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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | I was poking around the web and came across this advice:
"Like a NiCad battery, a deep cycle marine battery must be "trained" in order to do its job at maximum efficiency levels. Let me give you the guaranteed recipe for disappointment. Take anew, fully charged battery and discharge it slightly. Then, put a light charge on it to top it off. Do that several times in a row and you now have a great big battery with nearly no usable power. The battery has been trained to have a shallow charge memory. Weird, but true. For best results a deep cycle 'battery should be worked hard, discharged heavily and then correctly recharged, fully."
So my practice of plugging in after every trip (24v TM system), even a short 3 hour outing is wrong? I should use the same charge on multiple shorter outings until I see the batteries are notably discharged? |
