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Originally Posted by eeeeweeezeee
afterthought: it isn't safe charging them faster than 6 amps, yet its safe to discharge them at 80amps? I'm not attacking your post or you in any way, I'm just generally unhappy about the battery rules and for some reason extra unhappy right now.
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Lead acid batteries when charged can generate quite a bit of heat when charged at a fast rate, and actually charging a 17Ah battery at 6 amps is rather fast (C/3), where it is deep cylce you won't run into the problems like you would with an automotive battery if you "cook" it with a very fast charge, with the automotive batteries you can actually "sluff" of plates of the battery and possibly cause it to vent, especially with the increased temperature and also with the gases that are generated during charging, which in a side note is also flamable...
Those are just some of the reasons that you dont want to charge especially a sealed lead acid battery at more than C/3
Tim
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