Caution Re: <VV> Battery

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Jason and Kent,
    That's quite true.  However, if you just put  on most "trickle chargers" 
they will charge the battery up too high and begin  decomposing the 
electrolyte making hydrogen which is not safe to have  indoors.  Also, the electrolyte 
level will drop below the level of the  plates and you have to regularly add 
distilled water to bring it back up over  the top of the plates.  Better to use 
a charger that's designed to stay  connected to the battery for long periods 
of time without overcharging, Like the  Battery Tender Plus which has 3 
charging levels.  As the battery comes up  on charge, the unit will automatically 
switch to the lowest level of charge  which is about 13.5 volts, just enough to 
keep the battery charged, but not too  much to cause electrolyte decomposition. 
 Using one of these regularly  enabled me to get 11.5 YEARS of service (and 
over 100,000 miles) from my  factory original Delco battery in my "Dustbuster".
    Frank "what, me obsessive?" Burkhard
 
In a message dated 9/9/2007 8:12:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
kentsu at corvairkid.com writes:

Jason,  the replica battery should not go south quickly if you have a  trickle
charger on it. Those help a lot with replica  batteries.

--Kent







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