Flooded Batteries on Float
It's been mentioned that flooded batteries just keep accepting amps seemingly forever whereas AGM's will stop accepting amps when they're full. Don't know if it's true or not but I can say that my bat...
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All I know is, way back in the Age of the Dinosaurs when I used good ol' wets and let them sit for days hooked up to a Sears 2 amp trickle charger, the wets would gurgle for ever and the analog ammeter needle would never hit zero. I'd put my ear on the side of the battery case and hear the gurgling and wonder ... WHEN IS IT EVER GOING TO STOP?
Now, at the Dawn of the Lithium Age my AGMs never gurgle and my three-place digital ammeter eventually gets to the place where it thinks that it's reading the same inaccurate zero amps day after day. Maybe my AGMs don't reach a hard stop - maybe they only reach a soft trickle and I don't know it.
Now ... do wets ever reach an accurate hard stop also on bulk charging voltages like my AGMs do ... or do wets gurgle on bulk voltages even if they don't on float voltages? I ask this question because once my AGMs are fully charged, they don't care what voltage I place on them ... the ammeter still thinks they're drawing zero current. :h
Now, at the Dawn of the Lithium Age my AGMs never gurgle and my three-place digital ammeter eventually gets to the place where it thinks that it's reading the same inaccurate zero amps day after day. Maybe my AGMs don't reach a hard stop - maybe they only reach a soft trickle and I don't know it.
Now ... do wets ever reach an accurate hard stop also on bulk charging voltages like my AGMs do ... or do wets gurgle on bulk voltages even if they don't on float voltages? I ask this question because once my AGMs are fully charged, they don't care what voltage I place on them ... the ammeter still thinks they're drawing zero current. :h
