[AT] Battery Issues - Charging

[Kevin]

About a year ago or whenever  those chargers came out I had to have one.
They are supposed to bring a dead battery back to life again.  It has worked 
very well for charging, good for jumping 100 amp (that kicks out after 30 
seconds)
Exploded a batt right after I got it chunks of plastic and acid all over 
everything except the charger, smart charger.
And will throw 40 amp charge or 2 A .
Works like a trickle charger also, can leave it hooked up for days. The only 
problem with that is it will say 100%
Unplug it and plug it back in and it might sat anything and start charging 
again ?
I have spent $100 in time for somthing that wouldnt work at all, so I guess 
its a battery charger that will not hook up reverse poles and throw fire. I 
wouldnt loan it to someone that had no knowlege of the dangers involved with 
exploding  a acid battery.
K Mosier
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Battery Issues - Charging


>I think those new chargers were designed to be idiot proof first and how 
>well the work is secondary.  I needed to run a small 12 volt battery 
>recently and didn't have a good battery around.  The Charger wouldn't run 
>it directly but I hooked the charger to a dead battery and hooked the motor 
>to it and it worked fine.
>
> Sunday a friend of mine was trying to charge the battery on his 265 MF 
> without taking the cover off the battery.  He hooked the + to the BAT lug 
> on the starter and the - to the chassis and called me to ask if that was 
> ok. He wanted to make sure he wasn't about to burn something up.  I asked 
> him which charger he was using.  He said that little one I bought from 
> WalMart last year.  I said, don't worry it won't hurt anything.  If you 
> hook them up wrong they won't work and I guess for folks that buy them and 
> don't know what they are doing  that is a good thing.  Sure takes the fun 
> out of it though.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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