[DeTomaso] charging an Optima Battery help

[Jerry R Knotts]

I have an acomputerized  type charger and I use "Jell" setting rather than 
"Wet" or "Marine".  When I have used the older chargers I set it to 2 amps 
and the equivilant of "Wet" and it gradually stabilizes.  After a while you 
can turn it up to 10 amps, but it takes awhile.
They also don't jump very well.

Best of luck,
jerry knotts

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From: <JJD1010 at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:47 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] charging an Optima Battery help


> Another stranded Pantera story, it seems the Pantera sat too long and 
> there
> isn't enough juice to start the car. I attached my charger and plugged it 
> in
> on the 12V setting. The charger acted really funny and made noise, sort of 
> a
> humm. The gauge on the charger would peg all the way up and then after 
> several
> seconds all the way down. It kept going all the way up and all the way 
> down
> several times and I turned it off.
>
> Then I switched the charger to 6V, turned it back on and it is acting 
> normal
> and reading about 2/3 the way up.
>
> Will an Optima charge at 6V?
>
> Any Ideas why the 12V charge was acting so strange?
>
> AutoRama starts tomorrow so I'm kind of in a panic. Thanks for any
> suggestions you might have.
>
> Jeff
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