Bruce Napier formulated on Sunday : > On 11 Jul 2009, at 23:14, Dave Wedd wrote: > >> That's interesting - I've looked at several chargers recently, and >> they all cut off instantly when they reach 14.4V, or drop back to a >> float charge. No sustained 14.4V. Many of the batteries charged in >> this way seem to be failing, though that may be due to other factors. >> > A three stage charger holds 14.4 as the absorption voltage (assuming > it's set to do that) until its heuristic tells it to go to float, > but it's seldom for as long as four hours in my experience. The Advac holds it at that for 5 minutes in 15 if I remember correctly, but even then the charge rate is down to 2 amps
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