Costco 6 volt batteries- both died
I recently purchased 2 6 volt batteries from Costco for my travel trailer and wired them in series. I used them for 2 trips and when I picked up my trailer last weekend found that both were dead (I fo...
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DuPont (Is that you Heri?)
You have gotten mostly good advice to get started at recharging the bank, but I have some very specific experience you will be glad to hear. Real Deep Cycle batteries being what they are, they may well survive this ordeal if not left dead for very long and not frozen. Expect that once you have used the above tricks into fooling the good charger to do its job, that the bank may well come back to 80% of capacity. This is just because real deep cycle batteries were made with the expectation that they might be abused.
Good Luck
Matt
You have gotten mostly good advice to get started at recharging the bank, but I have some very specific experience you will be glad to hear. Real Deep Cycle batteries being what they are, they may well survive this ordeal if not left dead for very long and not frozen. Expect that once you have used the above tricks into fooling the good charger to do its job, that the bank may well come back to 80% of capacity. This is just because real deep cycle batteries were made with the expectation that they might be abused.
Good Luck
Matt
