Help with two 12 volt batteries (parallel)?
#11
Posted 30 August 2018 - 04:38 AM
#12
Posted 30 August 2018 - 04:42 AM
#13
Posted 30 August 2018 - 04:43 AM
OK, well maybe a 12v (nominal output) charger will charge a 6v battery, IDK.
If you pulled the caps and there were only 3 cells on each battery then my money is on them being 6v batts and would use the 2nd diagram I posted.
#14
Posted 30 August 2018 - 11:04 AM
Ordinary battery acid is actually 1/3 concentrated sulfuric acid diluted with 2/3 distilled water. Only the water is lost through evaporation etc. which is why you only add distilled water to batteries. If your cells were dry, that means the liquid in the bottom of the cells was CONCENTRATED sulfuric acid, which will eat away at the lead plates given time. Best case scenario, you've drastically shortened the life of your batteries, worst case scenario you've destroyed them.
Do NOT use a 12 volt charger on a 6 volt battery!
But if you have the two 6 volt batteries wired together in series (a wire between the positive of one and the negative of the other, per the SECOND diagram) You can treat the two of them as one 12 volt battery.
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#15
Posted 30 August 2018 - 12:18 PM
#16
Posted 30 August 2018 - 02:01 PM
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#17
Posted 30 August 2018 - 02:51 PM
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#18
Posted 30 August 2018 - 03:01 PM
Bellbear,
Re the charger:
by way of explanation, I only brought up the charging voltage because at that time the single battery voltage was in question yet the batteries seemed to be have been successfully re charged with a home charger. That brought to my mind the older, automotive chargers I am most familiar with that were either 6v or 12v nominal output. Or some units could do both, but one voltage needed to be selected to use. Sorry if this muddied the waters.
Your charger should be marked with it's output voltage (label?)
And I should have specifically asked or followed up on how exactly you had charged the batts - singly or connected together (if connected, how).
Re the battery voltage.
I should have mentioned that, from what I have gathered, in a camper with 2 batteries, using a 2 x 6v format is commonplace, even to be expected and, some have said, generally better than a 2 x 12v format.
Although you may not remember the exact wiring, you may remember if each battery post had only 1 wire connected to it ?
Everything but the thread title (which prompted me to chime in) suggests the batteries are 6v. Which would mean they should be wired in series as show in my 2nd post. The previous owner may have meant the camper system is 12v, incl the "battery bank" as opposed to the individual batteries.
If in doubt about the battery condition/usable service life, an auto service or battery shop should be able to test them.
Edited by klahanie, 30 August 2018 - 03:08 PM.
#19
Posted 30 August 2018 - 10:43 PM
Reading 11.5 vintage
2.8 current
#20
Posted 30 August 2018 - 10:54 PM
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