You are right. Don't wanna cook em.
Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote:
So who knows what about charging car batteries?
I always thought it was bad to charge at a high rate. Better to slowly
charge at a low amperage unless one needed to get the motor started
and the battery did not cooperate.
> > fmiser wrote:
> >
> > But - the alternator is rather high current. I don't remember
> > what is on an OM61x - 60A maybe? With a bunch of glow and a
> > lot of cranking the battery voltage could be low enough that
> > alternator could be supplying more than 40 amps just to charge.
> Jim wrot
On 31/10/2018 11:18 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote:
On October 31, 2018 at 10:04 AM Jim Cathey via Mercedes
wrote:
But not for long. The voltage regulator is in there. The high-current
alternators
are there to _run_ the heavy loads, not for nuclear battery charging.
Right.
A typical Me
> On October 31, 2018 at 10:04 AM Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> wrote:
> But not for long. The voltage regulator is in there. The high-current
> alternators
> are there to _run_ the heavy loads, not for nuclear battery charging.
Right.
A typical Mercedes is going to be around 13.4V in warm we
>
> But - the alternator is rather high current. I don't remember
what is on an OM61x - 60A maybe? With a bunch of glow and a lot
> of cranking the battery voltage could be low enough that
> alternator could be supplying more than 40 amps just to charge.
>
But not for long. The voltage regulat
> Randy wrote:
> So who knows what about charging car batteries?
> I always thought it was bad to charge at a high rate. Better to
> slowly charge at a low amperage unless one needed to get the
> motor started and the battery did not cooperate.
> Now I read on here, that you folks want big charger
> On October 30, 2018 at 3:17 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
>
> So who knows what about charging car batteries?
> I always thought it was bad to charge at a high rate.
Two issues with high rate charging, heat and hydrolysis.
Run it too hot and plates can warp.
Excess voltage mak
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:17:39 -0500 Randy Bennell via Mercedes
wrote:
> So who knows what about charging car batteries?
I know some, and have lots of references.
> I always thought it was bad to charge at a high rate. Better to slowly
> charge at a low amperage unless one needed to get the mot
So who knows what about charging car batteries?
I always thought it was bad to charge at a high rate. Better to slowly
charge at a low amperage unless one needed to get the motor started and
the battery did not cooperate.
Now I read on here, that you folks want big chargers with big amperage.
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