Thread: Battery Question

Originally Posted by Norman Dales

I believed they put a voltmeter up to it while it's plugged in. I think I'm just not going to worry about it. I really appreciate yalls input. I feel a little better about it after hearing from quite a few it's normal.

Keep an eye on it. The leaking is not normal, but the sizzling/boiling is so long as you aren't noticing hot batteries.

Not getting a full charge on your batteries then discharging them (either fully or partially) is also very hard on batteries and will shorten their service life. The reason I mention this is that you said your charger is 2A output. I'm not sure how often you fish, but it will take quite a while to charge an even partially discharged deep cycle battery at 2 amps. For ease of explanation, think about this. If you have a 100 amp hour battery and it is 50% discharged, then you have to restore 50 amp hours to bring it back to full charge. So, hypothetically we have 100% charger/battery efficiency with no loss: 50Ah/2 Amps = 25 hours charge time minimum.

Good luck

Seems like the sizzling or boiling happens more when you've got a high amp charger in my experience. Never would've thought a 2A would have much going on.

I think you guys are right. I bet my charger is pushing more than 2 amps. Only thing that makes sense to me compared to when I hook them up to another charger that I know is pushing less because I am barely hear anything.

Originally Posted by Norman Dales

I think you guys are right. I bet my charger is pushing more than 2 amps. Only thing that makes sense to me compared to when I hook them up to another charger that I know is pushing less because I am barely hear anything.

Pretty easy to test your charger for output. Find someone with a D.C. Ammeter to check it. If your close to Ponca, I could do it for you.
It's likely the store had one when you had them test it there.