Battery charging question
Can a Marine "No Maintenance" battery be charged ?
I just bought a small pop up and we won't be using it till October.
the battery is a Marine sealed "no maintenance one".
I decided to keep it in my shop and once a month put it on my charger.
This morning I tried it for the first time and after I made the connections I got a loud pop and smoke came from the charger. Naturally I immediately unplug and disconnected everything.
On my charger I can chose "wet", "AGM" or "Gel.
I have always used "wet" so that is what I chose.
Thinking I fried the charger, I tried it on a small 12 volt battery from my ATV and to my surprise it worked fine.
I check the Marine battery and I am getting 11.5 volts on my meter
Can any one explain why I would have gotten what appeared to be some sort of short ?
Jack L
I just bought a small pop up and we won't be using it till October.
the battery is a Marine sealed "no maintenance one".
I decided to keep it in my shop and once a month put it on my charger.
This morning I tried it for the first time and after I made the connections I got a loud pop and smoke came from the charger. Naturally I immediately unplug and disconnected everything.
On my charger I can chose "wet", "AGM" or "Gel.
I have always used "wet" so that is what I chose.
Thinking I fried the charger, I tried it on a small 12 volt battery from my ATV and to my surprise it worked fine.
I check the Marine battery and I am getting 11.5 volts on my meter
Can any one explain why I would have gotten what appeared to be some sort of short ?
Jack L
