A place where I volunteer has several old tractors with 6 Volt systems with generators that have the batteries removed and placed on trickle chargers during several winter months. These batteries are AC Delco and had dried up this past winter. I haven't checked specs on the trickle chargers and I don't remember their brand right now. I'll have to check those specs, but in the meantime has anyone else experienced trickle chargers drying out batteries. It just happened on 6 V batteries which seems strange to me. We had 12 V batteries on trickle chargers during the same time and they all came out good although the 12s are not AC Delco. Maybe we got a bad batch of AC Delco 6 Vs?
I'm well aware that you can boil batteries dry on big chargers, but I thought the main purpose of trickle chargers is to prevent "boil away"and maintain a trickle current to maintain full charge. Or maybe we have some defective trickle chargers?
I'm well aware that you can boil batteries dry on big chargers, but I thought the main purpose of trickle chargers is to prevent "boil away"and maintain a trickle current to maintain full charge. Or maybe we have some defective trickle chargers?