[Normal]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

I got this one pretty cheap from harbor freight and it's worked very well for me. I have a couple of old 6 volt cars I've left it on with good results.

I’ve had zero problems doing trickle charges on dead batteries. The charger I have does high charge, standard charge and trickle charging. I bought it about 10 years ago for around 50 dollars at Autozone.

Just make sure to keep lead acid batteries off concrete floors because they will discharge. If you need to take the battery out, make sure to place it on a block of wood or something insulated from your garage floor. Trickle charging is only recommended for batteries that are completely dead. You basically are bringing the battery back up to life slowly so it will hold a charge. The method doesn’t work with Lithium type batteries. Gell Cells, Nickle Cads and lead acid batteries can all be trickle charged.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Normal

I’ve had zero problems doing trickle charges on dead batteries. The charger I have does high charge, standard charge and trickle charging. I bought it about 10 years ago for around 50 dollars at Autozone.

Just make sure to keep lead acid batteries off concrete floors because they will discharge. If you need to take the battery out, make sure to place it on a block of wood or something insulated from your garage floor. Trickle charging is only recommended for batteries that are completely dead. You basically are bringing the battery back up to life slowly so it will hold a charge. The method doesn’t work with Lithium type batteries. Gell Cells, Nickle Cads and lead acid batteries can all be trickle charged.

I still have my bass boat battery charger it does it all.

[FloridaGuy66]

Originally Posted by Villageshooter

My golf cart has set approximately eight weeks and the battery has went dead in it. I have a jumpstart module to jumpstart it, but what would be the best situation to get it charged up, by driving it?, Do I take it on a long trip from the top of the villages to the bottom of the villages? Will that charge it well enough? I really don’t want to have to buy a battery charger. Any advice you could give me I would be appreciated.

That's a ton of work to avoid buying something that can be found for under $20 and you would probably use in the future.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by Normal

Just make sure to keep lead acid batteries off concrete floors because they will discharge. If you need to take the battery out, make sure to place it on a block of wood or something insulated from your garage floor.

I wonder why? I've been sitting car batteries on a block of wood all my life and I'm not sure why or how sitting then in concrete discharge them. I'm confident my dad is grandpa told me to do this when I was a kid and I've never looked back.

I bet someone knows the actual answer.

[Normal]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

I wonder why? I've been sitting car batteries on a block of wood all my life and I'm not sure why or how sitting then in concrete discharge them. I'm confident my dad is grandpa told me to do this when I was a kid and I've never looked back.

I bet someone knows the actual answer.

I think it’s a moisture thing and the ease of electron movement to the floor? Heat is a worse culprit though. Just like in a lab, the warmer it is, the more the chance for chemical reactions. It’s a better environment for electron valance migration.

[biker1]

There may have been a good reason for not storing lead acid batteries on concrete in the distant past but that is not true for lead acid batteries today.

Originally Posted by Normal

I’ve had zero problems doing trickle charges on dead batteries. The charger I have does high charge, standard charge and trickle charging. I bought it about 10 years ago for around 50 dollars at Autozone.

Just make sure to keep lead acid batteries off concrete floors because they will discharge. If you need to take the battery out, make sure to place it on a block of wood or something insulated from your garage floor. Trickle charging is only recommended for batteries that are completely dead. You basically are bringing the battery back up to life slowly so it will hold a charge. The method doesn’t work with Lithium type batteries. Gell Cells, Nickle Cads and lead acid batteries can all be trickle charged.

[Normal]

Originally Posted by biker1

There may have been a good reason for not storing lead acid batteries on concrete in the distant past but that is not true for lead acid batteries today.

It’s possible issues have been addressed. I did notice there were no caps to pop before charging on the last lead acid I charged. No telling what has been done on the inside of these. Shoot, I’m not even sure if they even sell the acid anymore. We’ve come a long way since Plant’s first work on batteries.

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by Normal

I think it’s a moisture thing and the ease of electron movement to the floor?

I guess it could be moisture, the electrons would probably go from one post to the other rather than the floor?

[biker1]

I suspect it has to do with the battery cases that are now made with better quality “plastics” than in the past, when charge leakage may have occurred.

Originally Posted by Normal

It’s possible issues have been addressed. I did notice there were no caps to pop before charging on the last lead acid I charged. No telling what has been done on the inside of these. Shoot, I’m not even sure if they even sell the acid anymore. We’ve come a long way since Plant’s first work on batteries.