Maintain your batteries over the summer break

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26-05-2010, 15:55

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Re: Maintain your batteries over the summer break

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The Shumacher SC-600A manual says explicitly that the charger goes into "maintenance mode" once the battery reaches a fully charged state. It shuts off the current, then periodically checks the voltage and starts another charge cycle when the voltage has dropped below "full".

Alan: good info (I couldn't locate our SC-600A manual...). This feature appears to make the SC-600A charger safe for long-term connection to a battery. I saw another comment online that perhaps the SC-600A also has desulphation capability -- does the manual say anything about that?

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