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[T3] Battery trickle charging


One other thing I noted when it warmed last weekend is that my new 6V
battery that I bought for the Crate was boiling away with the 75Ma that I
was putting though it.
	Fortunately it hadn't really boiled away much of the water but I
felt that 75Ma was getting too high for a winter-long trickle so I reduced
it to the 30Ma that I put into the 12V batteries and that produces a just
barely audible bubbling. Food for thought anyway if anyone is building or
buying a trickle charger... and it's the current though the battery that is
important, not the number of cells it has (voltage).

Now... will I get 9 years out of the Squares battery?  Probably not... but
it isn't dead yet!

Keith


Top Notch Restorations
topnotch@nycap.rr.com 
71 Squareback
65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"
65 Squareback "Eggcrate"
87 golf "Winterat"
93 RX7 "Redstur"


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