Old automotive battery charger question
I have an approx. 40 year old 12/6 volt automotive battery charger. When set for 12 volts and not connected to a battery, it reads 12.81 volts. Set to 6 volts and not connected to a battery, it reads ...
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Harvey51 wrote:
Thanks for the first post. I was getting our class C ready for some short trips and somehow drained the engine battery. No problem I thought I’ll just use my Black & Decker smart charger. But it refused to charge. After reading the first post I borrowed a dumb charger and got it charged enough for the smart charger to top up.
Kind of make you wonder if the battery industry gave the charger industry some hush money to incorporate that feature into chargers to help sell more batteries?
Smart Charger won't charge the battery so battery must be bad and needs replaced?
Old school chargers sometimes are a bit "smarter" than new technology :B
