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Keith_and_Lu
Explorer
Oct 31, 2018

New Batteries. What charger type / characteristics?

We are about to go out for the last time this year. We have been thinking about the new batteries (second use) and the type of charger we will need when home. The old charger sounds dreadful when pl...
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Veebyes
Explorer II
Nov 03, 2018
Leaving everything connected & trusting the converter or battery to take care of things for weeks, months even, unattended is just fine till something fails.

Seen it happen. A boat with 4 very expensive 8D gel cell batterys left plugged into shore power & unattened for a few months. The equally very expensive multi stage charger went crazy & did not drop & stay in maintenance mode.

The owner eventually came back to find 4 $500 batterys cooked. An expensive lesson trusting a charger to do its job unattended.

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