Originally Posted by
Moose1am
If you own a Vector Smart Battery Charger or something similar be sure to let the battery warm up before you try to charge it up. Frozen batteries won't charge well. Water must be liquid to conduct the charger electrons. So bring your unit inside and let it warm up for a few hours and then try to charge it.
I got a scare to day when I brought my new Vector Jumper battery/charger inside and tried to charge it up. I got an F2 fault reading and thought that I was going to have to take the unit back. I searched though my receipts and found the orignal receipt and was ready to take it back when I decided to read the manual once more. There I found that you are not suppose to charge a frozen battery. LOL Well my unit had been out in the truck all night. It may have been too cold to accept a charge or for the electronic charger system to function. So I got the hair drying out and warmed the battery up for a while. After about 30 minute the unit finally started to accept the change. I didn't have to charge it up very much because it was already showing a full charge on the diode lights on the vectors front panel.
I got the unit to start accepting some charge at about 1 or 2 amp/hours. But since the battery was already fully charged up it didn't take but 10 minutes to have the display reading FUL meaning that the battery was fully charged up.
I paid almost 80 bucks for this darn thing in Sept and was not about to have it fail me now.
Winter time is the time to have a spare battery ready to charge or jump your vehicles battery or your boats battery if that needs it.
It's getting pretty cold now and it got down well below freezing last night. I think it got down to 17 to 19 deg F last night and it's cold today.
This South Louisiana boy has never in his life heard of a frozen battery. (LOL)
I never thought that could happen! Thanks for the info as it is getting down into the twenties this week in Louisiana.
I can't leave now; They fixen to turn on.