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nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:45 am Post subject: With Flooded cells, at what discharge does damage start?

At 10:57 AM 6/15/2020, you wrote:

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		  --> AeroElectric-List message posted by: "bcone1381" <bcone1964(at)gmail.com>



 Vic Syracuse has an article in this months Sport Aviation (June 2020) that deals with Batteries and Alternators.  



 he says not to mistreat a battery by constantly leaving it on a non approved battery tender/charger between flight.  



 Help me understand what an "approved charger" or what to avoid.  Specific products will be good.  May I assume maybe there are different chargers for different battery types?

 	


  What Vic is referring to are 'battery maintainers' . . . which may

  also be a charger but with automatic step-down to a maintenace mode

  when the battery is topped off.



  If the advertising literature for the charger includes the

  word 'maintainer' then it's good to go.  Brands like Battery

  Minder, Battery Tender and Schumacher are several choices

  to consider.



  A battery maintainer holds the voltage on a stored battery

  at JUST ABOVE it's normal resting point. This means that

  very small, self discharge currents flowing INSIDE the

  battery will be supported from OUTSIDE instead of from

  the battery's own resources. It cannot even charge, much

  less overcharge a battery.



 



  



 

 

   Bob . . .

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nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:46 am Post subject: With Flooded cells, at what discharge does damage start?

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		  May I assume maybe there are different chargers for different battery types? 	


   Not really . . . there are some so-called, 'smart

   chargers' with front panel controls suggesting

   different charging modes for AGM, flooded and GEL

   batteries . . . but I've never been able to detect

   any useful differences in their charging protocols.



   If the battery is suited to run in a vehicle, then

   any charger suited to charge vehicle batteries

   is okay. CHARGING is not the critical feature . . .

   its what the charge does AFTER charging is complete

   so that overcharging damage does not occur and

   self-discharge currents are mitigated.



 

   Bob . . .

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