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Default Does recharging batteries with a charger harm them?

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:33:20 +0000, Hank wrote:

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|!Could I be right in thinking that using a battery charger to recharge
|!a run-down car battery tends to reduce the life of the battery?

Wrong.

|!more than a couple of ocasions, car batteries I have owned have not
|!survived long after I have used mains plug-in chargers to recharge
|!them.

|!The reason the batteries needed charging was not due to any fault in
|!the battery; it was due to the cars having ben standing, undriven, for
|!a long time.

Or the alternator is f*cked.

Or the battery is knackered, they only last a few years.
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