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Re: Be aware of battery and charger inconsistencies!

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
My tentative working hypothesis, based on the presently insufficient information available, is that the Stanley BC1509 is overcharging the FRC battery (for which it was not designed).



Some "smart" battery chargers are not smart enough. If you interrupt them in the middle of a charge cycle and then try to continue, they may mis-read the state of the battery and fail to complete the charge cycle. I know my Schumacher SC-1200A sometimes does this.


according to the information here: http://www.powerstream.com/SLA-fast-charge.htm with the max charge voltage this thing outputs it can't go into an overcharge state. it can be a higher than 0.3C rating yes but no overcharge.