[AT] OT Battery Chargers

[Spencer Yost]

>It seems all the new computerized chargers cannot identify a dead battery.

>Both of my automatic chargers say a dead battery is fully charged when in 
>fact it is dead.  I go to my Big charger for flat batteries and "jump
>start" 
>them at 50+ amps for a short time. After this, an automatic charger seems
>to 

I was about the say the same thing.  It seems that a certain voltage is
required to get the feedback the computer needs and a truly dead battery
can't "wake up" the computer.  Like you, I just throw the manual amps to it
for a while and then the computer seems to be able to charge it.

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
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