Battery floating voltage

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But I did check to FV with the VM and a BD in the drive way. But thanks any way. There seems to be a few people around that know much more about this stuff than you do Piston.

 

Seems Frosty's avatar is getting younger everyday. Reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

I call it equalised after an equalising charge of slightly elevated voltage is applied that allows cells of an unequal voltage to gain full cell voltage and reach saturation. As with saturation this can be determined yourself by the point at which a gain in SG is no longer measurable.
For Frosty that is the point at which the charger goes into float mode.
At that point once the battery is cooled you can an attempt a constant current charge to clean the battery plates.
No this is not good for the battery as you are wasting the plate away, but it is able to break away large sulphate crystal and expose clean plate quickly. A process that can take weeks to achieve by other methods, that still cause wear to battery.
There are also many of us that believe pulse chargers as used in de-sulphate's are not good for batteries either, largely the reason why they don't feature on many big name chargers.
They unfortunate truth is that no Electronic equipment (of real world) has the ability to judge a battery charged. Hence the need to take a SG reading especially before layup and confirm that the sulphate has been transformed back into electrolyte shown by the correct SG reading for that battery.
Same can be said for a new installation, wait until the batteries have been used a few times then check them for the correct Specific Gravity on float. Sealed batteries all you can do is follow the manufacturers recommendations.

 

The truth is that the kind of things that MechaNik talks of are the actions taken when the battery starts to fail .Most of it is fokelore ....As a good friend of mine said who mended giant excavators .."if its f@cked its f@cked replace it"

and you are right Frosty there are always people who think they know more than me ( about batteries ) and some of them are right ....The real people with battery knowledge are the submariners...Now you all have a nice relaxing day..stay cool stay Frosty.