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If you charge off your alt, you could drain too much, and not be able to fully charge them again or drop voltage, that would be one thing that strikes up in my mind
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I only ave one battery charger and it will not fully charge my battery rack. Before every major competition I charge my betteries seperately starting a week before jus to make sure their all top notch.
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For the big classes with lots of amps then the more batts the better... you're going to be able to get more current from more batteries then could be useful from an alt. In a lower class with current demands in the 600 amp and under range then you will likely notice a drop in spl if you depend on the alt to provide some of the current to the amps. Each battery you add will require a certain amount of amperage from the alt just to charge the batts you added.
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Bah! Dont listen to Scottie, he doesnt know what hes talking about
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That charger should be more than capable. I charge 24 Exide 4800's with a 25 amp Turbo Start without a problem. Are you sure you don't have some bad cells?
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That charger should charge your bank with no problems. From what I've seen you cant hook two chargers up to the same bank of batteries... electricly they might as well be hooked together and I would say they dont like that very much. I used a Sears charger to charge all 36 of the Optimas in the white van with no problems at all... it would take a couple days, but eventually it would get the job done.
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quote:Originally posted by Tim Dunham: Are you sure you don't have some bad cells?
I unhooked them all and let them sit and all the voltages were within .05. At least they were back when I checked. It has been a while since I have done anything with them. However, they have NOT been load tested.
Thank you guys for the replies.
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maybe explain the problem your having and then someone would have a little more insight?
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alan if your charging through a long exstention cord and not at least a 14 gauge or bigger then your hurting yourself! my charger will not get the batts up Unless I have a 25 ft cord or shorter and i have a 12-2 size cord!
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we have also been at shows where several chargers charging several vehicles at the same timeon the same circuit, this causes the amperage for each charger to go down. The voltage would still show the same but the amperage goes way down including the score.
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