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Default Lead acid battery charger (or alternator) switching to tricklewith load present?

On 6/21/19 5:55 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

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I guess charging a car battery with a charger plugged into the house
won't work if you have a load in the car like lights (or in my case a
faulty alarm).* The charger will think the battery is still drawing a
fair current and isn't full, when in fact it's the load eating it up.


I've tried it with an automatic charger. If the load is enough that the
battery won't change within a certain time, the charger stops and
indicates an error.

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