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<blockquote data-quote="testorossa1989" data-source="post: 16038941" data-attributes="member: 122681"><p>Okay not only is that how you damage batteries, but it's how you kill alternators as well as risk electrical components. You know the battery charger is exponentially more dangerous than a battery tender right? Some models have "Jump Start" features that have enough power to short out a cars electrical components. Even with a battery out of a car (how i charge a battery when not using tender) I charge it far away from the house.</p><p></p><p>To each their own.... But your method goes against pretty much every cardinal rule. I'm pretty sure Red Top even mentions it on their website.</p><p></p><p>1) Running a car on a low battery for errands doesn't "magically" charge a battery up to 100%. It actually puts a huge strain on the alternator and ends up damaging the battery as well as killing alternators. Which cobras are notorious for eating anyways.</p><p></p><p>2) Constantly charging a battery with a box on "auto" is opposite of what the battery tender does, and just continously sends the power to the battery even after being charged... Which kills batteries and heats them up</p><p></p><p>3) I Really hope you're removing the battery when you do this.</p><p></p><p>4) Just because the charge box says (Auto) doesn't necessarily imply "safe charge". Most of these boxes are intended to send a great amount of power to charge a battery from dead, one time. Keyword is one time. Doing it every other week is killing the battery and a great way to have a issue where the car will register it as being charged but you'll constantly experience flickering and power loss because the power draw is brining it below threshold. That's common in trucks and tricky to diagnose.</p><p></p><p>I'd strongly recommend you Google the difference between Charge Box and Trickle charging since you seem to be using them backwards. Also, while some boxes can trickle charge... Not all of them can turn off. Example, my trickle charge will allow (once charged) to allow the battery to drop to like 97% charge then trickle it back up; opposed to constantly trickling (or charging) a battery with a charge box from 50% which is still harmful to the battery , just not as much (if trickling w/ box) as above practices </p><p></p><p>Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="testorossa1989, post: 16038941, member: 122681"] Okay not only is that how you damage batteries, but it's how you kill alternators as well as risk electrical components. You know the battery charger is exponentially more dangerous than a battery tender right? Some models have "Jump Start" features that have enough power to short out a cars electrical components. Even with a battery out of a car (how i charge a battery when not using tender) I charge it far away from the house. To each their own.... But your method goes against pretty much every cardinal rule. I'm pretty sure Red Top even mentions it on their website. 1) Running a car on a low battery for errands doesn't "magically" charge a battery up to 100%. It actually puts a huge strain on the alternator and ends up damaging the battery as well as killing alternators. Which cobras are notorious for eating anyways. 2) Constantly charging a battery with a box on "auto" is opposite of what the battery tender does, and just continously sends the power to the battery even after being charged... Which kills batteries and heats them up 3) I Really hope you're removing the battery when you do this. 4) Just because the charge box says (Auto) doesn't necessarily imply "safe charge". Most of these boxes are intended to send a great amount of power to charge a battery from dead, one time. Keyword is one time. Doing it every other week is killing the battery and a great way to have a issue where the car will register it as being charged but you'll constantly experience flickering and power loss because the power draw is brining it below threshold. That's common in trucks and tricky to diagnose. I'd strongly recommend you Google the difference between Charge Box and Trickle charging since you seem to be using them backwards. Also, while some boxes can trickle charge... Not all of them can turn off. Example, my trickle charge will allow (once charged) to allow the battery to drop to like 97% charge then trickle it back up; opposed to constantly trickling (or charging) a battery with a charge box from 50% which is still harmful to the battery , just not as much (if trickling w/ box) as above practices Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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