[AT] Battery Issues - Charging

[Cecil Bearden]

I've had 3 batteries blow up.  One while jumping it was in a pickup.  
One while testing it with a piece of baling wire....   the last one 
while starting the tractor.  The generator started charging and it blew 
up.  All of these b atteries were Willard brand!!!  just coincidence.

Cecil in OKla

Kevin wrote:
>
> 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
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>> 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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