o/t Charging small 6 volt battery

bweb · Jan 1, 2010

Hello everyone. I have a 6 volt spring top battery in a feeder that is hooked to a solar charger. Well the charger doesn"t seem to be keeping up with the charging. The battery is a 6 volt, 5Ah. The only other charger I have is a car charger and the 6 volt setting shows it charges at 12 amps. Will this do any damage to the battery?
Thanks, Barry

JMOR · Jan 1, 2010

(quoted from post at 15:31:30 01/01/10) Hello everyone. I have a 6 volt spring top battery in a feeder that is hooked to a solar charger. Well the charger doesn"t seem to be keeping up with the charging. The battery is a 6 volt, 5Ah. The only other charger I have is a car charger and the 6 volt setting shows it charges at 12 amps. Will this do any damage to the battery?
Thanks, Barry

eah, it will hurt it. The standard for a lead acid battery is 10 HOUR RATE. For your 5AH batt, that would be 5AH/10H=0.5Amp. You didn't specify lead acid, but that is the answer you got.

440roadrunner · Jan 1, 2010

The way I do this is just "rig" a resistor using a tail/ stoplamp

You can vary the charging rate three ways:

A tail/ stop lamp has three connections: ground, tail, and stop

LOW rate: hook the bulb in series using the tail and stop connections---both filaments will be in series

MED rate: Hook in series using ground and tail

HI rate Hook in series using ground and stop

If the rate is too high, find a smaller wattage bulb.

BCnT · Jan 1, 2010

heres what i use on feeder batteries in off season.
moultrie battery charger

Walterdavies · Jan 1, 2010

I picked up a nice little 12/6 volt charger from Wally-world the other day it will charge 6V at 2A payed under $20 for it. It won't over charge your battery.
Nice small unit.
Walt

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