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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Not all chargers are created equal and yours may be intended for 50 amp hour batteries or above. If so, your charger may be producing significantly higher charge currents than the 6 amps stated for these batteries. High charge currents could result in heating and less than optimal charging. CCA testing with a car type test set will result in extremely high and possibly damaging current draws. I recommend the Battery Beak for quick checks and the West Mountain Radio CBA IV for controlled testing.
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Al, not sure if the hot battery comment was directed at my post or not, but our charger/maintainer is a 10 bank 2 amp charger. I'm not denying the fact that a battery will get warm when charging, but the Werker batteries we tried last year got warm immediately and never made it to full charge. This
charger isn't going to damage the batteries, nor will the
Optima 400 with a setting specifically for mulitple size AGM batteries.
Also, there are many forms of automotive CCA testing meters out there, don't jump to conclusions about what they do. You can't say every automotive tester will damage them (automotive includes motorcycle/moped), however I would accept that certain methods could damage a battery. All of our equipment is recommended and operated with the assistance of an electronics engineer and a lead acid battery specialist that work with us to make sure we can save money on batteries. We still use batteries in competition from four years ago because they still perform just fine and only slightly lower in performance than the brand new ones we get each year.