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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BFL13 wrote:jrnymn7 wrote:
"It had been sitting at 4.1 amps, 15.5 volts for 2 1/2 hours now."
What were the S.G. readings doing during this time?
This procedure can take hours and hours. Eventually the amps will start to taper from 4.1 and after a while (more hours) it will say FUL. I usually run a second Equalize before I hit my "baseline SG" of near 1.300 on my pair of Interstate GC2 XHDs (now four years old)
I hadn't taken into account the voltage is a little low; not to mention the current. I can see how it could take a couple of runs to really get them up. Not a bad approach, either... why rush it?
