OPTIMA BATTERIES GEL FULL

In those instances, you may need to use a parallel charging technique, that will allow these older battery chargers to see current in a charged battery and deliver current to a discharged battery. If your OPTIMA battery has been deeply-discharged below 10.5 volts, some chargers may not recognize the battery or deliver current to it. It's ok if your OPTIMA battery gets warm while recharging, but if it gets hot to the touch discontinue charging immediately Avoid 'gel' or confusing 'gel/AGM' settings as they may not fully-charge non-gel batteries (OPTIMA batteries are not gel batteries) and could damage them over time

The best chargers are microprocessor-controlled and have specific settings for AGM batteries AGM-specific settings are ideal, but regular or 'deep-cycle' settings may also be used. For float charging, we recommend one amp maximum, 13.2 to 13.8 volts. Gel batteries tend to have very narrow charging parameters, that may not fully-charge non-gel batteries, so we suggest avoiding using any charger setting that references 'gel' when charging an OPTIMA battery. For regular charging, we recommend a maximum of 10 amps and a range of 13.8 to 15.0 volts. Most quality battery chargers and maintainers will work just fine to recover an OPTIMA battery, although we have a couple of recommendations if you are using another brand of charger or maintainer: OPTIMA sells their own battery chargers and maintainers and they do a great job of recharging OPTIMA batteries, but they aren't the only chargers capable of recharging OPTIMA batteries. So how can you recharge a deeply-discharged OPTIMA battery? With just about any quality battery charger on the market. 197,94 (Inclusief btw) Levertijd: Op werkdagen voor 16:00 uur besteld, de volgende werkdag geleverd. Asking an alternator to recharge a deeply-discharged OPTIMA battery can lead to a cycle of 'dead batteries' and jump-starts, until either the battery fails (expensive) or the alternator fails (even more expensive).

OPTIMA BATTERIES GEL FULL

However, that's not always the best way to recharge an OPTIMA battery.Īlternators are designed to maintain a battery's voltage near a full state of charge, not recover deeply-discharged batteries. Most vehicles have integrated charging systems, most often in the form of an alternator, that recharges OPTIMA batteries while the engine is running. OPTIMA batteries, like any other automotive or marine battery, can definitely be recharged after use.

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