Charging the Lifelines questions
As you all know, anything more than clipping the auto charger onto a battery is well above my pay grade, so I have some questions. For the regular charge before the conditioning charge, the Lifelin...
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After seeing some of the charging threads on here, 14.3v just seemed low. The conditioning/ equalization voltage is 15,6v and the recovery, that's just plain scary. lol
Charge at a constant current of 5 % of rated (20 hour)capacity until the voltage reaches 15.6 volts (7.8 volts for a 6 volt battery), then continue charging at this rate for an additional 4 hours. Note that the charging voltage may get as high as 18.0 volts (9.0 volts for a 6 volt battery)
, so the power supply must be capable of outputting this level to maintain constant current. This constant current charge may take 16 to 20 hours.
After seeing some of the charging threads on here, 14.3v just seemed low. The conditioning/ equalization voltage is 15,6v and the recovery, that's just plain scary. lol
Charge at a constant current of 5 % of rated (20 hour)capacity until the voltage reaches 15.6 volts (7.8 volts for a 6 volt battery), then continue charging at this rate for an additional 4 hours. Note that the charging voltage may get as high as 18.0 volts (9.0 volts for a 6 volt battery)
, so the power supply must be capable of outputting this level to maintain constant current. This constant current charge may take 16 to 20 hours.
