Thread: Charging Batteries
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Re: Charging Batteries
The 6A setting is fine for these batteries. As others have said, charging at higher amperages can and will shorten the lifespan of these batteries dramatically. We've charged some of ours on a 35A Fast Charge setting intended for car batteries for a few minutes at a time, those batteries aren't any good now, they wont last more than a minute or two at a time. One time someone accidentally left a battery on the 35A charge overnight... needless to say we returned the next day to a useless, exploded battery.

EDIT: Note that we don't do this anymore, we just HAVE in the past. I'm not sure that we have at all since that battery detonated.