Clicking sound with trickle charger
I keep the battery of my Ford E-350 based Pleasure Way plugged in to a trickle charger when it's in storage. I noticed a regular clicking sound that I believe is electrically related. It seems to cl...
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jjson775 wrote:
so I started using the trickle charger.
I hope others benefited from this lively discussion.
Apparently YOU haven't.....because you are still talking about a "trickle charger" which can actually be harmful over long periods of time; sometimes even more than just letting them sit.
YOU NEED A SMALL, SMART, AUTOMATIC TENDER TYPE CHARGER......not something that is properly labeled as a trickle charger.
AND......3 week is NOT a long period of time for it to just sit without attention. If the battery shows a significant amount of discharge during that time then there is something wrong that needs to be located and fixed. OR you just simply need to disconnect the battery. Over a period as short as 3 weeks, a charger is NOT NEEDED. It just is not....or maybe more properly, it should not be.
Given the right kind of charger it won't hurt anything though and if it has a reasonable charge to start with it should not be necessary to disconnect the battery. IF....you have a parasitic loss that is more than a small battery tender can keep up with, you have a serious problem that needs to be addressed. Telling people otherwise is not doing them any favors.
