I have a very old battery charger, basically a transformer/rectifier with ampere meter on the front.
I used it several times before the fusebox recall, but that has now totally fixed the occasional flats I had before the fusebox swap.
However I do not use the car everyday and need a charge up during cold weather etc.
Nowadays we have electronic switching chargers with auto trickle on sensing full voltage etc. Is it worthwhile buying one of these for the Civics sealed battery? Or is my old charger good enough?
I see the meter start off at an amp or so on connection and go down to very small current after several hours charging so it must be self compensating as the voltage reaches optimum. I'm just wondering if you electronic experts would regard it as necessarily a bad idea for modern batteries.
thanks
I used it several times before the fusebox recall, but that has now totally fixed the occasional flats I had before the fusebox swap.
However I do not use the car everyday and need a charge up during cold weather etc.
Nowadays we have electronic switching chargers with auto trickle on sensing full voltage etc. Is it worthwhile buying one of these for the Civics sealed battery? Or is my old charger good enough?
I see the meter start off at an amp or so on connection and go down to very small current after several hours charging so it must be self compensating as the voltage reaches optimum. I'm just wondering if you electronic experts would regard it as necessarily a bad idea for modern batteries.
thanks