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Charging a golf battery with a car charger

  • 19-08-2014 10:46PM
    #1
    JOSman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Left the charger for my golf cart down the country, would it be okay to use a car charger on the golf battery as it will be a few weeks until I can pick up the right charger.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    A trolley battery is a bit different from a car battery in the way it charges, but many car chargers (just not all) will be able to charge a deep cycle battery too. It's something to do with charging stages, a trolley battery charger is 3 stage and some car chargers would be 2 stage.
    I think that's why you can keep a trolley battery plugged in for weeks with the charger only giving it a trickle, but you wouldn't keep a car battery plugged in for weeks.
    I personally wouldn't mess around with it unless I knew what I was doing, which I definitely don't.


  • #3
    JOSman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭JOSman


    Thanks Senna for the advice. Thought there was something different between batteries.

    Friend of mine bought a lithium battery recently and that came with a charger, I think I'll ask him for a loan of his old charger until I get my own back.
    :o


  • #4
    curly from cork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭curly from cork


    Just a word of warning as lithium chargers are different to the regular ones . Certainly you cannot charge your lithium battery with the older chargers , not sure of it's ok in reverse . In error I charged my new lithium battery to my old power caddy charger . When I mentioned it to our golf pro he reckoned I was lucky to have gotten away with it and to have not done any damage.


  • #5
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,360 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    General rule of thumb is you should be safe if the charger charges at about 10% of the batteries capacity. So if you have a 30 Ah battery a 3 or 5 Amp charger should be fine for 10 hours.


  • #6
    JOSman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭JOSman


    Hi all,

    Got a loan of an old charger from a friend.

    Just to let you know that my motorcycle charger didn't/couldn't charge the golf battery (lead acid). Car charger did but went very hot.

    I think the construction of golf lead acid batteries are designed for a trickle charge.

    Thanks for your replies.

    J


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  • #7
    charlieIRL
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 7,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭charlieIRL


    JOSman wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Got a loan of an old charger from a friend.

    Just to let you know that my motorcycle charger didn't/couldn't charge the golf battery (lead acid). Car charger did but went very hot.

    I think the construction of golf lead acid batteries are designed for a trickle charge.

    Thanks for your replies.

    J

    I have a trickle charger for my motorbike but have never tried it. I also have on from an old RC Car which trickle charges, wonder would that do as back up??


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