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nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:06 pm Post subject: Charger needed to revive 18 aH Lead Acid Batteries

If it's 100mAs or less that may just be the ticket to success.



         Yes.



         Just for grins, I took one of the 12a.h. batteries I

         bought from you that has been on a Battery Tender

         for the last several days (green light on, in maintenance

         mode. Fooey, didn't read the float voltage first) and

         hooked it to a 14.6v power supply. Charge current jumped

         to 300mA and over the next 12 minutes it fell to 100mA.



         Another data point. After one hour at 14.6 volts, current

         going into the battery is still about 90mA. This suggests

         to me that the battery has stopped converting incoming

         energy into changes in chemistry and that 100mA may

         indeed be too large a value for marking end-of-absorption-

         charge cycle. The values you deduced for the Chargtek

         device of 200-300 mA may indeed be more practical.

   Bob . . .

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