First time charging new batteries
I just bought a pair of Costco/Interstate 6 volt batteries. On the first two charges, they don't seem to be accepting charge as fast as I expected. They have not gone above 31 amps either time. I a...
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waynefi wrote:15.1 -.4v seems high for charging voltage. Is this charger configurable ?
On my second charge of the new ones, it started at 31 amps at 15.1 volts, started tapering immediately, tapered to 10 amps in an hour and a half, and slowly droped to 5.2 amps at 15.4 volts after 5 hours.
The first charge was even stranger. The batteries each read 6.22 volts when I got them.
Is this a break-in effect of new batteries, or is there something really wrong?
6.22 is not too bad, but you didn't buy a fully charged battery.
There's no break-in I'm aware of. What seems wrong is that high charging voltage.
