landyacht318 wrote:
Automatic smart chargers need to be tricked into fully charging a battery.
When the lying green light illuminates, disconnect and unplug charger, turn on a load on battery to drop voltage below 12.6v, and restart charger. I had to do this a dozen times on an abused marine battery that was used for powering a trolling motor before I could get Specific gravity up above 1.265. Originally the green light came on at 1.215.
The owner of battery and smart charger simply believed the green light. He had total faith in the green light. His world was shattered when a Hydrometer proved the green light was a simple Liar.
I'm sure he went back to believing the soothing green light as soon as I left. It was simply too far outside the fully automatic mindset that permeates society today.
