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Old 01-20-2009, 01:13 PM   #18 (permalink)
Christopher Jordan
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Originally Posted by mcmahon.craig View Post
My personal experience is with Soneil chargers. They nominally charge constant-current to 14.4V and then float to 13.8V.
The Sears Diehard charger goes to about 16V then slowly drops to 14.7V for 2 hours, then shuts off. After charging floats to 13.2 - tops! Yesterday 1t stayed at 15V with those confusing computer chargers on-board. Unusual!

Each battery post has about 6 bolt-ons, clips, loose wires, fuses.... Take me an hour to undo everything for a simple daily charge. Multiplied the problem!
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