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03-31-2012, 11:22 PM
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Battery Charger Blues
My little ol battery charger "Full Charge Light" comes on when the battery is still about dead. Everything is clean and have good connections so, is the battery charger ready for battery charger heaven. I've had it about 16 years.
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04-01-2012, 05:54 AM
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Perhaps it is the battery; if the battery has lost a cell, the charger may not be able to understand the voltage it is receiving and gives up.
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04-01-2012, 05:57 AM
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Grab a volt meter and directly measure the output from the charger while it's connected to a known good battery, plus watch how the charger operates with it connected to a good battery. Then go back to the dead battery and do it again. As a battery charges up, it's voltage rises and it will draw less current from the charger. The lamp in your charger is likely set to turn on at a specific voltage, (somewhere in the 12.7 to 13.2v range). A battery can have an internal failure that causes it to not take a charge and to the charger it can look like it's fully charged.
Last edited by thcardoc; 04-01-2012 at 05:58 AM.
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04-01-2012, 08:05 AM
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Time for a new battery charger, the technology of battery chargers has changed a lot in 16 years.
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04-01-2012, 01:20 PM
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The newer chargers will tell you if there is a bettery problem. The really old ones, tha ampmeters just would not move on a dead battery.
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