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Using Maintenance Free Batteries


K3Z

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  K3Z said:
Is there any cons in using maintenance free batteries?

Are they good?

Sir,

I have never used this maintenance free battery's.They have a history of 30 Years.

If I am not mistaken this battery was first manufactured for Military Aircraft's in USA.

My friends use them they are very satisfied.

Before this post I verified the maintenance free battery Performance by Telephone calling them.

They have used more than for two years they cost over Rupees 20000.00

Above said 3 of my friends have come to me to get their battery charging tested after fitting Maintenance free battery's I found on to my Digital volt meter that the peek voltage at 2000 RPM engine is running is 14 Volts.

When full load comes on on the Vehicle that is Head lights Ac Wipers and Radio voltage get increased to 14.5 Volts.

The normal moving pointer Ammeter comes to + side by 5 Amps.

My advice is if you can effort to go for maintenance free battery and forget about the battery for two to three years.

I change every 12 to 14 months a new lead acid battery which last one cost me Rupees 6500.

Wijesinghe.

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I used a global maintanance free battery for about two years on the honda,...I have no complaints despite some negative rumours going around.

but some battery dealers refuse to stock them now.

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Been using Exide MF's for sometime now. touch wood never had an issue and they give you a warranty and buy back. So long run your better off than going for the Chinese stuff, as IMO a poor battery could hurt your electrical components over time. Only issue is the cost- which is even worse if you got a larger engine car.

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  Elvis_Pil said:
Been using Exide MF's for sometime now. touch wood never had an issue and they give you a warranty and buy back. So long run your better off than going for the Chinese stuff, as IMO a poor battery could hurt your electrical components over time. Only issue is the cost- which is even worse if you got a larger engine car.

to add to this...

investing on a cheap voltmeter and a trickle charger too is good insurance in my experience...

yesterday i did my random check and found out battery was at 12.6v....hooked up the trickle charger overnight and in the morning....it was at 12.9v

I've kept a bike battery un used for over 2.5 years now in pretty good nick thanks to the trickle charger!

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Used a Delphi maintenance free battery for about one and a half years.... the indicator didn't, well, indicate that it had gone bad, but it had. (Left me stuck at home on a Monday morning.) When I went to buy a new one, the shop owner told me that Delphi's had a bad reputation and that they weren't stocking them anymore.

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  Ripper said:
to add to this...

investing on a cheap voltmeter and a trickle charger too is good insurance in my experience...

yesterday i did my random check and found out battery was at 12.6v....hooked up the trickle charger overnight and in the morning....it was at 12.9v

I've kept a bike battery un used for over 2.5 years now in pretty good nick thanks to the trickle charger!

Sir,

Investing on a cheap voltmeter and a trickle charger too is good insurance in my experience...

You are perfectly correct in the Battery trickle charger comment over night charging will extend battery life.

I have had trickle charger experience for thirty years back when we had Diesel Peugeot cars which was a frailer in Srilanka due to difficult starting in the morning most of my friends who had those vehicles I fixed trickle chargers for their cars.

All these chargers were assembled by me with a Transformer and a full wave rectifier to give 2 Amps DC.

Wijesinghe.

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  Sylvi said:
Sir,

Investing on a cheap voltmeter and a trickle charger too is good insurance in my experience...

You are perfectly correct in the Battery trickle charger comment over night charging will extend battery life.

I have had trickle charger experience for thirty years back when we had Diesel Peugeot cars which was a frailer in Srilanka due to difficult starting in the morning most of my friends who had those vehicles I fixed trickle chargers for their cars.

All these chargers were assembled by me with a Transformer and a full wave rectifier to give 2 Amps DC.

Wijesinghe.

From where can I buy a trickle charge in Sri Lanka, and how much does it cost?

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  Sylvi said:
Sir,

Investing on a cheap voltmeter and a trickle charger too is good insurance in my experience...

You are perfectly correct in the Battery trickle charger comment over night charging will extend battery life.

I have had trickle charger experience for thirty years back when we had Diesel Peugeot cars which was a frailer in Srilanka due to difficult starting in the morning most of my friends who had those vehicles I fixed trickle chargers for their cars.

All these chargers were assembled by me with a Transformer and a full wave rectifier to give 2 Amps DC.

Wijesinghe.

Sylvi

The Trickle charger i have is actually a float level charger. meaning that it will get the battery to it's optimal level slowly and then shut off charging and start to slowly "de-charge" it....after draining it a bit...it starts the charging cycle again...

it's kinda simulating a battery in operation...

Az

Dunno if it's available here... bought mine on ebay from a UK based seller and got it shipped down through a friend...

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