[chbot] Have I killed my bot battery?

[John Tiler]

perhaps. If its a 12V sla try a car battery charger on it, if you do....
Pump it up a bit and then try using ur charger.




>From: Carl Ranson <carl.ranson@paradise.net.nz>
>Reply-To: chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
>To: chbot <chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
>Subject: [chbot] Have I killed my bot battery?
>Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:35:21 +1300
>
>So I left my bot's electronics running on the bench overnight and my
>battery is down to 7 volts (its a 12v SLA)
>
>I've just put it on the charger and nothing happened.
>
>The charger I have is a jaycar one (http://tinyurl.com/ytlhkx) and I
>note that many of the chargers on their website have a note "These
>chargers will not charge a totally flat battery".
>
>Is it possible that 7v is low enough to make the battery non-detectable
>to the charger? Is there any way to trick the charger into detecting it?
>
>thanks team.
>C
>
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