Hi all,
I have been running a solar panel to keep my battery charged. It is a 75 W Coleman model and it came with a charge control unit.
This fall the battery started to get weak. I pulled it today and took it to my garage. They tested it with a load and it did not recover.
The water was low so I topped it up and put it on my home charger and it is pulling about 7 amps. All cells were low on fluid.
Two cells are bubbling but the others are doing nothing.
I suspect that charge controller is not too good and maybe it boiled off a lot of water?
When I first starting using the solar panel it always indicated the battery was charged when I would go to the boat after a period of non-use. However, later in the summer it always indicated it was still charging when I went to the boat.
Next season I plan to get a better charge controller.
Questions:
1) does it sound like the battery is toast?
2) any recommendations for a charge controller
I cannot attest to the provenance of the battery as I was given it by a friend so I really do not know old it is.
Appreciate your thoughts,
Peter
I have been running a solar panel to keep my battery charged. It is a 75 W Coleman model and it came with a charge control unit.
This fall the battery started to get weak. I pulled it today and took it to my garage. They tested it with a load and it did not recover.
The water was low so I topped it up and put it on my home charger and it is pulling about 7 amps. All cells were low on fluid.
Two cells are bubbling but the others are doing nothing.
I suspect that charge controller is not too good and maybe it boiled off a lot of water?
When I first starting using the solar panel it always indicated the battery was charged when I would go to the boat after a period of non-use. However, later in the summer it always indicated it was still charging when I went to the boat.
Next season I plan to get a better charge controller.
Questions:
1) does it sound like the battery is toast?
2) any recommendations for a charge controller
I cannot attest to the provenance of the battery as I was given it by a friend so I really do not know old it is.
Appreciate your thoughts,
Peter
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