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Originally Posted by brucepick
I think it's quite possible the mostly discharged battery will soak up as many amps as the alternator can deliver.
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Yes they will. Lead acid (flooded, gel and AGM) will do this but a lot of times they are so massive the battery can handle hard fast charging for a few minutes to replenish the drain from start up.
They cant take that for extended amounts of time repeatedly.
Need to slow it down a little.
LiFePO4 packs are even worse about soaking up all the alt power they can get, due to low internal resistance compaired to lead acid.
Uncontrolled charging is not recomended. Slower is better (less really is more in this case).
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