your battery will only be about 75% of what it was when it was new. This type of battery is fine if you use it just for starting say your car or boat because the alternator will charge it back up right away.

But this is the worst battery to use if you have any accessories that you use when the engine and alternator are not running. You want to use a lead antimony battery. Calcium is a mineral and antimony is a metal. The more antimony you have in your battery the more you can deep discharge it and the quicker it will charge back up and it is usually better for vibration.

This is why golf cart batteries, forklift batteries, solar batteries etc, have twice the antimony as a regular deep cycle battery because they are made for a much harsher use. The disadvantage of having more antimony results in more gassing, more water consumption, more corrosion and a greater explosive factor. This is why Thermoil® was made! It will eliminate or reduce these problems.

If I buy a bottle of oil how do I know how much oil to add to each cell? And do I have to remove any acid first?

Each bottle of oil contains 12 ounces and the ounces are clearly printed on the bottle so you know how much oil you are adding to each cell. On the back of the bottle there are written instructions that tell you how many ounces of oil to add to each cell per type of battery. One 12 oz bottle of oil will treat most batteries (12-volt group 24, 27, 31 etc is 2 oz per cell, 6-volt golf cart battery is 4 oz per cell) unless you get into the bigger batteries such as a 4D or 8 D.

They take 5 oz per cell. The bigger the battery the more oil that is needed. On the other hand the smaller the battery the less oil that is needed. A lawn mower or motorcycle battery only requires 1/2 oz per cell. As to the question of do you have to remove any acid first? The answer is usually not in the bigger batteries but yes in the smaller batteries.

The simplest and fastest way, which takes about two minutes, is to take a hydrometer and suck some acid out of each cell and put it in some sort of clean plastic container. Now add the correct amount of Thermoil® to each cell as stated on the back of the bottle.

After the oil is added take the small amount of acid that you removed from each cell and add it back to each cell until you bring the top of the oil to about 1/8 inch below the vent tube well. That is all there is to it. If you would have any remaining acid left over be sure to dispose of it properly. You should always wear eye protection and rubber gloves when servicing a battery because of the sulfuric acid.

Is Thermoil® Guaranteed?

Yes, for the life of your battery. If after you purchase this product, you feel for any reason at anytime, that Thermoil® fails to live up to their promises or even if it does and you just changed your mind simply return it to us, we will immediately and cheerfully give you a 100% refund of the purchase price no questions asked.

I have seen a battery additive called O.O.B. Is this the same as Thermoil®?

No, not even close. O.O.B (Original Oil Battery) is now what the original Thermoil was. Don’t get me wrong, O.O.B. will eliminate corrosion, reduce water consumption etc. but if you deep discharge your battery a lot O.O.B. will shorten your battery life considerably (More than 50%) but only when you deep discharge it. These tests were preformed by New Castle Battery Manufacturing Company.

The test procedure was: New Castle Battery Company took batteries from the same run of production and added the oil (the original Thermoil which was red in color) in half of the batteries. The batteries were then discharged to 10.5 volts at 25 amps. The batteries are then recharged to 120% of the amp hours removed. The test is terminated when the voltage reaches 10.5 volts before half of its rated capacity.

The batteries are then cycled again to confirm the results. Since these test results confirmed that the original Thermoil oil (red in color) drastically reduced cycle life under this type of test, we had to come up with a new and improved oil which would not shorten the cycle life of a battery under this type of test for New Castle to continue to work with us.

After two years of aggressively working with Kendall Oil Company (now called American Refining Company) and New Castle Battery testing the oil, we finally found the right ingredients. This is greatly improved oil that now is patented and the color of the oil is blue.

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