What is it about the word 'trickle' that is apparently so soothing to english speaking humans?
On some Automotive forums often there will be a recommendation to put an old abused dead battery on a trickle charger for a few hours and it will be as good as new or some equally ridiculous claim.
trickle chargers are generally less than 2 amps
Most Auto batteries are well more than 50 Amp hours
2 amps for a few hours does extremely little but this same ridiculous advice will be posted over and over again as gospel. They seem to think any charge rate higher than this will make the battery explode, unaware that if they were to jumpstart this dead battery, the alternator would likely feed it in excess of 50 amps, initially.
