Topic: batteryminder chargers??

[AT853rxwh]

Already +T'd ya!  I know about that cuz of the wife doing that on our scooter batts... She forgets and it never charges...  

[F.O.Bean]

Already +T'd ya!  I know about that cuz of the wife doing that on our scooter batts... She forgets and it never charges...  

haha, i can hear it now, "honey, please dont forget to UNPLUG it from the wall, THEN hook it up"

"ok"

*forgets to unplug it from the wall first*

 

[AT853rxwh]

Already +T'd ya!  I know about that cuz of the wife doing that on our scooter batts... She forgets and it never charges...  

haha, i can hear it now, "honey, please dont forget to UNPLUG it from the wall, THEN hook it up"

"ok"

*forgets to unplug it from the wall first*

 

Damn!  You must have a camera hid in my house!

[F.O.Bean]

haha, im not that crafty!!

i could just hear it in my head, im pretty good at perspectives

and i kinda know women, a wee lil bit, not much tho, but a wee lil bit

[F.O.Bean]

damn, guess my batt was pretty fully charged, plus the batteryminder 12v charger is 1 amp instead of 800mah!!

its already blinking on the light!!

should i let it "float" for a minute like the eco stuff so itys actually brought up to its fifth charge cycle???

or is that done??

[AT853rxwh]

damn, guess my batt was pretty fully charged, plus the batteryminder 12v charger is 1 amp instead of 800mah!!

its already blinking on the light!!

should i let it "float" for a minute like the eco stuff so itys actually brought up to its fifth charge cycle???

or is that done??

Batts usually don't see full capacity til run down and charged a few times, thing that is what they are saying?   

[F.O.Bean]

i mustve had a flashback to school, talking about capos and shit, capacitors have a 5-cycle charge up time, and also discharge rates, so i dunno what i was talking about

also, its not good to run the SLA stuff down right? thats what ive been told and have been doing for years, altho, i have occassionally deep discharged the eco stuff, if it even deep discharges, which i dont think it does!!

got the charger thing figured out, ran jb3 tests for a couple days, and it was dead when i finally got home(12v that is)

so im charging the 12v 7.2a now, its been going for about 14-16 hrs charging, i think thats a long time huh???

oh and about the fifth cycle, i was just meaning, if the light starts blinking on the batteryminder, does that mean its at 100% charge, or is it like the eco stuff when it goes "green" on the light or "float", eco says to let it go an extra hr or 2 to "top" the battery off and get it at 100% charge!! or at least as close as it can get t0 100%!!

[F.O.Bean]

ummm, i have been charging a dead 12v 7.2amp eco for about 26 hrs now and it still hasnt gone into "float" mode, no blinking lights or anything, just a steady light??

should i desulphate???

how do i do that??

[AT853rxwh]

ummm, i have been charging a dead 12v 7.2amp eco for about 26 hrs now and it still hasnt gone into "float" mode, no blinking lights or anything, just a steady light??

should i desulphate???

how do i do that??

should be a button on the charger, when it is flashing it is desuphating... Remember tho, you have to leave it desulphating for a LONG time for it to help... (sometimes weeks!)

[F.O.Bean]

ummm, i thought when the left light started flashing, it was in "float" mode??

either way, its been plugged in for a LONG time and no signs of showing a full charge.....

[AT853rxwh]

ummm, i thought when the left light started flashing, it was in "float" mode??

either way, its been plugged in for a LONG time and no signs of showing a full charge.....

If it is solid now it is still trying to get it to charge, and if it has been on that long it prolly won't.  Hit the button and get it flashing leave it for a week or so then try charging again...

[F.O.Bean]

its been solid since about 9am yesterday(monday)

ive taken it off the charger, done this, done that, and nothing, when i got the battery i hoooked it up to my charger and BAM, started blinking almost immediately, and then i ran my jb3 tests, let the battery die all the way and now it wont take full charge it seems, this sux, im leaving in about 2 weeks for phish too...

[F.O.Bean]

also, when i take the charger off of the ac wallwart thing i have, the 'battery condition' light is still on while the battery is still connected!! kinda weird, does that mean its 'desulphating'

this is worrying me now, 28 hrs should have charged it ya know??

[AT853rxwh]

that is normal...


Try doing a rundown and recharge...

[F.O.Bean]

thats whats weird, i ran it COMPLETELY down testing the jb3, and its been charging about 30 hrs or more now, i just busted out the multimeter just now, and i noticed that the 12v sla is only at 5.5-6volts charge, before the tests, i believe it wasa at about 12.6volts or something, so maybe its the charger??