Is killing batteries three times too much?
I use a set of 6V golf cart batteries from Costco. The pair that is in my rig now is two years old and they only last a couple of nights before the low voltage alarm on my CPAP starts sounding. When t...
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Unfortunately the charge them just before you need them mentality is widespread. Even if you try to drum it into somebody that a depleted battery needs to be recharged asap, prior experience, and more capacity than required, and perhaps hopeful of a warranty return, has the battery abuser continue bad habits.
Eventually the capacity is not enough, the abuser freaks out, hopes some magical charger can restore them, and only then finds it is too little too late, and effort would have been better spent learning how to prevent the next set of batteries from following the same path into delayed undercharged death.
Can't hurt to try and EQ the batteries, but you need a charger which can do this, and you need a charger for the next set of batteries anyway, and only a few automatic chargers out there can actually max out the SG of any given battery, as they are all automatic underchargers with extra special confidence inspiring marketing aimed at the ignorant
Those that claim otherwise, that their average joe converter/automatic bell and whistle charger, never want to, can't, or just stubbornly refuse to employ the best tool and friend a flooded battery has, which is the hydrometer, a capable charger and a battery owner with a clue as to what a battery needs to have a respectable lifespan.
In this case it was letting them sit discharged after an outing, and charge them just before needing to use them that signed their death warrant, and it is surprising they lasted as long as they did in this abuse.
Eventually the capacity is not enough, the abuser freaks out, hopes some magical charger can restore them, and only then finds it is too little too late, and effort would have been better spent learning how to prevent the next set of batteries from following the same path into delayed undercharged death.
Can't hurt to try and EQ the batteries, but you need a charger which can do this, and you need a charger for the next set of batteries anyway, and only a few automatic chargers out there can actually max out the SG of any given battery, as they are all automatic underchargers with extra special confidence inspiring marketing aimed at the ignorant
Those that claim otherwise, that their average joe converter/automatic bell and whistle charger, never want to, can't, or just stubbornly refuse to employ the best tool and friend a flooded battery has, which is the hydrometer, a capable charger and a battery owner with a clue as to what a battery needs to have a respectable lifespan.
In this case it was letting them sit discharged after an outing, and charge them just before needing to use them that signed their death warrant, and it is surprising they lasted as long as they did in this abuse.
