Charging battery in place?
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Here is a slick way for ANY vehicle to have a charger hooked up. Go to you local snow plow parts store & get the plow motor leads that go to your battery, ususally get the ones for MEYER or a salt spreader hook up.They are cheaper than you Western or Boss leads. Hook the truck mount side to your tractors battery & feed it out to the out side of the tractors frame ( I am speaking from experience of a BX2350 which has the battery under the steering wheel & alittle difficult to get to ) . Then when ever you need a charge or JUMP you can pull the covers off of the PLUG & charge without fear of grounding out , Works great for any vehicle as well.
CT Jay
Bronze Member
If it's not a good idea to leave a battery on a charger past the point where it's fully charged (either trickle or auto-sensor) then how come our alternators don't slowly kill our batteries when we're running our tractors (or cars, for that matter) all day.
Is there circuitry in the alternator that senses a full battery and stops feeding to it?
I don't know a thing about chargers and what's inside them, but I have a walk-behind self-propelled golf cart that uses a deep-discharge 12V battery and comes with a special charger that the manufacturer says to use not only to re-charge the battery after playing 18 holes, but that it's perfectly OK to keep the battery on the charger all winter long, not disconnecting it, nor using the battery at all....for months straight.
Maybe it's a unique kind of charger.......and maybe it's got something to do with the design for a deep discharge battery.......but I've done this now for maybe 15 years, and I'm only on my 3rd battery now.
Like I say, I have no clue about any of this.
Is there circuitry in the alternator that senses a full battery and stops feeding to it?
I don't know a thing about chargers and what's inside them, but I have a walk-behind self-propelled golf cart that uses a deep-discharge 12V battery and comes with a special charger that the manufacturer says to use not only to re-charge the battery after playing 18 holes, but that it's perfectly OK to keep the battery on the charger all winter long, not disconnecting it, nor using the battery at all....for months straight.
Maybe it's a unique kind of charger.......and maybe it's got something to do with the design for a deep discharge battery.......but I've done this now for maybe 15 years, and I'm only on my 3rd battery now.
Like I say, I have no clue about any of this.
BobRip
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I have chargers that I leave on all of the time. One has been on the same battery for about 10 years and the generator still starts fine. I hope I am not ruining that battery. I have grown to love it over the past decade.
The old trickle chargers would dry out the battery and ruin it. The always sent some charge to the battery. The float "smart" chargers do a good job of protecting the battery. On the other hand letting a battery fully discharge may ruin it immediately, and will certainly reduce its life.
Alternators do regulate their charge. They never put out full current to the battery and taper down when the battery is fully charged.
