Back in the day, when you carried a shelf full of wet batteries, it was common practice to hook a trickle charger. The charger had up to probably ten sets of hookups so same charger was used on many batteries at the same time. Not in series like some old, old chargers were, all parallel circuits. they never over charged the battery. I find a lot of people calling a 4 or 6 amp charger a trickle charger and it IS NOT. Although you could leave a 6 amp charger on for several days to a good size tractor battery and never hurt the battery, it will over charge a small battery like lawn mower. That small battery cannot provide enough reverse electromotive force to reduce charging amperage. Remember, your normal charging voltage in your vehicle, tractor, truck or car, will run about 14.2 to 14.5, depending on temperature and you run that tractor for hours on end. You are really not putting over a amp or two into a fully charged battery, same as that slow charger will do when voltage reached that point.
I have a couple of battery maintainers on this winter and I do notice, they kick back on now and then, green light comes on. These are batteries from boat and lawn mowers. I don't know, should I post this or not, yaa, what the heck.
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