Discharge both batteries to 12.00 volts. Charge each battery back up using 14.4 volts as a limit and NO LESS THAN 20.0 amps charge rate to start off on. Leave voltage set at 14.40 the whole time. Now what do you see as the point where voltage is at 14.40 and amperage decrease seems to "stall"? When absorbsion is working amperage will decrease as time passes. Then it decreases rapidly to around .5 to 1.0 amp.
Example, the batteries should not diddle for hours and hours between 10 and 5 amps. Or at 4 or three amps.
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