Sounds like a question for interstate.
Peace,
Pat
Pat Horne
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> On Apr 7, 2020, at 9:34 AM, Jimmie Mayfield via Shop-talk
> <shop-talk@autox.team.net> wrote:
>
The recent discussion about solar-powered float chargers has reminded me of
an issue that I've yet to understand or resolve...
I have a Battery Minder 12248 (12V 2/4/8A) charger/de-sulfator with temperature
compensation sensor. While I've never been able to appreciably restore a dead
UPS battery using the de-sulfation mode, it seems to work fine as a slow
charger. It has several modes -- gel-cell, AGM or flooded -- which, near as I
can tell, adjusts the threshold voltage at which the charger switches from
bulk-charge mode to float-charge/de-sulfation mode.
Every 12V battery that I've ever connected to the charger, even the old AGM
batteries taken out of my UPS units, eventually reached the threshold voltage
and switched over to float mode (usually within 30-45 minutes for a
nearly-fully-charged battery). Except one.
About 2 years ago I installed an Interstate battery from Costco (size 27F,
890CA, 710CCA) in my truck. It's a flooded battery and if I understand
Interstate's spec correctly, its capacity works out to around 100Ah. The
battery has a resting voltage of 12.6V so it doesn't appear to have any shorted
cells and has no trouble starting my truck. So it seems to be a normally
healthy battery, right?
Thing is...I've never seen my charger go into float mode when connected to this
battery even when it was nearly new. With the recent pandemic stay-at-home
orders, yesterday I decided to connect my truck to the charger to stave off
parasitic drain (measured to be 20-30mA) that may have accumulated over the
past week of inactivity. I'm currently at 16 hours (@4A) and it still seems to
be in bulk-charging mode. I have difficulty believing that the battery needed
50+ Ah.
So what's going on here? This is the only battery that I've come across that
behaves like this.
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