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Default Unsmoothed car battery charger - is it crap?

On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:27:50 +0100, Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:

In article ,
Robert Baer wrote:
It's a sealed battery. Are they better or worse than electrolyte
batteries when the charge drops to very low?

Sealed batteries use a gelled electolyte, and so the charge rate must
be limited to prevent outgassing.


Although they're called sealed, car batteries are actually low
maintenance
types which are still wet. Some serious off roaders may use SLA - but
don't know of any car which does.



MX5s IIRC