Difference Between Float and Trickle Charger

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   Looking to avoid filling up my 2018 maxima every 2.5 days because of using my A/C for 12 hour shifts for the upcoming summer. Started looking into portable battery trickle chargers and maintainers, or dual battery isolation kits, or portable Air conditioners with accessory battery packs, etc. Looking to see if anyone here has been in a similar situation and found a solution where they can either run their car's ac off accessory mode and preserve the car's gas mileage or use a recommended portable air conditioner. thanks in advance

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   Thank you sir for sharing your expertise.

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   I don’t think that’s what internal resistance is.

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   I use the old school charger for a discharge battery most smart charger over rate there current. So I use the old school charger for the bulk charge then use a smart charger to do the rest.
   If you got a real bad discharge battery the smart charger may not work because The battery us to low for the charger to see to turn on.
   But 95 percent of the time just use a smart charger plug and play.

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   Excellently explained yound man. Now my uncle was an old skool mechanic and always disconected the battery clamp leads, and charge, is this necessary anymote with these computer contorled so called smart chargers?

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   Awesome thanks so much! Have a question for you I just got a Napa battery charger/maintainer model HFMC15A. It’s a 1.5A charger so pretty gentle. Using it to charge a 12V 22AH battery. It says maintainer on the box does doesn’t mention anything in the manual and seems to be holding a charge around 13.5V and doesn’t drop off. Is there anyway for me to know for sure if it will maintain closer to 12V or is that 13.5V within the realm of reasonable over charge? Think I’ll be okay or should I get a different charger?? Thanks!

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   Great review, would these chargers work on a set of two 12 volt batteries connected in parallel for 24 volts?

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   Great review, would these chargers work on a set of two 12 volt batteries connected in parallel for 24 volts?

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   Very informatics. Good👌👌

10. 

    Great video on the obscure subject I was searching for. Thanks man

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    Thank you so much. You are very knowledgeable and very professional

12. 

    well explained! 🛠

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    how about 3 amp

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    Hi! nice video ,,,, Can you leave the batterie connected to the car when connecting a float charger for the winter or do you need to disconnect the batterie. Thanks

15. 

    Very informative! The balloon analogy is spot on and helped me understand it better.

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    Great video! What do you think about those solar trickle charge batteries?

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    A most excellent presentation!
    My only question is, “when are you doing a video on refinishing your wife’s dining room table top”?🤨

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    A heavy charge current from an unregulated charger must be closely monitored to prevent boiling, venting of dangerous gases and creation of bubbles on the battery plates. But the old-style, unregulated charger is the only way to begin recovery of a dead battery if a smart charger cannot.

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    Smart chargers don't work on sulfation effectively. A minimum of 200 amps is needed. An old Schmacher is worth it's weight in gold.

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    I had 2 x 12v batteries in an electric wheel chair that were complete flat dead. I put my 6amp dumb charger on it for like over 24 hours and got nothing. I hooked it up to my running truck for 10 minutes and still nothing. Would not even light up my tester or cause a spark accross the terminals. That's a dead battery.

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    That balloon analogy is one of the better ones I've heard to comprehend charging

22. 

    Thank you! Exactly the information i was searching for! I already fried one battery and didn't want to do it again!!

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    Hi, I overdischarged my 12v 200Ah sealed lead acid solar battery, can I use the trickle charger? How do I go about it, please help