6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge?

Posted by 55 50 Ron on September 14, 2019 at 18:39:05 from (69.24.185.49):

A place where I volunteer has several old tractors with 6 Volt systems with generators that have the batteries removed and placed on trickle chargers during several winter months. These batteries are AC Delco and had dried up this past winter. I haven't checked specs on the trickle chargers and I don't remember their brand right now. I'll have to check those specs, but in the meantime has anyone else experienced trickle chargers drying out batteries. It just happened on 6 V batteries which seems strange to me. We had 12 V batteries on trickle chargers during the same time and they all came out good although the 12s are not AC Delco. Maybe we got a bad batch of AC Delco 6 Vs?

I'm well aware that you can boil batteries dry on big chargers, but I thought the main purpose of trickle chargers is to prevent "boil away"and maintain a trickle current to maintain full charge. Or maybe we have some defective trickle chargers?

Replies:

• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? 2510Paul 11:28:05 09/15/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? Rich'sToys 11:08:37 09/15/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? Janicholson 05:16:03 09/15/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? pinball 04:26:47 09/15/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? MarkB_MI 03:29:00 09/15/19 (2)
  • Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? Geo-TH,In 05:05:50 09/15/19 (1)
    • Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? MarkB_MI 05:57:25 09/15/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? Jeffcat 21:03:45 09/14/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? Steve@Advance 20:35:30 09/14/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? pete 23 20:23:36 09/14/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? Russ from MN 19:39:35 09/14/19 (0)
• Re: 6 V batteries going dry on trickle charge? gene bender 18:58:38 09/14/19 (0)

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