Posted by John T on November 19, 2011 at 05:09:26 from (173.243.181.15):
In Reply to: Re: Battery question posted by Tom Fleming on November 19, 2011 at 02:51:21:
EXCELLENT concise information, I (too much time spent engineering and lawyering) tend to get too long winded myself lol
Any sustained super high amp super fast charge rate can really damage the plates and/or end up with an accumulation in the bottom of the battery shorting out the cells and/or boil out the electrolyte.
I recently had a truck with a good working battery that had some age on it but still worked fine HOWEVER I left the lights on and it had sat like 4 of 5 days so I charged it butttttttttttt right after that it started loosing charge if it sat for a day or so, an internal bleed off that happened ONLY AFTER that total complete discharge. Oh well nuttin $75 didnt fix grrrrrrrr
Had another one a while back that I set the charger to medium on (had automatic but I set it on override) and went to the house planning to go down and shut it off in 15 minutes buttttttttttt forgot and like an hour later I actually smelled the gas wayyyyyyyyy up at the house maybe 500 feet away,,,,,,,, rushed down there and she was cookin n outgassing n boliing over something awful so I went inside to turn off the breaker NO WAY WAS I GONNA UNHOOK AT THE BATTERY MAKING SPARKS WITH ALL THAT EXPLOSIVE GAS OR EVEN UNPLUG THE CHARGER RIGHT THERE and let it cool off and cleaned things up n topped off the electtrolyte BUT THAT BATERY WAS FLATTER N DEADER THEN A PANCAKE...... I often tell people overcharging a battery can be worse then undercharging
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